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The COEJL Guide to Jewish-Catholic Dialogue and the Environment

Coalition on the Environment and Jewish Life (COEJL)
Jewish Council for Public Affairs (JCPA)

June 2015

http://multi.jewishpublicaffairs.org/coejl/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2015/06/Enyclical-Guide-6.22.2015.pdf

People and planet first: the imperative to change course

July 1, 2015
Vatican Information Service

Vatican City (VIS) – This morning a press conference was held in the Holy See Press Office to present the high-level Conference “People and planet first: the imperative to change course” (Rome, Augustinianum, 2-3 July) organised by the Pontifical Council “Justice and Peace” and CIDSE, an international network of Catholic non-governmental...

Laudato Si': A political reading

The papal encyclical is the first work that has risen to the full challenge of climate change

By Robert Manne
The Monthly
July 1, 2015 

Pope Francis' LAUDATO SI and the New Consciousness

By Mike Bell
Deep Time Journey
July 1, 2015
http://www.deeptimejourney.org/resource/pope-francis-laudato-si-and-the-new-consciousness/

Clergy and People of Faith Arrested in Civil Disobedience Blockade at Crestwood Midstream

June 30, 2015
By Sandra Steingraber
We Are Seneca Lake

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What 'Laudato Si' Means for Malawi

June 29, 2015
By Alex Muyebe, S.J., and Peter Henriot, S.J.
Irish Missionary Union

It was a very tall and very full tree, branches thick and thin.  Ideal for cutting down to cook many meals and to warm many huts.  But over the years, no one touched it, despite trees all around it having been cut down and the landscape left quite barren.

 

The Earth Charter in 2015 (Address by Steven C. Rockefeller)

Earth Charter+15

Landgoed Zonheuvel, The Netherlands

June 29, 2015

http://www.earthchartervrienden.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/The-Earth-Charter-in-2015-7-6-2015-2.pdf

Pope Francis's environmental message brings thousands on to streets in Rome

Vatican officials to discuss climate change and environment with scientists and activists including Naomi Klein

By Rosie Scammell
The Guardian
June 28, 2015

Thousands of campaigners and religious leaders have marched through Rome, backing Pope Francis’s uncompromising environmental message ahead of a Vatican conference on climate change, and urging world leaders to...

ESA commends Pope Francis for encyclical on the environment

June 29, 2015
By Monica G. Turner, David W. Inouye, and Jill S. Baron
Ecological Society of America

The following statement is attributable to the Ecological Society of America (ESA), President-elect Monica G. Turner, PhD, President David W. Inouye, PhD and Immediate Past-president Jill S. Baron, PhD. ESA represents nearly 10,000 professional ecologists in the US.

Climate Marchers Gather to Show Rousing Support for Pope

June 28, 2015
By Elisabetta Povoledo
New York Times

VATICAN CITY — When Pope Francis appeared on the balcony of the Apostolic Palace, where he delivers an address each Sunday, he was met by the usual cheers and by an unusual...

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