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Carbon Dividend Act gets support from head of bishops' justice office

January 29, 2019
By Brian Roewe
National Catholic Reporter

A bipartisan bill aiming to place a price on carbon emissions represents “a hopeful sign” that legislators are taking climate change seriously, said the head of the U.S. bishops’ domestic justice office.

"Engendering Nature" - Special Issue of the Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture

Using Art to Explore Indigenous Rights, Activism and Environment

January 24, 2019
By Dorothy Woodend
The Tyee

Sprawling UBC exhibition is powerful, diverse and compelling

“A sharing economy loses out to a taking economy because, when the takers have done their thing, there is not much left to share.” — George Manuel, The Fourth World: An Indian Reality

2019 Earth Day Program by the Catholic Climate Covenant

Have you made your plans to celebrate Earth Day 2019? 

A community in Guyana relies on indigenous knowledge in conservation

January 24, 2019
By Akola Thompson
Mongabay

Saugeen Ojibway Nation confronts effects of climate change on whitefish fishery

January 20, 2019
By Rhiannon Johnson
CBC News

The fishing communities of Saugeen First Nation and Chippewas of Nawash are finding higher winds and warmer temperatures are affecting populations of lake whitefish in Lake Huron and Georgian Bay, which many rely on for their livelihoods.

The fishing communities of Saugeen First Nation and Chippewas of Nawash are finding ...

Ethiopia's 'church forests' are incredible oases of green

January 18, 2019
By Alejandra Borunda
National Geographic

View the photos with this story here.

The women fighting a pipeline that could destroy precious wildlife

January 16, 2019
By Joe Whittle
The Guardian

Deep within the humid green heart of the largest river swamp in North America, a battle is being waged over the future of the most precious resource of all: water.

On one side of the conflict is a small band of rugged and ragtag activists led by Indigenous matriarchs. On the other side is the relentless machinery of the...

To work toward a just society, we need a Green New Deal

January 11, 2019
By Alex Mikulich  
National Catholic Reporter

Among the many initiatives that offer real hope for the future as the new Congress begins its work in 2019, a Green New Deal is the most timely and hopeful. A Green New Deal is a critical way to practice ecological solidarity in the spirit and word of “Laudato Si’, on Care for Our Common Home” and create...

One synagogue divests from a Carbon Pharaoh Bank

January 9, 2019
The Shalom Center

A chronology of divestment

The process by which one Jewish congregation divested its holdings in fossil fuels

By Members of Kolot Chayyeinu

[This essay begins a series of Shalom Reports on how individual congregations can act to heal their neighborhoods from the Carbon-...

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