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Eco-padyatra to Buddhist sites to focus on environment

October 17, 2018
Orissa Post

Bhubaneswar: An Eco Pad Yatra will be organised to heritage sites of Buddhism in the state to create awareness about conserving the environment.

The Yatra will be organised by the Drukpa Lineage, and led by Drukpa Thuksey Rinpoche, the present Gyalwang Drukpa and the 12thincarnation of the founder of the Drukpa Lineage.

The...

'Literally life and death': Indigenous climate leaders critical of Canada's response

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‘Literally life and death’: Indigenous climate leaders critical of Canada’s response to climate change report

By Justin Brake
Aboriginal Peoples Television Network
October 17, 2018

Indigenous climate leaders in Canada say parliament’s emergency debate on climate change Monday evening was necessary but inadequate.

To Protect the Environment, Buddhist Monks Are Ordaining Trees

October 11, 2018
By August Rick
Sojourners

Traveling from several provinces across the heavily logged Cambodian landscape, two dozen Buddhist monks met at a local pagoda last October to attend a workshop held by The Alliance of Religions and Conservation. For Cambodia’s emerging network of “ecology monks” working in an increasingly authoritarian climate, the meeting was a...

USU examines religion, environment with 'God and Smog' symposium

October 10, 2018
By Kevin Opsahl
Herald Journal News

At the start of the first-ever “God and Smog Symposium” at Utah State University on Wednesday, the school’s director of religious studies, Ravi Gupta, asked participants to look out out the window of Huntsman Hall.

The huge windows facing Highway 89 provide sweeping views of trees with colorful autumn leaves and the...

Catholics urge action as UN report forecasts climate crisis in coming decades

October 10, 2018
By Brian Roewe and Chris Herlinger
National Catholic Reporter

Halting future global crisis requires unprecedented but doable action, experts say

The global community finds itself at a “can’t-fail moment,” United Nations officials said with the release of a major report that foresees an ecosystem-altering climate crisis mere decades away that...

Ties of blood

October 9, 2018
By Kandi White, Earth Island Journal
Nation of Change

Our deep and abiding connection with Mother Earth is what compels us to fight to protect it.

I’m a Mandan, Hidatsa, Arikara woman who grew up in a small rural community in North Dakota on what is known today as the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation. My Hidatsa name is Eagle Woman; my English...

At Season of Creation's end, know this: Climate change is here

October 4, 2018
By James Hug
National Catholic Reporter

As the liturgical Season of Creation for 2018 draws to a close, the serious need for prayer, study and widespread action in response to the destructive threats of climate change has...

Kenneth Kraft Obituary

Kenneth Kraft Obituary

July 16, 1949 – October 1, 2018

 

Kenneth Kraft, professor of Buddhist studies and Japanese religions and author of several books on contemporary Buddhism, died on October 1 at his home in Haverford, PA. He was 69.

The cause of death was cancer, his family said.

Civil rights leader William Barber awarded MacArthur grant

October 4, 2018
By Erin Durkin
The Guardian

Organization gives ‘genius’ grant to Barber, saying ‘he is effective at building unusually inclusive fusion coalitions’


The Rev William Barber, the North Carolina pastor, national civil rights leader and anti-poverty activist has won a...

'Guardians of the forest:' Indigenous peoples come together to assert role in climate stability

October 2, 2018
By Justin Catanoso
Mongabay

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