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Protecting the Amazon for Life

The largest tropical forest conservation project in history is good news for the Amazon and the planet

World Wildlife Fund
May 21, 2014

It has taken millions of years for the Amazon to evolve into the most biologically diverse place on Earth. In just a tiny fraction of that amount of time humans have radically changed our natural world, and not for the better. The government...

Climate change is church's No. 1 pro-life issue

May 20, 2014
By NCR Editorial Staff
National Catholic Reporter

There may have been a time when moving from a point of indecision on the matter of climate change, to a decision on whether it is real and caused by humans or not, required leaps of faith of somewhat equal proportions. But that was a long time and a lot of science ago.

Advocacy and Action on Climate Change: World Council of Churches

May 19, 2014
By Grace Ji-Sun Kim and Guillermo Kerber
Huffington Post

This piece is co-authored by Dr. Guillermo Kerber, the World Council of Churches Programme Executive for Care for Creation and Climate Justice.

SAFCEI - South African Faith Communities Institute Newsletter

May 2014

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Call for Papers: International Society for Environmental Ethics, 2015 Central APA

 Submissions are invited for the International Society for Environmental Ethics (ISEE) sessions at the 2015 Central Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association (APA).  The meeting will be held February 18-21, 2015, at the Hilton at the Ball Park in St. Louis, MO.

A day in the life of a water bank

May 13, 2014
By Natasha Khan
PublicSource

For two years, a Presbyterian Church near hard-to-pronounce Connoquenessing Township, Pa., has been a bank — a water bank to be precise.

The church distributes water to 34 families whose wells went bad around the time hydraulic fracturing started in the region. The coincidence can’t be proven, but residents of the Woodlands, a...

Environmental Injustice and Economic Issues: WCC's Working Group on Climate Change

May 13, 2014
By Grace Ji-Sun Kim  
Huffington Post

Why China will solve the world's environmental problems

May 12, 2014
By James Miller  
Sustainable China

Quick! Picture China’s biggest environmental problem.

Pope to UN: Resist the economy of exclusion, serve the poor

May 9, 2014
Vatican Radio

Pope Francis wants to save the planet

May 9, 2014
By Michael Trimmer
Christian Today

Pope Francis is reported to be wanting to galvanise Catholic Church’s response to climate change.

Christiana Figueres, head of the UN’s climate change secretariat, told an audience at St Paul’s Cathedral that a new encyclical on the environment was forthcoming.

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