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Religious Leaders Urge Ambitious Climate Agreement

October 20, 2015
International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) Reporting Services

UNFCCC Executive Director Christiana Figueres received a statement from a delegation of 154 faith and spiritual leaders representing different faith groups, headed by South African Archbishop Thabo Makgoba, calling for an ambitious climate agreement, reminding governments to commit to...

Jane Goodall at Parliament: Pope Francis gives me hope on environment

October 19, 2015
By Anne Marie Hankins
Religion News Service

Job Opening: Department of Religious Studies at the University of Virginia

The Department of Religious Studies at the University of Virginia invites applicants for a tenure-track Assistant or tenured Associate Professor position, focused on Religion, Nature, and Culture in South Asia. These hires are part of a multiyear initiative in the environmental humanities, supported by the Andrew H. Mellon Foundation and the College of Arts & Sciences....

Can the pope bridge the climate divide?

Catholics in the West are responding to his call. Will Congress?

October 12, 2015
By Elizabeth Shogren
High Country News

Laudato Si' panel event encourages hope amidst ecological challenges

October 8, 2015
By Andrea Simmonds (MDiv ’18) and C. Mark Batten, Office of Communications
Wake Forest University

Earth Keeper Newsletter

Southern African Faith Communities’ Environment Institute

October 7, 2015

http://us6.campaign-archive1.com/?u=887c3de8b0&id=70b057a399&e=d85b57a294

Job Opening: Associate Director, Center for Earth Jurisprudence

Barry University Dwayne O. Andreas School of Law
6441 East Colonial Drive
Orlando, FL, USA

Barry University Dwayne O. Andreas School of Law is seeking to fill the Associate Director of the Center for Earth Jurisprudence (CEJ) position.  The Associate Director will assist the Director in design, implementation and management of multiple aspects of the Center: research and...

Faith in Action: Empowering the Poor to Reach Universal Energy Access

Report of a workshop on Tuesday, October 2, 2012
Hosted by the World Faiths Development Dialogue and the United Nations Foundation
At the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs
Georgetown University, Washington, DC

How Pope Francis helped awaken a deep religious tradition for care for the environment

September 25, 2015
By Mark Stoll
Huffington Post

Just about every person who led and shaped the American conservation and early environmental movements grew up Protestant. What irony, then, that the one person who has done more to get people talking about the environment than anyone in decades is the supreme pontiff of the Catholic Church, Pope Francis.

Pope Francis on Climate Change: Some Questions

September 24, 2015
By Roger S. Gottlieb
Huffington Post

For the many of us–clergy and laypeople, academics and plain citizens, in the U.S. and throughout the world–who for decades have been saying that the environmental crisis calls for a religious perspective and an activist religious response Pope Francis’ bold words are a wonderfully welcome addition.

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