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Meet India's 'Water Mother' Who Helped Provide Water to Over 300 villages in Arid Region

December 12, 2017
Telesur

India’s 71-year-old Amla Ruia is called the “Water Mother” for leading a campaign that helped provide water in over 300 villages in the arid desert region of Rajasthan in western India. 

Ruia – who uses traditional water harvesting methods – founded the Aakar Charitable Trust which provides grants to the local rural areas, which are the driest in...

Training in Jewish environmental education for mid-career educators

December 12, 2017
By Maya Mirsky
J. The Jewish News of Northern California

What started as a loose movement of Jewish organic farming and back-to-the-land groups has quickly become a well-established player in Jewish life, especially in the Bay Area: the movement for Jewish Outdoor, Food, Farming & Environmental Education — or JOFEE.

Arctic indigenous leaders tell UK it must do more to combat climate change

December 12, 2017
By Josh Gabbatiss
Independent

Representatives from communities living in the far north urge Government to meet and exceed its commitments

Leaders from three indigenous Arctic communities have called on the UK Government to meet and exceed its commitments under the Paris Climate Agreement.

They have also urged the MPs to only support...

The future of faith and science

Experts predict teamwork to save the planet, getting ready to meet neighbors elsewhere in the universe, mutually beneficial search for truth

By Ed Langlois
Catholic Sentinel
December 11, 2017

To conclude a yearlong series on faith and science, we asked some of our favorite thinkers to ponder the future.

The consensus is that in the centuries-old...

Prioritize holy sites like Bears Ears

December 11, 2017
By Joan Brown
Global Sisters Report

“For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities — God’s eternal power and divine nature — have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse…”
-Romans 20:1

Animated short marries Christian faith with need to protect the environment

December 9, 2017
By Claire Giangravè
Crux

ROME - There’s just something special about animation. Cartoons and computer-animated films have demonstrated time and time again that this medium is not just a success at the box-office, but also in the hearts of children and many adults alike.

Mix that with a powerful Christian undertone, and you’ve got a winner.

Earth Charter and Laudato Si' book launch at Integral Ecology Symposium

December 7, 2017
By Alicia Jimenez
Earth Charter

Earth Charter International is pleased to share its latest publication, the book: ¨Voices of the Earth Charter Initiative responding to Laudato Si’ ¨

Find this publication in this link.

China's Saihanba afforestation community bags UN's top environmental award

December 6, 2017
Global Times

China’s Saihanba afforestation community on Tuesday scooped a prestigious UN environmental award for its outstanding contribution to restoration of degraded landscapes, amid the national efforts to advance ecological civilization.

The announcement about Saihanba afforestation community emerging among top winners of the annual UN Champions of the...

Canada's National Indigenous Federation Backs Ecuadorian Amazon Communities in Lawsuit

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Canada’s National Indigenous Federation Backs Ecuadorian Amazon Communities in Lawsuit to Hold Chevron Accountable for Environmental Damage

Corporate Social Responsibility Newswire
December 6, 2017

Trump drastically cuts national monument sacred to Native Americans

December 4, 2017
By Emily McFarlan Miller
Religion News Service

Most notably, the move on Dec. 4 would shrink the 1.5-million acre Bears Ears National Monument in southern Utah, considered sacred by a number of Native American tribes, by 85 percent, according to plans leaked ahead of the announcement. It would divide it into two smaller areas — Indian Creek and Shash Jaa (...

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