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Recycling center in Brooklyn creates community while serving those in need

July 25, 2016
By Gail DeGeorge
Global Sisters Report

Her gloved hands deep in buckets of fruit pieces, vegetable peels and other food dreck, Sr. Ana Martinez de Luco flashes a smile as she mixes what will become Sure We Can’s own brand of compost.

'World can't afford to silence us': black church leaders address climate change

One of the largest and oldest black churches in the US warns that black people are disproportionally harmed by global warming and fossil fuel pollution

By Oliver Milman
The Guardian
July 24, 2016

African American religious leaders have added their weight to calls for action on climate change, with one of the largest and oldest black churches in the US warning that black...

'Social Love' as a Vision for Environmental Law: Laudato Si' and the Rule of Law

By Lucia Ann Silecchia

10 Liberty University Law Review 371 (2016)

The Unfolding Story of the Universe: A Conversation with Mary Evelyn Tucker and Julianne Warren

July 20, 2016
By Sam Mowe
Garrison Institute

Rising temperatures drying up history, one lake at a time

July 20, 2016
By Daksha Rangan
The Weather Network

For urban dwellers and suburbanites, the changing pace of global weather patterns might only be cause for concern when minor anomalies take place – a snowless winter, dry spring, or cooler summer, for example.

But for rural residents – namely, some of the world’s indigenous communities – earth’s rising temperatures...

Laudato Si' and the liturgical work ahead

July 19, 2016
By James Hug
National Catholic Reporter

Tibetan monk who went beyond religion

July 19, 2016
By Balan Moses
Malay Mail Online

KUALA LUMPUR, July 19 — A Tibetan Buddhist leader in exile is changing the face of the ancient religion with a power-packed agenda that aims to improve the lives, and environment, of the people he constantly prays for.

Drikung Kyabgon Chetsang, who established the Drikung Kagyu seat in exile in Dehra Dun, India, after...

Green Churches Newsletter

July 2016

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Canada plans to lean on Indigenous knowledge to combat climate change

July 14, 2016
By Delaney Windigo
Aboriginal Peoples Television Network National News

NIAGARA FALLS – For far too long governments ignored the warnings from elders.

Elders who could see shift in climate.

Ice beneath their feet thinner, more forest fires and temperatures rising.

The elders saw it but no one was listening according to Environment and...

AME Church: Climate change disproportionately hurts blacks

July 14, 2016
By Adelle M. Banks
Religion News Service

African Methodist Episcopal Church members have joined the call of other religious leaders for action on climate change, citing its disproportionate effect on the health of black people.

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