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McKibben talks climate change

October 11, 2017
By Chloe Glass
Yale Daily News

Award-winning author and environmental activist Bill McKibben addressed a crowd in Woolsey Hall Tuesday afternoon about the quickening pace of climate change and the ways citizens can work together to fight back.

For Native Americans, a river is more than a 'person,' it is also a sacred place

October 8, 2017
By Rosalyn R. LaPier
The Conversation

The environmental group Deep Green Resistance recently filed a first-of-its-kind legal suit against the state of Colorado...

Pope Francis emphasises need to care for oceans in message to Our Oceans Conference

October 6, 2017
By Massimo Costa
Malta Today

Pope Francis calls oceans “the common heritage of the human family” in letter to participants of ‘Our Ocean’ conference being held in Malta

In a letter addressed to the participants of the ‘Our Ocean’ conference, which is currently underway, Pope Francis encouraged efforts to deal with various pressing issues which...

The Challenge of Creating 'Ecological Civilization' in China

October 5, 2017
By Mary Evelyn Tucker
Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies

Marking the Feast of St. Francis of Assisi with the spirit of Standing Rock

October 5, 2017
By Eileen Markey
America Magazine

Clergy of many faiths from across the United States participate in a prayer circle on Nov. 3, 2016, in front of a bridge in Standing Rock, N.D., where demonstrators confront police during a protest of the Dakota Access pipeline. (CNS photo/Stephanie Keith, Reuters)

Notching a 'Victory' for our common home

October 4, 2017
By Brian Fraga
Our Sunday Visitor Newsweekly

Sisters leave a legacy by acting on the ecological call of Pope Francis and preserving their land forever

China to establish ecological civilization demonstration zones in Jiangxi, Guizhou

October 4, 2017  
The State Council of the People’s Republic of China

The general offices of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and the State Council jointly released plans to set up ecological civilization demonstration zones in Jiangxi and Guizhou provinces.

According to the plans, a systematic and complete ecological civilization system will be built in the...

'The Dreaming' links with creation

October 3, 2017
By Karan Varker
Global Sisters Report

Assisi diocese among 40 Catholic groups to divest from fossil fuels

October 3, 2017
By Brian Roewe
National Catholic Reporter

On the eve of the Feast of St. Francis, Assisi is cutting financial ties with fossil fuels.

The Italian diocese encompassing the region Francis of Assisi called home joined more than three dozen Catholic groups in marking the patron saint of ecology’s feast day (Oct. 4) by divesting from fossil fuel companies....

Hindu festival chokes Indian waterways with flowers and idol debris

October 3, 2017
By Michael Safi
The Guardian

Environmentalists say holy ceremonies such as 10-day Durga Puja overwhelming already polluted Yamuna river

Sections of a major river in Delhi are choking with plastic, flowers and debris after an annual Hindu festival in which hundreds of idols were immersed in...

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