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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. 

Can There Be Development Without Spiritual Capital?

July 15, 2014
By Olav Kjorven
Huffington Post

Extinction Grieving Prayer

July 12, 2014
By Terri MacKenzie
Ecospirituality Resources

Those who are “joined … so closely to the world around us that we can feel the … extinction of a species as a painful disfigurement” (Pope Francis) often feel, and sometimes read about, the need for a prayer or ritual to help us grieve. I felt that need especially after researching and writing my last two blogs.

Pope Francis's Radical Environmentalism

Exploiting the earth “is our sin,” the pontiff says.

By Tara Isabella Burton
The Atlantic
July 11, 2014

Group Representing Half A Billion Christians Says It Will No Longer Support Fossil Fuels

July 11, 2014
By Emily Atkin
Climate Progress

A large umbrella group of churches representing more than half a billion Christians worldwide announced Thursday that it would pull all of its investments in fossil fuels, saying it had determined the investments were no longer ethical.

Mother Pelican: A Journal of Solidarity and Sustainability

Vol. 10, No. 7, July 2014

Luis T. Gutiérrez, Editor

http://www.pelicanweb.org/solisustv10n07page1.html

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