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Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew and the Natural Environment: The Mississippi Symposium

By Reverend Dr John Chryssavgis
EcoJesuit – Ecology and Jesuits in Communication
April 15, 2014

The world is charged with the grandeur of God! Gerard Manley Hopkins

IPCC Presents Assessment on Measures to Mitigate Climate Change

April 13, 2014
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)

Berlin, Germany – The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the group of the world’s leading climate change scientists established by the UN General Assembly and working under the auspices of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the World Meteorological Organization, has just...

We need an apartheid-style boycott to save the planet

We must stop climate change. And we can, if we use the tactics that worked in South Africa against the worst carbon emitters

By Desmond Tutu
The Guardian
April 10, 2014

Twenty-five years ago people could be excused for not knowing much, or doing much, about climate change. Today we have no excuse. No more can it be dismissed as science fiction; we are already feeling...

Giving up carbon for Lent

Can the Ecumenical Lenten Carbon Fast help reverse climate change and revitalize the church at the same time?

By Joshua Eaton
Faith and Leadership
April 8, 2014

Katharina Wilkins still passes on things like alcohol and Facebook during the season of Lent, but what’s really important to her is giving up needless car rides and investment in fossil fuels. That’s...

Young people seek an earth restored

If the church wants to remain relevant for students and the youth generation, it should increase and amplify its call to action on climate change, says a young Christian leader.

By Emily Wirzba
Faith and Leadership
April 8, 2014

As a 22-year-old politically engaged Christian woman, I want to be a part of a church that takes seriously its mandate to protect God’s...

Call for Proposals: Ecological Resistance Movements

Call for Proposals: Ecological Resistance Movements in the 21st Century: The Continuing Global Struggle for Biocultural Survival and Multispecies Justice

Call for Applications: Two PhD candidates in English and ecocriticism/environmental humanities

Announcing two fully-funded (5-year) doctoral positions in English at Mid Sweden University, with a desired emphasis on ecocriticism/environmental humanities

The Department of Humanities, Mid Sweden University, Campus Sundsvall, announses a call for applications for two...

Coventry University Job Announcements in study of Science and Religion

Full-Time, Permanent Research Associates, Three-Year Research Assistant, and PhD Studentship Posts in STS/HPS study of Science and Religion.

 

Climate Change, Sustainability, and an Ethics of an Open Future

De Ethica. A Journal of Philosophical, Theological and Applied Ethics

(Volume 1, Issue 1, 2014)

www.de-ethica.com

The first issue of the peer-reviewed Open Access journal De Ethica. A Journal of Philosophical, Theological and Applied Ethics is now available. This issue is devoted to the...

Climate Change Threats To 'The Least Of These' Compel Evangelical Christians To Act

April 5, 2014
By Lynne Peeples
Huffington Post

“Climate change is a really bad reason to get divorced.”

Katharine Hayhoe, a leading climate scientist, recalled the trial she and her husband Andrew, an evangelical Christian pastor, faced when they discovered they weren’t on the same page about global warming.

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