Costa Carras

Costa Carras is the President of Hellenic Society for the Protection of Cultural Heritage and Environment

presentation: Cultural Heritage and Environment
category: The Role of Culture

Website: The Hellenic Society for the Protection of the Environment and the Cultural Heritage

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Costas Carras has long experience in a wide range of issues, involving conservation and ecology, religion, culture and politics.
His involvement in conservation and the ecological movement began in 1972 when with his wife Lydia he founded Greece’s leading environmental organization, Elliniki Etairia yia tin Prostasia tou Perivallontos kai tis Politistikis Klironomias (Hellenic Society for the Protection of the Environment and the Cultural Heritage). He served as its first Chairman and was again elected Chairman in April 2001. He has represented Elliniki Etairia in Europa Nostra, the Federation of European Conservation Organizations, since 1973 and has been Vice-President since 1976. He also founded and remains Vice-Chairman of the Society for the Preservation of the Greek Heritage, USA.
He was the organizer of the ground-breaking 1998 meeting on Religion and the Environment in Patmos and took part in subsequent meetings in Ormylia, Halkidiki and Kolymbari in Crete. He served as the Co-Chairman of the British Council of Churches’ Commission on Trinitarian Doctrine. His paper on “The Doctrine of the Trinity in Relation to Political Action and Thought” is published in the volume of papers presented to the Commission. He co-edited “Living Orthodoxy in the Modern World” (SPGU, 1996), which includes the article “The Holy Trinity, the Church and Politics in a Secular World” and which was recently translated and published in Greek. He is an Archon of the Ecumenical Patriarchate. He also served, since its inception in 1978, on the Assembly of the Diocese of Sourozh, Britain, whose Chairmanship he left in 1999.
His published works include “3,000 Years of Greek Identity – Myth or Reality” (1984) and contributions to “Democracy and Civil Society in the Balkans” (1996). He obtained a Double First in Ancient Greek and Latin Literature, and in Philosophy and Ancient History from Trinity College, Oxford.

Address:

Carras Costa

President of the Elliniki Etairia

The Hellenic Society for the Protection of the

Environment and the Cultural Heritage

28, Tripodon Str., Plaka

105 58 Athens

Tel. 003 0 210 3225245

or 003 0 210 3226693

Fax 003 0 210 3225240

e-mail : elet@ellinikietairia.gr

www.ellinikietairia.gr