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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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Earth Charter Panel at the Parliament of the World's Religions, Toronto, Canada

November 20, 2018
Earth Charter Initiative

China shows wisdom of biodiversity conservation on UN conference

November 19, 2018
Xinhua

SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt – When the delegates look at the schedule of the 14th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD COP 14), they will find Chinese wisdom to the global biodiversity conservation.

Indigenous peoples defend Earth's biodiversity—but they're in danger

November 16, 2018
By Gleb Raygorodetsky
National Geographic Society

Comprising less than 5% of the world’s population, indigenous people protect 80% of global biodiversity. Their role is under discussion by world leaders this week. 

In global climate, see the forest and trees

November 13, 2018
By Joan Brown
Global Sisters Report

As thousands of people met, planned, discussed and took part in happy hours in San Francisco on Sept. 12 at the beginning of the Global Climate Action Summit, I sat in the vaulted sanctuary of Grace Episcopal Cathedral with hundreds of people for two...

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