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What does your faith say about how we treat the environment?

December 1, 2015
By Kelsey Dallas
Deseret News National

More than 150 world leaders gathered in Paris on Monday for the start of an international conference on climate change. Policymakers are expected to reach an agreement within the next few weeks on how to address environmental degradation by reducing greenhouse gas emission and supporting sustainable energy initiatives....

Earth Keeper Newsletter

December 2015

Southern African Faith Communities’ Environment Institute

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A Unique Moment in History

December 1, 2015
By Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew
Huffington Post

As the world’s expectations rise, our prayer is that political leadership will also rise to the occasion. From November 30 to December 11, 2015, the COP 21 meeting in Paris is a unique historical moment, a critical opportunity to make the right choice. Political leaders may and should broker an agreement; but...

Spiritual Principles in Action: A Story for a Younger Generation

December 2015
By Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
Working with Oneness

First published in Dust Magazine

In answer to a question from a 31-year-old person, “What advice do you have for people my age in dealing with a world that tells us we are nothing but material mechanisms, and has almost no concept of the soul?”

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Short Answers to Hard Questions About Climate Change

November 28, 2015
By Justin Gillis
New York Times

The issue can be overwhelming. The science is complicated. Predictions about the fate of the planet carry endless caveats and asterisks.

We get it.

So we’ve put together a list of quick answers to often-asked questions about climate change. This should give you a running start on understanding the problem.

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Eco-Reformation -- Preparing for 2017: The 500th Anniversary of the Reformation

We are approaching the observance of the five hundredth anniversary of the Sixteenth Century Reformation in 2017. As preparation for this event, Lutherans Restoring Creation urges us to consider embracing a New Reformation, an Eco-Reformation, as our means to rise to the greatest challenge of our time.

Integrating Ecology and Justice: The New Papal Encyclical

By Mary Evelyn Tucker and John Grim

Solutions
Volume 6, Issue 4, pp. 38-43
November 28, 2015
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The Moral and Political Dimensions of Climate Change

November 23, 2015
Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)

Hindu Religious and Civil Society Leaders Urge Climate Change Action

November 23, 2015
Hindu Declaration on Climate Change Press Release

Over 60 Hindu leaders and organisations have signed the Hindu Declaration on Climate Change issued to-day, calling for action from both the world´s 900 million Hindus as well as by the 196  governments meeting in Paris from 30 November to 11 December at the 21st Conference of Contracting Parties to the UN Framework...

Catholics waking up to perils of climate change

November 22, 2015
By  Michael Swan
The Catholic Register

Pope Francis has been getting ready for Paris for more than a year. In May of 2014 the Patriarch of Rome sat down in Jerusalem with Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople and issued a joint declaration as a challenge to the world’s Christians.

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