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Pope to hear from indigenous about ministry, land rights in Chile, Peru

January 3, 2018
By Barbara J. Fraser
National Catholic Reporter

TEMUCO, Chile — Sergio Catalaf’s son was just 3 days old when police arrested the Mapuche Indian leader, accusing him of terrorism. He and 10 other Mapuche leaders spent 14 months in preventive detention before being acquitted in October of setting fire to a farmhouse in which an elderly couple...

UN intervention needed to protect indigenous mountain cultures

December 31, 2017
By Haares Munir
Daily Times

‘Food and Agricultural Organisation Pakistan shall gear up and lead a Sustainable Mountain Development agenda,’ says Founding Director Pakistan Mountain Festival Munir Ahmed

The Ecological Citizen: A peer-reviewed ecocentric journal

Vol 1, No 2 (January 2018)

Read the issue online here.

Philosophy Activism Nature (PAN) Journal

Issue Number 13, 2017

Read the issue online here:

http://panjournal.net/issues/13

 

Hybrid system can conserve sacred forests

December 27, 2017
By Maundu Muli
Daily Nation

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Climate change in Lapland: The impact of global warming in the land of Santa Claus

December 23, 2017
By Josh Gabbatiss
Independent

Environmental changes in the far north are having disastrous effects on the region’s indigenous people and tourism industry 

Lapland occupies a happy space in the popular imagination as a winter wonderland, occupied by reindeer, elves and Father Christmas...

Dr. King's Interconnected World

December 22, 2017
By Drew Dellinger
New York Times

The Movement to Divest from Fossil Fuels Gains Momentum

December 21, 2017
By Bill McKibben
The New Yorker

Braiding Science Together with Indigenous Knowledge

It’s the best recipe for preserving a healthy planet

By Gleb Raygorodetsky
Scientific American
December 21, 2017

“The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.”

                        —Albert Einstein

Integral Ecology Class Challenges Students from Three Campuses

December 20, 2017
Holy Cross College

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