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Living Green

July 28, 2016
By Kathryn McKenzie, Living Green
Santa Cruz Sentinel

Monterey Bishop Richard J. Garcia in June wrote a letter to priests and deacons within the Diocese of Monterey, calling on the 34 churches within the diocese to live the words set down by Pope Francis, above, whose 2015 encyclical, Laudato Si, urges humankind to act now to save the earth....

A Creator God and a Sense of Place: A Jewish Ecotheology

July 27, 2016
Chautauqua Institution

Ellen Bernstein, a Rabbi and Ecologist, is the founder of the first national Jewish environmental organization - Shomrei Adamah (Keepers of the Earth). Her presentation “A Creator God and a Sense of Place: A Jewish Ecotheology” outlines the necessity for balance between Man and Earth, and God’s oneness which connects them.

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What It Takes to Clean the Ganges

More than a billion gallons of waste enter the river every day. Can India’s controversial Prime Minister save it?

By George Black
The New Yorker
July 25, 2016

More than a billion gallons of raw sewage and industrial effluent enter the river every day. The Hindu-nationalist government’s restoration initiative plays directly into India’s charged religious and caste...

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...

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