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Religious leaders mobilize to protect indigenous people and forests

May 2, 2018
By Willie Shubert
Mongabay

Reading the Quran Connects Me to Nature

May 1, 2018
By Jai Hamid Bashir
Sierra Club

A Radical Alliance of Black and Green Could Save the World

But first the two movements will have to rediscover their shared roots in a fundamental critique of an economy and a society that value things more than lives

By James Gustave Speth and J. Phillip Thompson III

The Environmental Forum
Environmental Law Institute
May/June 2018
 
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Mormon environmentalist conveys ecological message through fiction

April 30, 2018
By Jana Riess
Religion News Service

The phrase “Mormon environmentalist” is not one you hear every day, given that Mormons in the United States are often politically conservative. But Utah resident George Handley is exactly that – committed to both the Mormon faith and to rescuing the environment.

'Catholics Are Still In' campaign recommits support for Paris climate pact

April 30, 2018
By Brian Roewe
National Catholic Reporter

As federal steps to curb climate change wane in the United States, a new campaign looks to add a loud and broad Catholic voice to a nationwide reassertion of American commitment to the international pact to address a warming world.

7 arrested as faith leaders protest Trans Mountain pipeline expansion in Burnaby

April 28, 2018
By Chad Pawson  
CBC News

Leaders from a broad spectrum of religious faiths stood with Indigenous people at a Kinder Morgan work site in Burnaby, B.C., on Saturday to protest the expansion of the Trans Mountain pipeline.

Forum on ecological civilization mulls China's role in way forward

April 27, 2018
Xinhua Net

CLAREMONT, the United States – The 12th International Forum on Ecological Civilization, an initiative to create and promote new modes of development in China and the West, kicked off in Claremont, Southern California, Friday.

Themed “Ecological Civilization and Symbiotic Development”, the two-day conference is hosted by the Institute for Postmodern...

Native Knowledge: What Ecologists Are Learning from Indigenous People

April 26, 2018
By Jim Robbins
Yale Environment 360

From Alaska to Australia, scientists are turning to the knowledge of traditional people for a deeper understanding of the natural world. What they are learning is helping them discover more about everything from melting Arctic ice, to protecting fish stocks, to controlling wildfires.

Water unites us, so make it available to all

April 24, 2018
By Alex Mikulich
National Catholic Reporter

Water literally is both the gift of life and a threat of death. In my home of New Orleans and many places like it throughout the world, we know too well the death-dealing power of water. While we have spent billions to build a levee system to protect people and buildings, the failure to rebuild aging sewerage...

Church teaching leads Catholic entities to divest from fossil fuels

April 23, 2018
By Dennis Sadowski
Crux

A wind turbine turns in front of a fossil fuel power plant in Charlestown, Mass., in this 2013 file photo. Catholic institutions are planning to divest part of their financial portfolios from the fossil fuel industry because of its impact on climate change. (Credit: Brian Snyder/Reuters via CNS.)

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