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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...

"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...

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.

Climate COP-19 Edition of UNEP Magazine, 'Our Planet', now available online

November 11, 2013
United Nations Environment Programme

Please note that the Climate COP edition of UNEP’s magazine, “Our Planet”, is now available online at http://www.unep.org/pdf/OP-2013-12-EN.pdf

The theme for the issue is The Future is Priceless.

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Learning How to Die in the Anthropocene

November 10, 2013  
By Roy Scranton
New York Times Opinionator

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Driving into Iraq just after the 2003 invasion felt like driving into the future. We convoyed all day, all night, past Army checkpoints and burned-out tanks, till in the blue dawn Baghdad rose from the desert like a vision of hell: Flames licked the bruised sky from the tops of refinery towers, cyclopean...

Guilty but Green -- Why India keeps coming out on top of environmental sustainability surveys

November 7, 2013
By Tori Jane Quante
Slate

Hartford Hosts Multifaith Summit On Climate Thursday

‘The Great Moral Challenge Not Only Of Our Time But Of All Time’

By Bernard T. Davidow, bdavidow@courant.com
The Hartford Courant
November 6, 2013

HARTFORD — Buddhists, Baptists, Catholics, Jews, Muslims, Unitarians and others are gathering in Hartford on Thursday for an unusual interfaith meeting on the...

Study: Focus on place motivates conservation behavior in faith-based communities

November 6, 2013
University of Wisconsin - Cooperative Extension
Press Release

Religious leaders highlight significance of water at WCC assembly

November 4, 2013
Ecumenical Water Network of the World Council of Churches

A symbolic act of pouring water into one common vessel, carried out by religious leaders representing Christian, Muslim, Hindu, Jewish and Buddhist faiths, marked the significance of water in various religious traditions. This action took place at the World Council of Churches (WCC) 10th Assembly,...

Religion and Science Converge: Developing Environmental Ethics

October 2013
By Margaret Antonio
The Torch – Boston College’s Catholic Newspaper

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