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Southern African Faith Communities' Environment Institute (SAFCEI)

August 2013 Newsletter

http://us6.campaign-archive1.com/?u=887c3de8b0&id=6756ad9b24&e=a758405790

An Appeal To Those Concerned But Not Yet Alarmed About Climate Change

August 14, 2013
By GeorgeH
LDS Earth Stewardship

Interview: Megan Hollingsworth of Extinction Witness

August 12, 2013
By Chris Oestereich
Blog

Green Church

August 2013 Newsletter

http://egliseverte-greenchurch.ca/green/index.php?option=com_acymailing&ctrl=archive&task=view&mailid=39&key=...

The Delaware and the Rights of Rivers

August 8, 2013

By Liz Marshall, Five Smooth Stones Project

Genesis Farm

 

Tribe Blockades 'Megaload' of Tar Sands Equipment

Nez Perce leader: ‘We need to be able to meet our ancestors in the spirit world and hold our heads up strong and answer them when they ask if we did all we could do to protect the people and the land.’

By Lauren McCauley
Common Dreams
August 7, 2013

Calling tar sands development a project of “total destruction,” members of the Nez Perce tribe placed their bodies before...

Defiant nuns and monks refuse to give up Kentucky land for gas pipeline

August 2, 2013
By David Ferguson
The Raw Story

Religion and environmentalism: A growing phenomenon

July 26, 2013
United Nations UNEARTH News

World Wildlife Fund Encourages Pope Francis to Include Amazon Conservation Message at Youth Day

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World Wildlife Fund Encourages Pope Francis to Include Amazon Conservation Message at World Youth Day

WWF’s Sacred Earth program director Dekila Chungyalpa, WWF-Brazil CEO Cica Brito and WWF Amazon conservation expert Claudio Maretti part of panel on faith and conservation

World Wildlife Fund Press Release
July 22, 2013

Turning Up the Heat

July 2013
By Bill McKibben
Sojourners Magazine

No one wants to spend summer vacation in the clink, but that’s where a lot us are going to find ourselves.

STATISTICALLY, the last couple of weeks of July are the hottest months of the year. In recent decades, the fossil fuel industry has been making them steadily hotter by burning huge amounts of coal, gas, and oil: Last...

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