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CoE to debate disinvestment from fossil fuels

July 5, 2013
Independent Catholic News

The Anglican Diocese of Southwark passed a resolution yesterday calling on the General Synod of the Church of England to consider disinvestment from fossil fuels.

Church Dropping Fossil Fuel Investments

July 3, 2013
By The Associated Press
New York Times

Moccasins on the Ground at Takini on the Cheyenne River Reservation

July 1, 2013
By Owe Aku, International Justice Project
Red Nations Rising

United Church of Christ to become first U.S. denomination to move toward divestment from fossil fuel

July 1, 2013
By Micki Carter
United Church of Christ

A set of strategies to attack climate change — which includes a path to divestment from fossil fuel companies — was passed by General Synod 2013 Monday afternoon at the Long Beach Convention Center. This action on July 1 makes the United Church of Christ the first major religious body in the U.S. to vote to divest from...

Is Religion Good for Your Cat and Dog?

July 1, 2013
Oxford Animal Ethics

A new research project at Oxford will examine whether animals benefit or suffer thanks to religion.

Activist sees climate change as a spiritual issue

June 29, 2013
By Peter Smith
The Courier-Journal

Tim DeChristopher was a University of Utah student and had been studying the role of civil disobedience in historical social movements when, in December 2008, he became part of that history.

DeChristopher walked into a federal auction of oil-and-gas leases in Salt Lake City, represented himself as a bidder and received...

Water Ethics Newsletter

June 2013

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Religions speak with one voice on climate policy

June 27, 2013
By Thea Ormerod and Neil Ormerod
ABC Religion and Ethics

Faith And Fracking: A Religious Case For The Environment

June 20, 2013
By Trisha Marczak
Mint Press News

The hydraulic fracking debate has already gotten political. Now it’s getting religious.

A Catholic diocese in England is stepping up to the front lines of the fracking debate, urging parishioners to think twice before supporting a drilling practice that injects chemicals and silica sand into the earth to break up rock...

'Every Plant and Tree Died:' Huge Alberta Pipeline Spill Raises Safety Questions as Keystone Dec


By Kiley Kroh
Nation of Change 
June 19, 2013 

As the Obama administration’s decision regarding whether to approve the controversial Keystone XL pipeline draws nearer, the latest...

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