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Greening Group Planting Environmental Seeds

Religious school students get a sustainability crash course.

By Merri Rosenberg
The Jewish Week
May 17, 2016

It wasn’t your everyday religious school experience.

When Hazon, a Jewish environmental organization, showed up at the Community Synagogue of Rye last month with their Topsy-Turvy bus — powered by vegetable oil — religious...

Taj Mahal Under Attack by Bugs and Their Green Slime

May 17, 2016
By Nida Najar and Suhasini Raj
New York Times

Indigenous tribe on Mt. Elgon suffers climate change impacts

May 16, 2016
By Gerald Tenywa
New Vision

He had never known anything known as malaria until he left the higher parts of Mt. Elgon where he was born 57 years ago.

When Batya Moya, an elder among the Benets got down at Amanang, which is at the edge of Mt. Elgon National Park, he was attacked by malaria. The malaria carrying mosquitoes breed in the lower parts of the...

Pursuit of integral ecology

By Marcelo Sánchez Sorondo and Veerabhadran Ramanathan
Science
Vol. 352, Issue 6287, pp. 747
May 13, 2016

Catholic social teachings call to the dignity of creation

May 13, 2016
By Denis M. Hughes and Brian Jordan
National Catholic Reporter

On May 15, 1891, Pope Leo XIII issued the seminal encyclical for workers Rerum Novarum (On the Condition of Labor). This memorable encyclical officially...

Can India's Sacred But 'Dead' Yamuna River Be Saved?

May 11, 2016
By Julie McCarthy
NPR

A fire crackles along the banks of the Yamuna River: a cremation of a young mother, struck by a car while she was fetching water.

The stench of the river engulfs the sad assembly.

Before the hissing funeral pyre, floating down the river, white blocks of what looks like detergent appear like icebergs. It is 95 degrees in Delhi...

BC indigenous leaders seek UN support against gas project

May 12, 2016
WRAL

UNITED NATIONS — First Nations leaders from British Columbia brought their fight against a proposed liquefied natural gas project in the province to the U.N. on Thursday, saying it could threaten the wild salmon habitat on their ancestral lands.

The group sought the support of United Nations members for its demand that the Canadian government reject the $36...

First Nation Wins Historic Victory Over Mammoth Coal Export Terminal

US Army Corps of Engineers denies permit for proposed Cherry Point terminal, which would have been the largest in North America

By Lauren McCauley
Common Dreams
May 10, 2016

In a move being hailed as a landmark victory for the climate movement, Pacific Northwest communities, and tribal members alike, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on Monday...

10 Latin American Indigenous Rights Warriors You Need to Know

May 8, 2016
Telesur

These Indigenous human rights and environmental activists are making waves in Latin American and beyond.

Indigenous leader around the world are on the front lines of struggle against corporate exploitation, resource extraction, neoliberal policies, and other injustices impacting people and the environment.

Here’s a look at some of the most...

Radical art form blazing a trail for environment, indigenous rights

May 9, 2016
FMT News

PETALING JAYA: An alternative art group born through a love of punk rock has gained popularity across Malaysia in just a matter of six years, from its humble beginnings in Ranau, Sabah, according to a report by the South China Morning Post.

Pangrok Sulap uses woodcut printing for some controversial and confrontational art pieces that aims to address...

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