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Christians set out on climate 'pilgrimage' from London to Paris

Members of different denominations embark on a two week long march to the Paris climate change talks to raise awareness of environmental issues

By Emma Howard
The Guardian
November 13, 2015

“Not getting lost in London will probably be the first hurdle,” laughed Jade Till, a teacher from Stroud, before adding that walking 19 miles on a cold...

Berkley Center symposium panel examines relationship between religion and climate change

November 10, 2015
By Justin Plumb
The Georgetown Voice

On Nov. 9, the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs in conjunction with the U.S. Department of State held a symposium on religion and climate change in the Healey Family Student Center.

Young Activists and the Long Haul

November 9, 2015
By Rev. Jim Conn
Capital & Main

Old people often shake their heads and mutter about “the younger generation.” Or they’ll say to one another, “It’s not the way it used to be,” with a solemn look of dismay as if the world was “going to hell in a hand basket.” That’s the problem when an elder like me writes about human-caused climate change: I come close to...

How an Unlikely Coalition of Environmental Activists Stopped Keystone XL

November 9, 2015
By Anthony Swift, Canada Project Director, NRDC
Huffington Post

A decade ago, Susan Casey-Lefkowitz got one of her first eye-opening looks at the destruction wrought by the fast-expanding Canadian tar sands industry. A lawyer who specialized in international environmental issues, Casey-Lefkowitz was now a policy advocate at the nonprofit Natural Resources...

Leeds Diocese 'Climate Change Conference'

November 8, 2015
By Ellen Teague
Independent Catholic News

Keystone XL Rejection: Indigenous Resistance Exults, Trudeau 'Disappointed'

November 6, 2015
Indian Country Today Media Network

Indigenous activists and environmentalists hailed President Barack Obama’s rejection of the Keystone XL pipeline on Friday November 6, calling it a victory for Mother Earth and a step toward shutting down the Alberta oil sands entirely.

Tribal, Grassroots, & Treaty Leaders Respond to President Obama Rejecting Keystone XL Pipeline

November 6, 2015
Indigenous Environmental Network

President Obama rejects Keystone XL pipeline

November 6, 2015
By Brian Roewe
National Catholic Reporter

President Barack Obama rejected Friday the construction of the Keystone XL transnational pipeline, in part on grounds that approving the politically contentious project would have undercut U.S. leadership on the world stage in addressing climate change.

The Francis Effect

November 2015
Yale Project on Climate Change Communication
http://environment.yale.edu/climate-communication/article/the-francis-effect/

Concern for Earth must be priority, cardinal from Ghana tells central Ohioans

November 3, 2015
By JoAnne Viviano
The Columbus Dispatch

A Roman Catholic cardinal who helped Pope Francis write a wide-ranging environmental document said on Monday that humankind must experience an ecological conversion to save not only the Earth, but also its poorest and most vulnerable inhabitants.

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