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Call for Papers: Second Oxford Summer School on Animal Ethics

The Ethics of Using Animals in Research
 
July 26-29, 2015

Church of Sweden ditches assets in fossil fuel companies

September 24, 2014
Operation Noah

As hundreds of thousands of people marched in New York, London, and cities across the globe this weekend to call for a global deal on climate change, the Church of Sweden has become the latest national Church to eliminate fossil fuels from its investment portfolio. The Church announced this week that it has removed gas companies from its portfolio...

Job Opening: Cultural Anthropology/Environment and Sustainability Professor

University of Colorado Boulder

Review of applications will begin on November 1, 2014 and will continue until finalists are identified.
 
http://careercenter.aaanet.org/jobs/6479870/university-of-colorado-boulder-cultural-anthropology-...

Job Opening: Assistant Professor in Religion, Ethics and Society

Haverford College
Haverford, PA, USA

To receive full consideration, all application materials should be received in electronic form by October 15, 2014.

http://www.haverford.edu/news/stories/78652/61

United Nations and Leading Investors Launch Coalition to Decarbonize Institutional Investment

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United Nations and Leading Investors Launch Coalition to Decarbonize Institutional Investment Worldwide at UN Summit

Commitment to decarbonize $100 billion of investment

United Nations Environment Programme
September 23, 2014

Mountaintop Experience and a Prophetic Call for Climate Change

September 23, 2014
By Grace Ji-Sun Kim
Huffington Post

The joy and excitement of being part of the Religions for the Earth and World Council of Churches (WCC) and Religions for Peace’s...

The Rockefeller Brothers Fund Gives Up on Oil

September 23, 2014
By Vauhini Vara
The New Yorker

These Inspiring Faith Leaders Have A Message For The UN's Climate Summit

September 22, 2014
By Antonia Blumberg
Huffington Post

Union Theological Seminary hosted the Religions for the Earth conference over the weekend – and there was no shortage of inspiring faith leaders.

Oceania voices on environment loud and strong - Caritas

September 19, 2014
Voxy

While money and energy continues to be spent on global talks about climate change, Pacific islanders are scrambling to build sea walls out of sticks, stones, shells and coral, to protect their lands and homes from erosion and rising sea levels.

This is one of the findings of a Caritas report, Small yet strong: Voices from Oceania on the environment,...

Religion and climate change -- Competing to save the earth

September 19, 2014
By B.C.
The Economist

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