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The forest is crying

Fighting deforestation in the Congo Basin by giving voice to indigenous people

By Angela K. Evans
Boulder Weekly
February 11, 2016

“One does not sell the earth upon which the people walk.”

Coal Money Divides Oakland's Churches

The company behind the plan to ship coal through Oakland has promised millions of dollars to Oakland churches for their support.

By Darwin BondGraham
East Bary Express
February 10, 2016

What these Christians are giving up for Lent: Fossil fuels

February 10, 2016
By Chelsea Harvey
Washington Post

A new initiative in the United Kingdom is not only calling for Christian communities to band together in support of clean energy, but actually helping them get their own electricity that way. The Big Church Switch, which launched Wednesday, aims to inspire both individuals and...

Poet Wendell Berry bequeaths farming legacy to small Catholic college

February 8, 2016
By Judith Valente, Religion News Service
National Catholic Reporter

St. Catharine, K.Y. – The tobacco farms, hay fields and rolling knobs of central Kentucky mark the landscape that inspires much of the work of award-winning poet, fiction writer and essayist Wendell Berry.

Berry describes the solace he derives from this land in one of his most famous...

In February prayer video, Pope Francis pleads for creation care, 'a new way of living'

February 5, 2016
By Brian Roewe
National Catholic Reporter

Pope Francis reinforced core messages of his major encyclical on the environment in his video prayer intention for February, asking people across the globe to do their part in “caring for our common home,” and to discover “a new way of living.”

The video, the new medium for the monthly prayer intentions, opens...

Why climate change is really, really unfair

February 5, 2016
By Chris Mooney
Washington Post

Heeding Pope Francis's Call, SJU Hosts Conference to Tackle Worldwide Crisis

February 2, 2016
St. John’s University

His Holiness Pope Francis’s deep concern for the global ecological crisis and its impact on the poor was the topic of the Ninth Biennial Vincentian Chair of Social Justice Conference, held on January 30 at the...

Exxon Stiff-Arms a Request to Take Moral Responsibility for Climate Change

Opposing a shareholder resolution, Exxon says the call to accept responsibility for global warming and support the 2 degrees Celsius goal is ‘vague.’

By David Hasemyer
InsideClimate News
February 3, 2016

Oil giant ExxonMobil moved to reject a shareholder proposal calling for the company to assert moral leadership on climate change and pledge to work toward limiting...

Center for Spirituality in Nature blends ecology and theology

February 3, 2016
By Mark Jenkins
Washington Post

Beth Norcross likes to take walks in the woods. But when she does, she’s looking for more than scenery and solitude.

The Arlington resident is the founding director of the Center for Spirituality in Nature, which combines ecological and theological objectives....

NGT questions Hindus' cremation procedure, says it causes air, water pollution

February 3, 2016
India TV News Desk

New Delhi: The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has questioned the centuries-old tradition practised by Hindus to cremate dead bodies at the river banks, saying the method of burning wood leads to air pollution and also effects natural water resources.

Keeping in mind the growing level of pollution, the NGT said that there...

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