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Green Church Newsletter

August 2014

http://egliseverte-greenchurch.ca/green/index.php?option=com_acymailing&ctrl=archive&task=view&mailid=51&key=6d29d5f24239371e05d329b47c30422d&...

Hindus Support Sweden's Sami Battling Iron Mine

July 31, 2014
Eurasia Review

Hindus have expressed support for Sami reindeer herders in northern Sweden who are battling an iron ore mine.

Hindu statesman Rajan Zed has urged Swedish authorities not to approve British company Beowulf Mining’s application for a 25-year mining concession, known as Kallak project. Sweden should not base its decision on mercantile greed only and...

Religious Conservatives Embrace Pollution Fight

July 30, 2014
By Theodore Schleifer
New York Times

WASHINGTON — The Rev. Lennox Yearwood punched his fist in the air as he rhythmically boomed into the microphone: “This is a moment for great leadership. This is a moment for our country to stand up. This is our moment.”

But Mr. Yearwood’s audience was not a church. It was the Environmental Protection Agency.

Sacred Sites Research Newsletter (SSIREN)

July 2014

http://fore.research.yale.edu/files/SSIREN_July_2014.pdf

In Push To Protect Big Coal, Alabama Officials Say New EPA Regulations Violate God's Will

July 29, 2014
By Shadee Ashtar
The Huffington Post

Pushing back against new Environmental Protection Agency standards limiting carbon emissions from coal-fired power plants, Alabama officials gathered Monday to argue that the new federal policy flouted the Almighty’s will by regulating a God-...

Pope Francis renews attack on mafia in Italian region scarred by toxic waste

July 27, 2014
Reuters

ROME – Pope Francis called for nature to be protected from criminal abuse on Saturday during a visit in the southern Italian town of Caserta, near Naples, in a region long blighted by illegal toxic waste dumps and the pervasive grip of the Camorra mafia.

During a televised open air mass before around 200,000 people, Francis said that the love of God...

Job Opening: Assistant Professor in Environmental Humanities


Assistant Professor in Environmental Humanities

University of Wisconsin Oshkosh

Next big idea in forest conservation: Reconnecting faith and forests

July 24, 2014
By Liz Kimbrough
Mongabay

Innovation in Tropical Forest Conservation: Q&A with Dr. Shonil Bhagwat

The Pope and the Sin of Environmental Degradation

Living on Earth
Air Date: Week of July 18, 2014

Listen or download this interview at:

http://www.loe.org/shows/segments.html?programID=14-P13-00029&segmentID=1

 

Job Opening: Environmental Ethics Professor at the University of Chicago Divinity School

 

July 2014

The University of Chicago Divinity School seeks to make an appointment for a new, tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Environmental Ethics. 

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