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ARC reissues classic book on religion and conservation

June 5, 2013
Alliance of Religions and Conservation 

 

Ten years after its original publication ARC has revised a groundbreaking book on the links between religion and conservation. 

Pope at audience: Counter a culture of waste with solidarity

June 5, 2013
Vatican Radio

When stock markets drop ten points its ‘a tragedy’ but starving children, homeless people dying on our streets, people disposed of like trash - such as the unborn or the elderly - has become the norm.

From Australia to Afghanistan, New Research Spotlights Low-Cost Actions for Delivering Major Benefit

June 5, 2013
United Nations Environment Programme

Washington DC / Ulaanbaatar (Mongolia) / Portland / Nairobi – One out of every four calories produced by the global agricultural system is being lost or wasted, according to new analysis. This poses a serious challenge to the planet’s ability to reduce hunger and meet the food needs of a rapidly-expanding global population.

Backing and Enabling Smallholders Can Unleash New and Sustainable Agricultural Revolution

June 4, 2013
United Nations Environment Programme

Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia – Supporting smallholder farmers to play a greater role in food production and natural resource stewardship is one of the quickest ways to lift over one billion people out of poverty and sustainably nourish a growing world population, a new United Nations report released today said.

Back to the Basics

June 1, 2013
By Pankaj Jain
Speaking Tree

PANKAJ JAIN writes that the philosophy of contemporary ecologists echoes M K Gandhi’s promotion and practise of ahimsa

Globe Gears Up For World Environment Day Celebrations

Mongolia Hosting Day Aimed at Reducing Food Waste as Events Take Place across the World
     
United Nations Environment Programme
May 31, 2013

NAIROBI – Hundreds of thousands of people are gearing up across the globe to take part in World Environment Day, the biggest and most widely celebrated global day for positive environmental action.

Commencement Address at the University of Massachusetts at Boston, by James Gustave Speth

Commencement Address by James Gustave Speth

University of Massachusetts at Boston

May 31, 2013

To read this address, visit:
http://fore.research.yale.edu/files/Speth_UMB_Commencement.pdf

Water Ethics Newsletter

May 2013

http://us1.campaign-archive1.com/?u=31982f6e4937945bfaddf6712&id=70bf222ab0&e=495d1f20da

It's time to stop investing in the fossil fuel industry

It makes no sense to pay for one’s pension by investing in companies that make sure we won’t have a planet to retire on

By Bill McKibben
The Guardian
May 30, 2013

Keystone pipeline foe awarded $100K prize

May 28, 2013
By Zack Colman
The Hill

Prominent climate activist and Keystone XL oil sands pipeline opponent Bill McKibben has won a Norway-based prize awarded for environmental work.

McKibben received the Sophie Prize — which comes with a cash award of $100,000 — for his work with 350.org, the climate advocacy group he co-...

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