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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 (...

In coal country, Catholics testify in favor of Clean Power Plan

December 1, 2017
By Brian Roewe
National Catholic Reporter

It’s ‘a sane program’ worth saving, they say

At public hearings this week in the heart of coal country, local and national Catholic groups argued the moral case for preserving national standards on carbon pollution from power plants.

The hearings, held Nov. 28-29, in Charleston, West...

Muhammad Iqbal and Environmental Ethics

By Ibrahim Özdemir
Acta Via Serica
Vol. 2, No. 2
pp. 87-110
December 2017

Local expert: mitigating climate change is way to practice tikkun olam

November 30, 2017
By Korene Charnofsky Cohen
Arizona Jewish Post

Climate change is happening in the Southwestern United States and across the globe, and Judaism gives us an incentive to address environmental problems, says Gregg Garfin, Ph.D., university director of the Southwest Climate Science Center at the University of Arizona. Garfin presented “The Changing Climate of...

Pope sends videomessage to symposium on "Laudato si"

November 30, 2017
Vatican Radio

Pope Francis has sent a video message to an International Symposium on his ecological encyclical “Laudato si”, entitled, “The care of the common home, a necessary conversion to human ecology.”

The event which is taking place this week in Costa Rica has been organized by the...

The Nature Conservancy and DC's Catholic Archdiocese collaborate on stormwater retention project

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The Nature Conservancy and DC’s Catholic Archdiocese collaborate on stormwater retention project at historic Mount Olivet Cemetery

The Nature Conservancy
November 28, 2017

Green infrastructure project aims to improve water quality in Anacostia River and Chesapeake Bay; will generate stormwater credits for sale in DC’s SRC market...

Indigenous Environmental Activism in Art

November 29, 2017
By Rebecca Rafferty
Rochester City Newspaper

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