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SAFCEI - South African Faith Communities Institute Newsletter

May 2014

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Call for Papers: International Society for Environmental Ethics, 2015 Central APA

 Submissions are invited for the International Society for Environmental Ethics (ISEE) sessions at the 2015 Central Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association (APA).  The meeting will be held February 18-21, 2015, at the Hilton at the Ball Park in St. Louis, MO.

A day in the life of a water bank

May 13, 2014
By Natasha Khan
PublicSource

For two years, a Presbyterian Church near hard-to-pronounce Connoquenessing Township, Pa., has been a bank — a water bank to be precise.

The church distributes water to 34 families whose wells went bad around the time hydraulic fracturing started in the region. The coincidence can’t be proven, but residents of the Woodlands, a...

Environmental Injustice and Economic Issues: WCC's Working Group on Climate Change

May 13, 2014
By Grace Ji-Sun Kim  
Huffington Post

Why China will solve the world's environmental problems

May 12, 2014
By James Miller  
Sustainable China

Quick! Picture China’s biggest environmental problem.

Pope to UN: Resist the economy of exclusion, serve the poor

May 9, 2014
Vatican Radio

Pope Francis wants to save the planet

May 9, 2014
By Michael Trimmer
Christian Today

Pope Francis is reported to be wanting to galvanise Catholic Church’s response to climate change.

Christiana Figueres, head of the UN’s climate change secretariat, told an audience at St Paul’s Cathedral that a new encyclical on the environment was forthcoming.

Desmond Tutu: Opposition to pipelines is a moral choice

May 9, 2014
By Desmond Tutu
Ottawa Citizen

As I travel the globe – witnessing first-hand the vulnerability of communities most affected by climate change, from South Africa to Canada – the urgency of our responsibility to take action has never been clearer. Every single day hundreds of millions of lives and livelihoods are affected by global warming, a trend that will...

UN to back Pope Francis statement on 'human ecology'

May 8, 2014
By Sophie Yeo
Responding to Climate Change (RTCC)

The UN will back a letter from the Pope on man’s relationship with the environment, its climate chief Christiana Figueres said on Wednesday.

Faith leaders need to find their voice on climate change

May 7, 2014
By Christiana Figueres
The Guardian

Religious institutions need to find their voice and set their moral compass on one of the great humanitarian issues of our time

Saving the Earth and its peoples from dangerous climate change is an economic, social and environmental issue – and a moral and ethical one too that goes to the core of many if not all of the...

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