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8 Days of Hanukkah, my True Love said to me:"Please heal My Earth!"

November 27, 2013
By Rabbi Arthur Waskow
The Shalom Center

Hanukkah brings with it again this year three crucial teachings about healing our Mother Earth from the ravages of global scorching

Religious leaders urged to aid Earth

November 24, 2013
By Christy Brown
Courier-journal.com

Editor’s note: Last week, Christy Brown of Louisville delivered the keynote address at the Religions for Peace Ninth World Assembly in Vienna, Austria. More than 600 international religious leaders and other concerned governmental and non-governmental representatives met to “advance multi-religious action for the...

Green Church Newsletter

November 2013

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OP-ED: Nuclear Weapons and the Unfolding Universe

By Winslow Myers
HuntingtonNews.net
November 19, 2013 
 

Through the work of the eco-philosopher Thomas Berry and his protégés, a new way of looking at the universe and our human place in it has been established. While still not “mainstream,” this new story has given hope not only to hundreds of thousands of environmental activists around the world, but as well to...

An Anti-Fracking Pope?

November 14, 2013
By J. David Nolan
First Things

A recent image of Pope Francis holding a T-shirt with the slogan “No al Fracking”—“No to Fracking”—has sparked varied response, including worries from Sarah Palin and praise from...

Divine intervention? Pope opposes fracking

November 13, 2013
By John Upton
Grist

The worldwide leader of the Catholic Church, none other than the motherfracking pope himself, has come out in opposition to the worldwide scourge of hydraulic fracturing.

OK, so Pope Francis didn’t exactly make a policy statement or a speech denouncing fracking. But hints have emerged that he might do so soon. And Twitter is afire...

An Open Letter of Support To the Representative of Philippines

Climate Stewardship Summit

Interreligious Eco-Justice Network

Hartford, Connecticut, USA

AN OPEN LETTER OF SUPPORT
TO THE REPRESENTATIVE OF PHILIPPINES

 

November 12, 2013

Mr Nadarev (Yeb) Sano
Representative of...

Worlds apart: Indigenous leaders abandon faith in UN to find climate solution.

Thousands of delegates are gathered in Warsaw for another round of climate talks. On the other side of the globe, indigenous leaders say they’re done with the UN talks.

By Douglas Fischer
The Daily Climate
November 12, 2013

GHOST RANCH, N.M. – As United Nations delegates gather in Warsaw in the 19th annual effort to craft a global climate treaty, indigenous leaders...

Khoryug Conference: Gyalwang Karmapa Blesses the Yamuna River

November 11, 2013
Kagyu Office

Yamuna River, New Delhi

On the 4th day of the Khoryug Conference on Environmental Protection the Gyalwang Karmapa, together with 60 monastic representatives from across the Himalayan region, left the conference table and headed out into the field.

"It's time to stop this madness" — Philippines plea at UN climate talks

November 11, 2013
Responding to Climate Change (RTCC)

Philippines lead negotiator Yeb Sano has just addressed the opening session of the UN climate summit in Warsaw – calling for urgent action to prevent a repeat of the devastating storm that hit parts of his country at the weekend. A full transcript of his speech is...

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