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White House Honors Florida Faith Leader for Climate "Champions of Change"

July 20, 2015
Environmental Protection Agency

Contact Information: Dawn Harris Young, (404) 562-8421 (Direct), (404) 562-8400 (Main), harris-young.dawn@epa.gov

ATLANTA – On Monday, July 20th, the White House will recognize Steven Beumer of Maitland, Fla., as a “Champion of Change” for his efforts in...

Pope is not alone as people of faith take up environmental cause

Mary Evelyn Tucker says the pope’s historic call on climate change captures a growing movement that gives environmental activism moral weight

By Mary Evelyn Tucker
South China Morning Post
July 19, 2015

For decades, the public has assumed that scientists or policymakers would solve environmental problems like climate change. Market-based and technological...

The system is intolerable: the change we need is in our hands

July 18, 2015
By Pope Francis
The Ecologist

The world has become intolerable for people everywhere, and for Earth herself, says Pope Francis. Profound, transformative change leading to social and economic justice is now an absolute necessity and something we must all fight for. We must also act to safeguard the Earth herself, our common home.

 

From Times Square to the Capitol, Apache Protestors Fight U.S. Land Swap with Mining Company

By Andrew C. Revkin
Dot Earth
New York Times
July 17, 2015

The Emerging Phenomenon Of Religious Environmentalism

An encyclical is the highest-level teaching document in the Catholic Church, and this is the first in 2000 years concerned with the environment.

By Mary Evelyn Tucker
Outlook
July 15, 2015

Our Common Home: Climate Change Brings Moral Change

Stemming climate change is a moral responsibility, suggests Pope Francis in encyclical on need for sustainability

By Mary Evelyn Tucker
YaleGlobal
July 14, 2015

An Ode To Climate Trolls (interview with Mary Evelyn Tucker)

July 10, 2015
Green Majority Radio

Listen to the episode here:
https://greenmajoritymedia.wordpress.com/2015/07/10/459-an-ode-to-climate-trolls/

Bishop of Salisbury welcomes update to environment guide

July 10, 2015
Diocese of Lincoln

The Church of England’s lead bishop on the environment has welcomed a new update to a guide providing advice and resources for parishes on tackling climate change.

Don’t Stop at the Lights, first published in 2008 by Church House Publishing, will be issued with a new booklet giving updated information and practical tips to churches...

From Pope Francis to Green Muslims, faith groups steadfast in push for clean energy

July 9, 2015
By Kari Lydersen
Midwest Energy News

Rev. Booker Steven Vance took to the pulpit in historic Old St. Patrick’s Church in downtown Chicago on June 22 to praise Pope Francis’ ground-...

A Radical Vatican?

July 10, 2015
By Naomi Klein
The New Yorker

JUNE 29TH—PACKING

When I was first asked to speak at a Vatican press conference on Pope Francis’s recently published climate-change encyclical, “Laudato Si’,” I was convinced that the invitation would soon be rescinded. Now the press conference and, after it, a two-day symposium to explore the encyclical is...

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