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International Worship Service for the Climate

The National Council of Churches in Denmark, Dan Church Aid, and the Cathedral for Copenhagen celebrated an International Worship Service for the Climate on October 28, 2014. The Worship Service took place to mark the release of the report of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

The service included greetings and prayers from:

China, Buddhism, and the Environment

October 24, 2014
PBS Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly

China’s massive environmental crisis has its traditionally secular state looking to religion to encourage deeper values, more compassion towards nature, and the creation of what some governmental officials are calling “an ecological civilization.”

 

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Can Chinese Culture Save China's Environment?

October 23, 2014
Pulitzer Center

The Chinese government and people, confronted with colossal environmental challenges, are turning to cultural traditions that under Communism had long been suppressed.

In the midst of a worsening environmental crisis, with constant reports of contaminated soil and water and record levels of air pollution, China’s government...

Call for Papers: Manufacturing Landscapes - Nature and Technology in Environmental History

Deadline: 1 January 2015

Date and Venue: 28–31 May 2015, Renmin University of China, Beijing

Convenors: Mingfang Xia (Renmin University of China), Helmuth Trischler (Deutsches Museum, Rachel Carson Center), and Donald Worster (University of Kansas, Renmin University of China).

Prayer movement launched for a just global climate agreement

October 21, 2014
Independent Catholic News

Christian organisations in the UK are coming together to launch a year of prayer and fasting for the climate at special services across the country on 1 November 2014. This initiative calls on Christians to pray and fast on the first day of every month to make a stand for climate justice. The coming year is a crucial time for faith...

Job Opening: Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Ball State University

Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Qualification: competency in Bioethics, Environmental Philosophy, or Philosophy of Science
Ball State University, Dept. of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Muncie, IN, USA
Position will begin August 2015.   
http://philjobs.org/job/show/3189

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Evangelical Christian pastors frame environmentalism in religious terms

October 18, 2014
By Kelsey Dallas
Desert News National

For the past five years, Mitch Hescox has served as president and CEO of the Evangelical Environmental Network. For 18 years before that, he served as a local church pastor. And for 14 years before that, he worked in America’s coal industry.

Pervasive and powerful: Nonviolence

October 15, 2014
By Rachel Myslivy
Global Sisters Report

Anyone who works for social change can tell you, it’s not an easy road. Like all grand-scale, emotionally and morally charged issues, environmental activism can be frustrating. Playing the blame game has been a primary tactic for many, including myself, in the environmental movement.

Churches Go Green by Shedding Fossil Fuel Holdings

October 15, 2014
New York Times

Evangelical clergy say addressing climate change is pro-life

October 13, 2014
Florida Times-Union

For us, being pro-life includes not only defending our unborn children but also the biblical mandate to care for all life.

While the threats may be different, the injunction to protect life is the same.

We are called to protect this seamless garment of life.

Toxins and other pollutants foul our water, air and soil, impacting...

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