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Will the Vatican Become a New Leader Against Climate Change?

February 17, 2015
By Kevin Mathews
Care2

As political leaders make only moderate concessions in the name of fighting climate change, will anyone emerge to apply the pressure necessary to enact legitimate policy change? Surprisingly, the planet’s savior could wind up being the Pope. The latest rumors indicate that the...

Tonga's King talks climate change with Pope Francis

King of Tonga discusses environment with the Pope, as Vatican gets its first Tongan Cardinal

By Sophie Yeo
Responding to Climate Change
February 17, 2015

Tonga’s King has taken the environmental challenges facing the small island states in the Pacific to the Vatican.

King Tupou VI, a Methodist, and his wife, Queen Nanasipau’u Tuku’aho, discussed...

Earth Keeper Newsletter

Southern African Faith Communities’ Environment Institute

February 2015

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Deep in the Amazon, a Tiny Tribe Is Beating Big Oil

The people of Sarayaku are a leading force in 21st century indigenous resistance, engaging the western world politically, legally, and philosophically.

By David Goodman
Yes! Magazine
February 12, 2015

Anticipation building for papal encyclical on environment

February 12, 2015
By Mark Pattison
Catholic News Service

WASHINGTON (CNS) — The much-anticipated encyclical by Pope Francis on the environment, expected sometime this spring or early summer, is generating a lot of buzz in Washington and elsewhere.

At the Catholic Social Ministry Gathering, a Feb. 9 panel discussion on climate change and other environmental issues had...

Job Opening: The Aldo Leopold Distinguished Teaching Chair in Environmental Ethics and Education

The Lawrenceville School

Lawrenceville, NJ, USA

 

The Lawrenceville School is seeking an exceptional educator with the vision, energy,  and initiative to fulfill the objectives of the Aldo Leopold Distinguished Teaching Chair in Environmental Ethics and Education.  Aldo Leopold attended Lawrenceville at the turn of the century,...

Religious Leaders Confronting Climate Change: Podcast with Mary Evelyn Tucker

February 11, 2015
Yale Climate Connections

Most of the world’s religions — including Christianity, Judaism, Islam and Buddhism — have said that protecting vulnerable people and the earth are moral imperatives. These values are inspiring religious leaders to speak out on climate change.

TUCKER: “Clearly this is already adversely affecting vulnerable people of lower incomes be...

Pope Mass: Protecting Creation a Christian responsibility

February 9, 2015
Vatican Radio

Christians are called to care for God’s creation. That was the Pope’s message at Mass this Monday morning at the Casa Santa Marta. The Holy Father also spoke about the “second creation”, the one performed by Jesus that he “re-created” from what had been ruined by sin.

The Role of Religious Environmentalism

February 9, 2015
Council on Foreign Relations

 

Speaker: Mary Evelyn Tucker, Codirector, Forum on Religion and Ecology, Yale University


Moderator: Irina A. Faskianos, Vice President, National Program & Outreach, Council on Foreign Relations

 

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Pope Francis: It's Christian to protect the environment

February 9, 2015
By David Gibson, Religion News Service
USA Today

VATICAN CITY — If you are a Christian, protecting the environment is part of your identity, not an ideological option, Pope Francis said Monday.

“When we hear that people have meetings about how to preserve creation, we can say: ‘No, they are the greens!’” Francis said in his homily at morning Mass, using...

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