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From the pope to the people: Emerging religious environmental movement faces challenges

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From the pope to the people: Emerging religious environmental movement faces challenges amid global economic pressures

By Dan Smyer Yü* and Mary Evelyn Tucker*
Association of Religion Data Archives (ARDA)
March 14, 2016

The one bus to the village of Sambha in northeastern Qinghai Province in China leaves in the late afternoon. The...

Sisters of Earth seek planet literacy, look to indigenous wisdom at upcoming conference

March 15, 2016
By Sharon Abercrombie
Global Sisters Report

In the summer of 1994, 65 religious women gathered at St. Gabriel Monastery in Clarks Summit, Pennsylvania, to share their emerging environmental dreams with one another.

They named their new vision circle the Sisters of Earth.

Survival Under Threat, Canada's Indigenous Unite Against Tar Sands Pipelines

The Grand Chief of the Mohawk Kanesatake First Nation calls the proposed Energy East pipeline ‘risky and dangerous’ to indigenous peoples’ survival

By Nika Knight
Common Dreams
March 14, 2016

Indigenous people in Canada are rising up together in greater numbers than ever before to oppose tar sands pipelines on their traditional territory, forming fierce coalitions to...

Women on the Front Lines Fighting Fracking in the Bakken Oil Shale Formations

In the rolling plains of North Dakota, companies like Halliburton, Hess, Crestwood Energy, Whiting Petroleum Corp. and Enbridge have crowned themselves king and are acting with a level of impunity beyond measure.

By Emily Arasim and Osprey Orielle Lake
Common Dreams
March 14, 2016

There are some crystalline moments in which the challenges we face as a civilization...

A Humanist and a Theologian Reimagine Nature

Professors Jedidiah Purdy and Norman Wirzba begin an ecological conversation they believe we all should have

By Andrew Park
Duke Magazine
March 11, 2016

Call for Papers: Special Section of Oryx Journal

March 10, 2016

Sustainability Central to International Women's Day

March 10, 2016
Environment News Service

NEW YORK, New York, March 9, 2016 (ENS) – International Women’s Day is officially celebrated every year on March 8, but this year, so much is happening that the day has expanded to a week-long series of events throughout the world.

The 2016 theme for International Women’s Day is “Planet 50-50 by 2030: Step It Up for...

India: Asian Buddhist and Christian clergy talk ecology and faith

March 10, 2016
Vatican Radio

An interreligious workshop in the eastern Indian state of Bihar focused on ways religions can work together to create a healthy and peaceful planet.

The Jesuit Conference of Asia-Pacific Region organized the three-day workshop on Buddhist-Christian dialogue, which concluded March 7 in Bodh Gaya, the town linked with Buddha’s enlightenment.

An Evangelical Movement Takes On Climate Change

March 9, 2016
By Tik Root
Newsweek

Eco-theologian Fr. Sean McDonagh: Don't let this 'Laudato Si'' moment pass

March 9, 2016
By Brian Roewe
National Catholic Reporter

On Sunday eco-theologian Columban Fr. Sean McDonagh wrapped up a three-city, 10-day speaking tour of the East Coast focused on his new book on Pope Francis’ encyclical, “Laudato Si’, on Care for Our Common Home.”

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