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Religious Leaders Have 'Enormous Influence' to Bring About Change,

Secretary-General Tells World Council of Churches Assembly

October 30, 2013
United Nations

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message to the tenth Assembly of the World Council of Churches, held in Busan, Republic of Korea, from 30 October to 8 November:

I am pleased to send greetings to all participants at the tenth Assembly of the World Council of...

Tucker, Grim Honored for Linking 'Languages of Many Disciplines'

October 25, 2013
Yale School Forestry & Environmental Studies

Sustainability as a Global Faith? The Religious Dimensions of Sustainability and Personal Risk

By Lucas Johnston
Journal of the American Academy of Religion, pp.1–23.
October 20, 2013

Nuns with a new creed: Environmentalism

October 16, 2013
By Angela Evancie
The Atlantic

While many of their aged peers are living out their days in quiet convents, these women are digging gardens and offsetting carbon.

Every woman in this story is confoundingly non-descript. Short hair, often grey. Conservative dress. Unmarried; soft-spoken. Most are well into their 70s, and all will tell...

Indigenous Nations Are at the Forefront of the Conflict With Transnational Corporate Power

October 16, 2013
By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers
Truthout

8 Tribes That Are Way Ahead of the Climate-Adaptation Curve

October 15, 2013
By Terri Hansen
Indian Country Today Media Network

Sacred Sites Research Newsletter (SSIREN)

October 2013

To view this newsletter, visit:
http://fore.research.yale.edu/files/SSIREN_October_2013.pdf

Yogyakarta Farmer Pioneers Islamic Environmentalism

October 16, 2013
By Cory Rogers
Jakarta Globe

Atop the craggy hilltops southeast of Yogyakarta, not far from the rock-hewn cemetery where visitors pay homage to past sultans, a small farm is striving to demonstrate that modern agriculture practice need not — like the nearby tombs — be set in stone.

Green Church Newsletter

October 2013

http://egliseverte-greenchurch.ca/green/index.php?option=com_acymailing&ctrl=archive&task=view&mailid=41&key=fcfb13f4a3394262512d3bfb7559edd1...

New global treaty cuts mercury emissions and releases, sets up controls

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New global treaty cuts mercury emissions and releases, sets up controls on products, mines and industrial plants

Japan among the first to sign Minamata Convention on Mercury
    
United Nations Environment Programme
October 10, 2013

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