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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.

Evangelicals Organize 'Day of Prayer,' Call for Action on Climate Change

Young Evangelicals for Climate Action is highlighting the effects of global warming.

By Alan Neuhauser
USA Today
April 4, 2014

Hundreds of evangelical Christians gathered across the country Thursday for a “Day of Prayer and Action” on climate change.

Whatever Happened to Deep Ecology? (Call for Submissions: 30th Anniversary of the Trumpeter)

Whatever Happened to Deep Ecology? 

Past, Present, and Future

An invitation for papers on the occasion of 30th anniversary of The Trumpeter

A changing climate creates pervasive risks but opportunities exist for effective responses

March 31, 2014
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
Press Release

Responses will face challenges with high warming of the climate

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