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Ecuador's Standing Rock? Tanks and Helicopters Deployed Against Indigenous Shuar People

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Ecuador’s Standing Rock? Tanks and Helicopters Deployed Against Indigenous Shuar People Defending Ancestral Territory From Mega-Mining

December 21, 2016
Chakana Chronicles

Standing Rock Sioux - A Model for Protection of Planet and its People

December 21, 2016
By David Schilling, Senior Program Director, Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility
Institute for Human Rights and Business

Standing Rock 'water protectors' dig in for the winter

As winter rages over the Dakotas and temperatures plummet below freezing, NoDAPL protest movement members hold ground.

By Avery White
Al Jazeera
December 20, 2016

RCBWG Releases Summary of Best Practices Survey on Engaging Faith Communities

December 14, 2016
By Jame Schaefer
Society for Conservation Biology

SCB’s Religion and Conservation Biology Working Group (RCBWG) released a summary of the Best Practices Survey of SCB members on engaging faith communities. 

Conducted on behalf of RCBWG from May 31-September 10,...

Best Practices Survey - Promising First Step Toward Developing Guidelines

By Jame Schaefer and Susan Higgins
On behalf of the Religion and Conservation Biology Working Group
Society for Conservation Biology
December 2016
http://conbio.org/images/content_news_blog/RCB+BestPracticesSummary_12.pdf

Rock and a Hard Place

Recent events at Standing Rock spark new questions about sacredness, environment, tribal nation sovereignty

By Rob Enslin
Syracuse University College of Arts & Sciences
December 13, 2016

Pipeline 150 miles from Dakota Access protests leaks 176,000 gallons of oil

December 13, 2016
By Derek Hawkins
Washington Post

A ruptured pipeline has spilled more than 176,000 gallons of crude oil into a hillside and a Little Missouri River tributary about 150 miles west of Cannon Ball, N.D., where thousands of activists have spent months fighting construction of the Dakota Access oil pipeline, state officials said Monday.

Moroccan mosques go solar

600 Moroccan mosques are installing solar to save money and inspire people.

By Diana Madson
Yale Climate Connections
December 12, 2016

In the North African kingdom of Morocco, religion and technology are joining forces on a project that will reduce global-warming pollution.

The goal is to retrofit 600 mosques so they use more clean energy and become more energy...

'This is an awakening': Native Americans find new hope after Standing Rock

For those who left behind communities ravaged by poverty and substance abuse, their time spent at this historic gathering has been transformational

By Julia Carrie Wong
The Guardian
December 8, 2016

How Standing Rock became a site of pilgrimage

December 6, 2016
By Rosalyn R. LaPier
The Conversation

The Army Corps of Engineers, the federal agency responsible for investigating, developing and maintaining water and related environmental resources, recently announced that they would not allow the...

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