News Items

The Forum regularly posts news articles of interest here from a variety of sources and news outlets. You can check back here or view the most recent ones from the homepage. We also archive these articles here, for those doing research, with news going back to 2006. Use the menu on the right to explore the archived articles.

News

Young Activists and the Long Haul

November 9, 2015
By Rev. Jim Conn
Capital & Main

Old people often shake their heads and mutter about “the younger generation.” Or they’ll say to one another, “It’s not the way it used to be,” with a solemn look of dismay as if the world was “going to hell in a hand basket.” That’s the problem when an elder like me writes about human-caused climate change: I come close to...

How an Unlikely Coalition of Environmental Activists Stopped Keystone XL

November 9, 2015
By Anthony Swift, Canada Project Director, NRDC
Huffington Post

A decade ago, Susan Casey-Lefkowitz got one of her first eye-opening looks at the destruction wrought by the fast-expanding Canadian tar sands industry. A lawyer who specialized in international environmental issues, Casey-Lefkowitz was now a policy advocate at the nonprofit Natural Resources...

Leeds Diocese 'Climate Change Conference'

November 8, 2015
By Ellen Teague
Independent Catholic News

Keystone XL Rejection: Indigenous Resistance Exults, Trudeau 'Disappointed'

November 6, 2015
Indian Country Today Media Network

Indigenous activists and environmentalists hailed President Barack Obama’s rejection of the Keystone XL pipeline on Friday November 6, calling it a victory for Mother Earth and a step toward shutting down the Alberta oil sands entirely.

Tribal, Grassroots, & Treaty Leaders Respond to President Obama Rejecting Keystone XL Pipeline

November 6, 2015
Indigenous Environmental Network

President Obama rejects Keystone XL pipeline

November 6, 2015
By Brian Roewe
National Catholic Reporter

President Barack Obama rejected Friday the construction of the Keystone XL transnational pipeline, in part on grounds that approving the politically contentious project would have undercut U.S. leadership on the world stage in addressing climate change.

The Francis Effect

November 2015
Yale Project on Climate Change Communication
http://environment.yale.edu/climate-communication/article/the-francis-effect/

Concern for Earth must be priority, cardinal from Ghana tells central Ohioans

November 3, 2015
By JoAnne Viviano
The Columbus Dispatch

A Roman Catholic cardinal who helped Pope Francis write a wide-ranging environmental document said on Monday that humankind must experience an ecological conversion to save not only the Earth, but also its poorest and most vulnerable inhabitants.

Science alone cannot save the planet, insists spiritual leader of Orthodox Church

Archbishop of Canterbury and Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople urge millions of followers around the world to back action on carbon emissions

By John Bingham, Religious Affairs Editor
The Telegraph
November 3, 2015

Science alone cannot save the planet the spiritual leader of an estimated 300 million Orthodox Christians has insisted, as he joined forces with the...

Green Church Newsletter

November 2015

http://egliseverte-greenchurch.ca/green/index.php?option=com_acymailing&ctrl=archive&task=view&mailid=68&key=65f2bef1e5794e4773ce99fa868ed2a0...

More news...