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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

China's endeavor to build clean, beautiful country contributes to global ecological development

December 18, 2017
Global Times

China’s endeavor to build itself into a beautiful country, which has been defined by President Xi Jinping as a goal to be met by 2035, contributes to promoting ecological development for the world and has won acclamations from the international community.

Adding dimension to domestic policy

The Ecology of Prayer

December 2017
By Fred Bahnson
Orion Magazine

for David James Duncan


I. The Outer Banks

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.

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