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Catholic groups push for strong climate deal at U.N. summit in Poland

December 10, 2018
By Jonathan Luxmoore, Catholic News Service
National Catholic Reporter

Catholic representatives worked to keep negotiations on track for a comprehensive deal to address global warming as the U.N. climate change conference entered its second and final week in Katowice, Poland.

How Climate Change Is Driving Central American Migrants to the United States

December 8, 2018
By Gus Bova
Texas Observer

In the poor, violent Northern Triangle of El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala, worsening floods, drought and storms are pushing a growing number of migrants north.

Donald Trump thinks there’s an immigration crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border. He has no idea what’s coming.

Pilgrims march to demand action on climate change

December 7, 2018
By Todd Dagwell
MNnews

A group of pilgrims from all over the world is preparing to enter the city of Katowice, Poland, to bring climate disruption to the attention of world leaders meeting for the 24th Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP24).

Shaping New Climate Narratives: Why a Journalist/Historian Turned to Theatre for Climate Stories

December 6, 2018
By Jeff Biggers
Artists and Climate Change

Earlier this year, taking a front row seat at a church in Gary, Indiana, I watched as a young rapper, local food leader and an arts educator beguiled a standing-room-only audience with a theatrical envisioning of their city in the year 2030.

To the side of the stage, jazz legend Billy Foster and his trio added...

Exploring the Dharmic Way to Think About Climate Change

Dharma is the fabric of a healthy, sane, sustaining and nurturing ecology.

By Christopher L. Fici
The Wire
December 4, 2018

Can we live in a world without a Sabbath?

November 29, 2018
By Norman Wirzba
ABC Religion and Ethics

Who is the human being, the anthropos (to use the Greek term), that now defines and determines the world? Do humanity’s world-shaping powers compel a rethinking of “the human” as such?

Matri Bhumi Eco-Learning Centre Opens in Bodh Gaya, India

November 28, 2018
By Raymond Lam
Buddhistdoor Global

The Matri Bhumi Eco-Learning Centre opened in Bodh Gaya this month with an inauguration on 14 November that was attended by Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche, Nangzey Dorje of the Bodh Gaya Temple Management Committee, and Sister Shobha of Pragya Vihar School.

International and local guests attended the inauguration, including...

Interfaith Rainforest Initiative Launched to Protect Colombian Rainforest, Indigenous Peoples

November 29, 2018
By Catherine Benson Wahlén
IISD’s SDG Knowledge Hub

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Northwest Tribal Leaders Testify in Opposition to Canadian Pipeline Expansion

November 28, 2018
Earthjustice

WASHINGTON - Opposition to the Trans Mountain pipeline from Coast Salish Tribes on both sides of the U.S.-Canada border continued today with indigenous people of the Salish Sea region testifying before the Canadian National Energy Board. Four U.S. Coast Salish Tribes — the Swinomish Indian Tribal Community, Tulalip Tribes, Lummi Nation, and Suquamish...

How Extreme Weather Is Shrinking the Planet

November 26, 2018
By Bill McKibben
The New Yorker

With wildfires, heat waves, and rising sea levels, large tracts of the earth are at risk of becoming uninhabitable. But the fossil-fuel industry continues its assault on the facts.

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