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9 New Year's resolutions for the Earth

January 13, 2016

Southern African Faith Communities’ Environment Institute

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Why climate change is an ethical problem

January 9, 2016
By Stephen Gardiner
Washington Post

Climate change presents a severe ethical challenge, forcing us to confront difficult questions as individual moral agents, and even more so as members of larger political systems. It is genuinely global and seriously intergenerational, and crosses species boundaries. It also takes place in a setting where existing...

Pope inspires clergy to join environmental movement

A papal encyclical aimed at caring for the environment has given clergy a renewed imperative for responsible action

By T.J. Pignataro
The Buffalo News
January 9, 2016

Pope Francis was right on climate change

January 7, 2016
By John Nagle
Washington Post

Climate will have such a profound effect on the earth that we will need to reconsider our relationship with the natural environment. That’s why many environmental activists are now being drawn to an evolving philosophical stance on the topic, shifting away from an approach that is simply political, scientific or economic.

Eco-Congregation Scotland Newsletter

January 6, 2016

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J. Baird Callicott is recipient of the first Lifetime Achievement Award

January 5, 2016
University of North Texas

Religious leaders commit to environmental protection in Vietnam

January 4, 2016
By Joachim Pham
Global Sisters Report

Religious representatives promised to work to protect the environment and cope with climate change at a national conference that drew 400 participants to this central Vietnam area in early December.

Time for leaders to make moral choice on climate change

January 2, 2016
By Russell L. Meyer
Palm Beach Post

During his visit to the United States in September, Pope Francis told the American people that “climate change is a problem which can no longer be left to our future generation. When it comes to the care of our common home, we are living at a critical moment of history.”

Paris Agreement--A Good Foundation for Meaningful Progress

January 1, 2016
By Robert Stavins
Huffington Post

By Night in a Pillar of Fire: A Theological Analysis of Renewable Energy

By Erin Lothes Biviano

Chapter from Just Sustainability: Technology, Ecology, and Resource Extraction
Edited by Christiana Z. Peppard and Andrea Vicini
Series: Catholic Theological Ethics in the World Church
Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2015

Read the essay here.

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