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Sea-Level Rise in Small Island Nations: Shift to Green Policies and Investment Critical

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Sea-Level Rise in Small Island Nations - Up to Four Times the Global Average - to Cost US$ Trillions in Annual Economic Loss and Impede Future Development: Shift to Green Policies and Investment Critical

United Nations Environment Programme
June 5, 2014

Global Net Loss of Coral Reef Cover - Worth US$11.9 Trillion - to Severely...

When Global Warming Kills Your God

Twenty-three Alaskan tribesmen broke the law when they overfished king salmon, but they claim their faith gave them no other choice.

By Adam Weymouth
The Atlantic
June 3, 2014

“So there is a black fish swimming up the river, looking for a fish trap to swim into. Cycle of life, right?”

Catholic Climate Covenant Encouraged by EPA Action, Much More Needed

June 1, 2014
Catholic Climate Covenant

On May 29, Miami Archbishop Thomas Wenski, Chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ (USCCB) Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development, wrote to EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy urging that the new carbon pollution rules on existing power plants should “protect the health and welfare of all people, especially children, the...

Creation Justice Ministries Newsletter

Summer 2014

http://www.creationjustice.org/capsules.html

U.S. Bishops Urge Action on Carbon Pollution To Stem Climate Change

May 29, 2014
United States Conference of Bishops

Reduce carbon pollution to mitigate climate change
Consider effects of pollution on poor, vulnerable people nationally, globally
Act now to protect human life and dignity in the future

Come Into the Madang: World Council of Churches and Climate Justice

May 27, 2014
By Grace Ji-Sun Kim
Huffington Post

I remember visiting my grandmother’s house when I was a young girl living in Korea. I have fond memories of playing in the madang (a Korean term that describes a courtyard within a traditional Korean home). Most Korean homes are protected by a large metal fence around the house with a front gate that leads into the ...

Religious Ethicist Larry Rasmussen is 2014 Gold and Grand Prize Winner

May 2014

Larry Rasmussen’s Earth-Honoring Faith: Religious Ethics in a New Key (Oxford University Press) has received the Nautilus Book Awards 2014 Gold Prize in the category Ecology/Environment as well as the Grand Prize for the best book across all twenty-seven categories. The book is dedicated to the United Church of Santa Fe, GreenFaith, and St. Olaf College for “exemplary...

New First of its Kind Tool Helps Avoid Global Food Waste

May 23, 2014
United Nations Environment Programme

London - In a world where over 840 million go hungry every day, achieving food security goes beyond increasing global food production. Better food systems and sustainable consumption and production approaches are needed to achieve food security for all.

Brighthelm URC becomes the first UK church congregation to disinvest from fossil fuels

May 23, 2014
Ekklesia

Inspired by Operation Noah’s Bright Now campaign, Brighthelm URC Church in Brighton is pulling out of investing in fossil fuels. Operation Noah has congratulated Brighthelm on being the first individual UK church to make the decision to disinvest since the launch of the ON campaign.

Pope Francis: 'We Are Custodians of Creation'

May 22, 2014
By Andrew C. Revkin
New York Times

Pope Francis is digging in on the role of faith and science in shaping a smooth human journey in this turbulent century of cresting appetites and global interconnection.

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