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A Buddhist tradition guides seekers to live in harmony with nature

March 6, 2016
By Manjula Narayan
Hindustan Times

It’s -19 degrees C and you are trudging back to the hotel after a sumptuous thukpa dinner at the Amdo Tibetan restaurant on Leh’s main market street. Your companions are much younger, not given to wheezing as they traverse the frigid streets, not given even to the debilitating episode of altitude sickness that kept you in bed...

Cardinal Turkson addresses GR 2030 on Catholic social teaching, integral ecology

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Cardinal Turkson addresses GR 2030 on Catholic social teaching, integral ecology, sustainable development

Independent Catholic News
March 6, 2016

The President of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, Cardinal Peter Turkson, delivered an address to the Global Responsibility 2030 conference meeting in Bad Honnef, Germany on...

Theologian contemplates environment and spirituality

March 3, 2016
By Pat Johnson
Vancouver Courier

The ecological crisis is a spiritual crisis, says a renowned theologian coming to Vancouver this weekend.

Douglas Christie, a professor of theological studies at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, blames environmental degradation on human habits of consumption and a lack of feeling for other living beings,...

Interfaith community to discuss protection of coastal waters

March 3, 2016
By Rick Snizek, Editor
Rhode Island Catholic

PROVIDENCE — Draped in hidden splendor beneath the shimmering blue waters of the Atlantic Ocean lie gorges deeper than the Grand Canyon and mountain peaks as tall as the Rockies.

In an area known as Cashes Ledge, located about 80 miles east of Cape Ann, Massachusetts, scientists continue to identify new species...

Murder of Honduran environmental activist sparks outrage

March 4, 2016
By David Agren
Catholic News Service

MEXICO CITY (CNS) – An outspoken environmental activist in Honduras was murdered in her own home, sparking outrage and offering another example of the impunity and violence in the Central American country.

Muftis in Perlis Issue a Fatwa against Pollution

March 2, 2016
Clean Malaysia

Christian Monastic Lands as Protected Landscapes and Community Conserved Areas: An Overview

By Josep-Maria Mallarach, Josep Corcó and Thymio Papayannis
Parks 22, no.1 (March 2016): 63-78.
http://parksjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/PARKS-22.1-Mallarach-et-al-10.2305IUCN.CH_.2016.PARKS-22-1JMM.en_.pdf

An Integrating Story for a Sustainable Future: A Way toward New Human-Earth Relations

March 2016
By Brian Swimme and Mary Evelyn Tucker
Center for Humans and Nature

Southern African Faith Communities' Environment Institute Newsletter

March 2016

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Ecological Civilization

March 2016
By Zhu Guangyao
United Nations Environment Programme

A national strategy for innovative, concerted, green, open and inclusive development

The Chinese government always attaches great importance to environmental protection, adopting a series of major measures in promoting sustainable development. Since the turn of the 21st century, the Central...

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