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Religious communities are taking on climate change (Greening the gospel)

September 18, 2017
By Sarah Tory
High Country News

Churches that have long played a role in social justice are stepping up. 

Indigenous Activists to Receive Awards for Protecting the Environment

September 16, 2017
Telesur

Indigenous activists from across the globe will receive the Equator Prize at a ceremony in New York on Sunday.

The international award recognizes exceptional local solutions for people, nature and resilient communities.

The Prize focuses “on local and indigenous groups in rural areas that have developed innovative solutions to protecting,...

World Confucian Conference to open in Qufu

September 15, 2017
China Daily

The Eighth World Confucian Conference will be held in Qufu, the hometown of Confucius, from Sept 20 to 21, themed “Confucianism and a community of shared future for mankind”, according to a press conference that convened on Sept 11 in Jinan.

The Window Is Closing to Avoid Dangerous Global Warming

September 15, 2017
By Jean Chemnick, ClimateWire
E&E News
Scientific American

There’s a 50 percent chance that temperatures will rise 4 degrees Celsius under a business-as-usual scenario

Deadly climate change could threaten most of the world’s human population by the end of this century without efforts well beyond those captured in the Paris Agreement...

India's Yamuna River Now Enjoys Legal Personhood. Will That Be Enough to Clean It Up?

Conservationists warn that the Yamuna may already be dead

By Pia Peterson and Thea Piltzecker
Sierra Magazine
September 14, 2017

New tool to use Laudato Si' to measure, rank nations' development

September 14, 2017
By George Rodriguez, Catholic News Service
National Catholic Reporter

San Jose, Costa Rica — A Catholic university, the Joseph Ratzinger-Benedict XVI Vatican Foundation and a Latin American foundation working on sustainable development have developed a tool to measure and rank countries’ efforts in human and environmental development.

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Daring to Dream: Religion and the Future of the Earth

By Mary Evelyn Tucker and John Grim

The Interfaith Observer

September 14, 2017

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Stop talking right now about the threat of climate change. It's here; it's happening

Hurricane Harvey, Hurricane Irma, flash fires, droughts: all of them tell us one thing – we need to stand up to the fossil fuel industry and fast

By Bill McKibben
The Guardian
September 11, 2017

For the sake of keeping things manageable, let’s confine the discussion to a single continent and a single week: North America over the last seven days.

Amazonian locals key to saving "lungs of the planet" says study

September 12, 2017
By Chris Arsenault
Reuters

TORONTO (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Locals are more effective than governments in protecting the world’s largest rainforest, a study said on Tuesday, amid efforts to crackdown on soaring illegal deforestation.

Ranching and logging are rapidly destroying forests that have been home for centuries to indigenous communities...

Global Peace Project: Netherlands and India come together for Peace and Water

September 12, 2017
By Sarwar alam
Eastern Eye

The Global Peace Project held in Netherlands today brought together Interfaith Leaders from across the world, especially from the Netherlands and India, for world peace and water.

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