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PhD positions in Environmental Humanities

Linköping University, the Royal Institute of Technology and Uppsala University announce five positions as PhD student within the research programme The Seed Box: A Mistra-Formas Environmental Humanities Collaboratory

 

·         Linköping University, 3 positions

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University of Vienna: Postdoc position in philosophiy / ethics

The University of Vienna seeks to fill the position of a

University Assistant (post doc)
at the Research Platform Nano-Norms-Nature.

Reference number: 5709

250 Rabbis Sign Rabbinic Letter on the Climate Crisis

May 11, 2015
By Rabbi Arthur Waskow  
The Shalom Center

Encouraged by Pope Francis’ work,  They Call for Vigorous Action

As of the morning of May 11, 2015, 250 rabbis have signed a Rabbinic Letter on the Climate Crisis, calling for vigorous action to prevent worsening climate disruption and to seek eco-social justice.

Evangelicals become serious about climate change

Climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe presents a scientific-spiritual approach to the environment
 
By Douglas Todd
Vancouver Sun
May 9, 2015

Hundreds of millions of environmentalists will think “it’s about time” when they hear more evangelical Christians are becoming serious about tackling climate change.

A papal statement on climate change could lead to greener Britain

May 8, 2015
By Soli Salgado  
National Catholic Reporter

A third of British Catholics say they would consider “greening” their lifestyles should Pope Francis make an official statement on climate change.

Pope Francis: 'If We Destroy Creation, Creation Will Destroy Us'

May 6, 2015
By Kieran Cooke
EcoWatch

A declaration at the end of a meeting in Rome hosted by the Vatican made a plea to the world’s religions to engage and mobilize on...

Climate Change and the Christian Gospel: Why we need to respond more urgently

By David Atkins
Ekklesia
May 6, 2015
http://www.ekklesia.co.uk/node/21667

A Roaring Force from One Unknowable Moment

Mary Evelyn Tucker in conversation with Kathleen Dean Moore

Orion Magazine
May | June 2015
https://orionmagazine.org/issue/mayjune-2015/

The story of the universe has the power to change history

Pope Francis Unlikely to Sway Catholic Republicans on Climate Change

Party doctrine will probably trump church doctrine in Congress, experts say, where more than a quarter of lawmakers are Catholics.

By Katherine Bagley
InsideClimate News
May 1, 2015

Pope Francis plans this summer to issue an influential and the first-ever encyclical devoted to global warming and its effects on the world’s poor. Credit: Jeffrey Bruno/Aleteia

Pope Francis has given the climate movement just what it needed — faith

April 30, 2015
By Chris Mooney
Washington Post

This week — and it still feels strange to write this — the major climate change news story came out of the Vatican.

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