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Theologian Leonardo Boff compares the Earth Charter and the Pope's Encyclical

Similarities between the Encyclical Laudato si’: “On Care for our Common Home” and the Earth Charter, “Earth, Our Home”

By Leonardo Boff
Earth Charter International
August 4, 2015

Praise Be!

By Rachel Findley and Shelley Tanenbaum

BeFriending Creation
Newsletter of Quaker Earthcare Witness

Volume 28, Number 4

July-August 2015

http://www.quakerearthcare.org/sites/quakerearthcare.org/files/bfc/bfc2804_0.pdf

Integrating Ecology and Justice: The New Papal Encyclical

By Mary Evelyn Tucker and John Grim

Solutions

July-August 2015

www.thesolutionsjournal.org

Read the article:
http://fore.yale.edu/files/Tucker_Grim_Integrating_Ecology_and_Justice.pdf

More Than 180 Evangelical Leaders Endorse Obama's Carbon Reduction Plan

July 31, 2015
By Jack Jenkins
Climate Progress

More than 180 evangelical Christian leaders signed a letter this week backing President Barack Obama’s plan to reduce carbon emissions from power plants, the latest...

Among Republicans, Catholics More Likely to Believe that Global Warming is Happening

Full title:

Among Republicans, Catholics More Likely to Believe that Global Warming is Happening and Support Policies to Reduce It

By Yale Project on Climate Change Communication
Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies
Summer 2015

Sacred Sites Research Newsletter (SSIREN)

July 2015

http://sacrednaturalsites.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/SSIREN-July-2015.pdf

Pope Francis on Animal Liberation

July 28, 2015
By Jane Gray Morrison and Michael Charles Tobias
Millennium Alliance for Humanity and Biosphere

Pope Francis’s “‘Encyclical Letter, Laudato Si’ Of The Holy Father Franciscus On Care For Our Common Home’” (“Given in Rome at Saint Peter’s on 24 May, the Solemnity of Pentecost, in the year 2015”), can easily be summarized by virtually any one segment of its...

The Sabbath Day and Earth Stewardship

By George Handley
Patheos
July 26, 2015

The LDS Church has recently rolled out new training for members about the central importance of the importance of observance of the Sabbath Day and of the sacrament. My thoughts here are inspired by this training, which I find to be wonderfully focused on the fundamental covenant we make at baptism and which we renew each Sunday to take...

Why Do I Care? French Government makes climate change debate personal pre COP

July 22, 2015
Press Release

VIDEO OF THE CONFERENCE here.

Photos of the Summit of Conscience.

White House honors Wisconsin Green Muslims founder

July 20, 2015
By Kari Lydersen
Midwest Energy News

On June 22, Huda Alkaff circulated among the crowd of men, women and youth at the Islamic society of Milwaukee gathered to break the Ramadan fast after sunset and to talk about climate change, water and how to live a more environmentally sustainable existence.

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