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Nobel Laureate J. M. Coetzee Backs Report about Animal Experiments as Morally 'Unthinkable'

Press Release on Centre’s Report on the Ethics of Animal Experiments

Nobel Laureate J. M. Coetzee Backs a New Report which Describes Animal Experiments as Morally ‘Unthinkable’

Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics
March 26, 2015

Climate denial is immoral, says head of US Episcopal church

Climate change is a moral challenge threatening the rights of the world’s poorest people and those who deny it are not using God’s gift of knowledge, says presiding bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori

By Suzanne Goldenberg
The Guardian
March 24, 2015

The highest ranking woman in the Anglican communion has said climate denial is a “blind” and immoral position which rejects...

Pope: Future of humanity depends on protecting, sharing water

March 23, 2015
By Carol Glatz
National Catholic Reporter

Vatican City – The future of humanity depends on safeguarding and sharing potable water around the world, Pope Francis said.

“I encourage, therefore, the international community to make sure the planet’s water is adequately protected and no one is excluded or discriminated against” in the fair use of this resource...

Pope puts climate heat on GOP

March 23, 2015
By Tom Krattenmaker
USA Today

With Catholic advances in Republican Party hierarchy, will papal views hold sway?

'Water man of India' Rajendra Singh bags top prize

March 21, 2015
By Roger Harrabin, BBC environment analyst
BBC

An award known as “the Nobel Prize for water” has been given to an Indian campaigner who has brought water to 1,000 villages.

The judges of the Stockholm Water Prize say his methods have also prevented floods, restored soil and...

SGI Joins FBOs in Events on Disaster Risk Reduction at WCDRR

March 18, 2015
Soka Gakkai International

From March 14-18, the Third UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction (WCDRR) was held in Sendai city in Miyagi Prefecture, Japan. As a side event, on March 15, a symposium titled “Community based DRR from a faith-based perspective – sharing best practices” was co-organized by ACT Alliance and SGI in cooperation with the Japan Religion...

PhD position: Climate Change — Uncertainties, Thresholds and Coping Strategies

PhD student position in Philosophy (Theories of Justice and Ethics) in the interdisciplinary Doktoratskolleg “Climate Change – Uncertainties, Thresholds and Coping Strategies”

http://jobs.uni-graz.at/en/MB/62/99/2200

 

Twelve Funded Doctoral Fellowships in Environmental Humanities in Europe: Leeds | Munich | Stockholm

The Environmental Humanities for a Concerned Europe research group (www.enhanceitn.eu) is now seeking applicants for twelve PhD/doctoral researchers:

4 easy ways to support Earth Hour

March 19, 2015
Southern African Faith Communities’ Environment Institute

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FBOs disappointed by exclusion, yet still committed to DRR

March 17, 2015
Act Alliance

More than ten international faith based networks attending the Third World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction have expressed their disappointment at the exclusion of a reference to the contribution of faith communities in times of disasters.

In a statement...

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