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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...

Veterans apologize to Indigenous on behalf of U.S. Army at Standing Rock

December 7, 2016
By Amanda Froelich
Nation of Change

Today, hundreds of veterans from across the United States took a knee and begged for forgiveness for crimes committed toward indigenous people in the name of the U.S. military.

Why Standing Rock Is About Way More Than a Pipeline

December 7, 2016
By Jordan Chariton
Mediaite

Growing up in a land of white privilege on Long Island, I had it fairly good. I wasn’t rich nor poor; I was middle class with two loving, working parents.

Neither my family nor tribe of relatives were slaughtered; my land wasn’t stolen in the name of another race and class colonizing their own country from the burnt ashes of...

Rowan Williams Keynote Speaker at 2018 Yale Liturgy Conference

December 5, 2016
Yale University Institute of Sacred Music

Yale Institute of Sacred Music (ISM) has announced that Rowan Williams, the former Archbishop of Canterbury, will be the keynote speaker at the fifth international liturgy conference at Yale University, to be held June 18 – 21, 2018.  The theme of the conference is “Full of Your Glory: Liturgy, Cosmos, Creation.”

'Would you go and tear up St. Peter's in Rome?'

December 6, 2016
By Maureen Fiedler  
National Catholic Reporter

While Eyes Were On Standing Rock, The Dakota Pipeline Was Being Drilled Under Another Water Source

December 6, 2016
By Adele Peters  
Fast Co.Exist

While the pipeline may have been halted in North Dakota, construction workers just finished drilling under the Des Moines River, which supplies the water for half a million people in Iowa.

The Dakota Access Pipeline and the Doctrine of Native Genocide

December 6, 2016
By Tim Scott
Truthout

New MAPTING App Launched to Increase Youth Participation in Achieving Sustainable Development Goals

December 5, 2016
Soka Gakkai International (SGI)

Tokyo: A new app has been created to track and map activities that contribute to actualizing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) set out in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development launched at the UN in September of last year.

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