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Green Belt Movement Founder Professor Wangari Maathai Honored in Song-Cycle by Japanese Composer

September 20, 2017
Green Belt Movement - U.S. Office

New reports detail how to limit global warming, warn of 'existential' risk from not acting soon

September 19, 2017
By Andy Murdock
UC Newsroom
University of California News

Two new studies released during the United Nations’ Climate Week find that global temperature increases can be limited to the Paris Agreement goal of 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, but cutting back carbon dioxide emissions alone will not be sufficient – and the stakes...

'Holy chow' teaches us to behave politically about food

September 19, 2017
By Donna Schaper
National Catholic Reporter

Whether the issue is city councils and trans fats, fast food jobs for inner-city teens, obesity, diabetes, heart attacks or the fear many have that they (and America) are permanently fat, what we eat matters.

What we put into our body has an impact on our bodies and much, much more. 

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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