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Catholic Energy Ethics: Commitments and Criteria

By Erin Lothes Biviano
College of St. Elizabeth, Morristown, NJ - USA
ebiviano@cse.edu

Relations – 6.1
June 2018

doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.7358/rela-2018-001-loth

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Pope Francis challenges fossil fuel execs to act now

‘There is no time to lose’

By Tony Magliano
National Catholic Reporter
June 29, 2018

Challenging world oil executives to recognize the urgent environmental need to quickly transition from fossil fuel extraction and burning to clean energy production, Pope Francis called them to take to heart that “civilization requires energy, but energy must not...

Climate change is a top spiritual priority for these religious leaders

June 26, 2018
By Juliet Eilperin
Washington Post

ABOARD THE SHIP MORE SPACIOUS THAN THE HEAVENS — Off the island of Spetses, the leader of 300 million Christians worldwide told a group of nearly 200 religious leaders, academics and activists that they needed to move beyond intellectualism when it came to the environment.

Buddhism and ecologically-sustainable living

June 22, 2018
By Paul Grogan
Tibet Sun

The Earth is undoubtedly facing a global environmental crisis. Human activities are changing the climate, melting the glaciers, clearing the forest, exterminating many species, creating antibiotic resistance, polluting our water sources, and moving species into new locations where their success becomes a problem.

Most people are...

How Islam can represent a model for environmental stewardship

June 21, 2018
United Nations Environment Program

The world, not just the UN, is waking up to the power of faith-based organizations (FBOs). How can Islam, and other faiths, contribute to solutions to sustainability and mitigate climate change risks?

Pope Francis took the climate crisis to those who can fix it: oil and gas execs

June 19, 2018
By Veerabhadran Ramanathan, Daniel J. Misleh, and Daniel R. DiLeo
The Hill

Pope Francis recently convened oil and gas corporation executives and investors to share some hard truths about fossil fuels and catastrophic climate change. In doing so, the Holy Father extended the Christian tradition of witnessing challenging truths to the public and influential members...

The week that was: world religious leaders confront climate disruption

June 19, 2018
By Rev. Margaret Bullitt-Jonas
Reviving Creation

Gary Paul Nabhan's Book Tour

Coming Up on Fifty Years Since The First Earth Day (April 1970):

Bring Gary Paul Nabhan—Who Worked at the First Earth Day HQ—to Your Community to Discuss a Half Century of Lessons from “The Radical Center” of Collaborative Community-Based Conservation

Nearly 600 institutions back Catholic Climate Declaration

June 18, 2018
By Brian Roewe
National Catholic Reporter

Close to 600 Catholic institutions have signed the Catholic Climate Declaration, which renews Catholic support for continuing U.S. actions to address climate change despite backpedaling by the Trump administration.

An enormous workshop experience and reflection on Living Laudato Si'

June 15, 2018
By Luke Henkel
Ecojesuit

After spending four days at the Living Laudato Si’ spirituality for action workshop in Bendum, Bukidnon province in the Philippines, I am left with just one word that resonates across my lips, my heart, and my soul.  That word is enormous.

Enormous can refer to much more than quantifiable size: it is a word that describes...

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