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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

People's Climate March this Sunday

SAFCEI - South African Faith Communities Institute
September 19, 2014

http://us6.campaign-archive2.com/?u=887c3de8b0&id=10669b65fc&e=d85b57a294

Green Spirit vs Climate Change: 'All Together' Podcast Hosted By Rev. Paul Raushenbush

September 19, 2014
Huffington Post

Welcome to the weekly Podcast called All Together hosted by Executive Religion Editor Rev. Paul Raushenbush. All Together strives to offer a unique perspective into spiritual and religious individuals, communities and ideas that are shaping our world.

Climate Justice: World Council of Church's Interfaith Summit on Climate Change

September 19, 2014
By Grace Ji-Sun Kim
Huffington Post

I am in New York this week to help in the preparations of the World Council of Church’s (WCC) Interfaith Summit of Climate Change. Having breakfast in a hotel before a meeting is always a rush. This morning, some of the European WCC staff members kept asking me if the Styrofoam plates, plastic utensils and paper cups are “...

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