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Interfaith community to discuss protection of coastal waters

March 3, 2016
By Rick Snizek, Editor
Rhode Island Catholic

PROVIDENCE — Draped in hidden splendor beneath the shimmering blue waters of the Atlantic Ocean lie gorges deeper than the Grand Canyon and mountain peaks as tall as the Rockies.

In an area known as Cashes Ledge, located about 80 miles east of Cape Ann, Massachusetts, scientists continue to identify new species...

Murder of Honduran environmental activist sparks outrage

March 4, 2016
By David Agren
Catholic News Service

MEXICO CITY (CNS) – An outspoken environmental activist in Honduras was murdered in her own home, sparking outrage and offering another example of the impunity and violence in the Central American country.

Muftis in Perlis Issue a Fatwa against Pollution

March 2, 2016
Clean Malaysia

Christian Monastic Lands as Protected Landscapes and Community Conserved Areas: An Overview

By Josep-Maria Mallarach, Josep Corcó and Thymio Papayannis
Parks 22, no.1 (March 2016): 63-78.
http://parksjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/PARKS-22.1-Mallarach-et-al-10.2305IUCN.CH_.2016.PARKS-22-1JMM.en_.pdf

An Integrating Story for a Sustainable Future: A Way toward New Human-Earth Relations

March 2016
By Brian Swimme and Mary Evelyn Tucker
Center for Humans and Nature

Southern African Faith Communities' Environment Institute Newsletter

March 2016

http://us6.campaign-archive2.com/?u=887c3de8b0&id=a6c520957b&e=a758405790
 

Ecological Civilization

March 2016
By Zhu Guangyao
United Nations Environment Programme

A national strategy for innovative, concerted, green, open and inclusive development

The Chinese government always attaches great importance to environmental protection, adopting a series of major measures in promoting sustainable development. Since the turn of the 21st century, the Central...

The Urgent Need to Slow Down: A Conversation with Elizabeth Kolbert and Matthieu Ricard

March 1, 2016
By Sam Mowe
The Garrison Institute

Eco-Congregation Scotland Newsletter

March 2016

http://us9.campaign-archive2.com/?u=a37b4ff760ffcc7fd1c3611b4&id=703aecdce0&e=709fe41ec4

At Catholic Worker house, Sr. Elizabeth Johnson explores human kinship with God's creation

February 29, 2016
By Beth Griffin
National Catholic Reporter

New York – While it may come as a shock, humans are neither central nor supreme in the grand scheme of creation. Humans have a place among other beloved creatures of the same living God, and it’s more humble kinship than dominion.

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