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AME Church Adopts Climate Resolution

Call for Urgent Action on Climate Change Passed at 50th General Conference

Blessed Tomorrow
July 13, 2016

Defending lands, indigenous group fights dams in Brazil's Amazon

The Munduruku indigenous people are resisting hydroelectric dams on the Tapajós River, a major Amazon tributary. The hydropower, touted as green, would destroy forests - and could even increase greenhouse gas emissions.

DW
July 13, 2016

Indigenous leader Geraldo Krixi Munduruku has problems sleeping at night. At 58, he feels again the fear he knew in 1989, when he had heard...

Sisters of Earth convention brings together women committed to caring for the planet

July 12, 2016
By Mandy Erickson
Global Sisters Report

Colonization has not ended, said speakers at the July 7-10 Sisters of Earth convention: Governments and industries are still taking land from indigenous people, largely destroying ecosystems for profit.

Buddhist monks buy 600lbs of lobster to release them back into the ocean

The monks, who live on the Canadian fishing island, said the purpose of the mission was to ‘cultivate compassion’ for all human beings

By Rachael Pells
Independent
July 10, 2016

More than 600 pounds (272kg) of lobsters have been spared the pot thanks to a liberation project arranged by a group of Buddhist monks in Canada.

The monks, from the Great Enlightenment...

Biblical animal prophecy reveals ecology is all about peace

July 11, 2016
By Donna Schaper
National Catholic Reporter

The prophet Isaiah spoke about the promise of universal peace in this way: 

Here's A Look At How Catholic Churches Are Taking Pope Francis' Climate Encyclical To Heart

July 11, 2016
By Sydney Pereira
Think Progress

Laudato Si' and Care for Our Common Home: What Does it Mean for the Legal Professional?

By Lucia Ann Silecchia

6 Seattle J. of Envtl. L. 1 (2016); CUA Columbus School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2016-6.

How Buddhist monks are battling deforestation in Cambodia

July 7, 2016
By Ate Hoekstra, Phnom Penh
Deutsche Welle

Cambodia has one of the world’s highest deforestation rates. But a group of Buddhist monks are stepping up efforts to save forests by publicly revealing wrongdoings and mobilizing local villagers. Ate Hoekstra reports.

Illegal gold mining causing mercury contamination in indigenous groups

July 7, 2016
By Carolina Torres
Mongabay

Research finds high, unsafe levels of mercury contamination in Brazil’s Yanomami and Ye’kuana peoples, almost certainly due to illegal gold mining on indigenous lands in the Amazon.

Voices for Earth Justice Newsletter

July 2016

In this issue, you can read the following story:


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