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Grantham Centre for Sustainable Futures
University of Sheffield
School of English, UK


Application deadline: February 28, 2015

February 3, 2015
By Julie Ryan
Green Source DWF

Faith leaders of Buddhist, Hindu and Muslim traditions shared their views on climate change and responsibility this Martin Luther King Day, in a panel sponsors dubbed “Love, Justice, Care for Creation.” Dallas Interfaith Power and Light, local affiliate of the national faith-based...

February 3, 2015
Notes from the Quad
Yale University

In the midst of humanity’s divisions and convulsions, John Grim is watching the world slowly wake up to the urgency and ethics of Earth care. At Yale he feels that he joins with others to help make that happen.  

The question is: What values do we human communities share?” says Grim, co-...

February 2, 2015
By Carolyn Woo
Huffington Post

In taking up the important issue of climate change, Pope Francis is acting in the long tradition of the Catholic Church to decry threats to the world God has created and entrusted to us as well as injustices that endanger humanity and disproportionately affect the poor.

February 2, 2015
Vatican Radio

Pope Francis on Saturday received members of  Italy’s National Federation of Farmers, who are this year celebrating the 70th anniversary of their foundation.

Pope Francis told the farmers present in the Clementine Hall  that there is no humanity without the cultivation of the earth, as there is also no life without good food that is produced...

January 30, 2015
By Joshua J. McElwee
National Catholic Reporter

Rome – Explaining her visit Friday to the Vatican, the head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said she wanted to let Pope Francis know that President Barack Obama is “aligned with him” on the issue of climate change and is taking action.

“I think the pope knows his own beliefs,” said EPA...