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A village that plants 111 trees for every girl born in Rajasthan

April 11, 2013
By Mahim Pratap Singh
The Hindu

In an atmosphere where every morning, our newspapers greet us with stories of girls being tormented, raped, killed or treated like a doormat in one way or another, trust India’s “village republics” to bring in some good news from time to time.

One such village in southern Rajasthan’s Rajsamand district is quietly...

Stegner Symposium Focuses on Religion, Faith and Environment

Multidisciplinary Event to Include Religious and Secular Leaders and Scholars from Law, Policy, Science, Economics and the Humanities
University of Utah News Center
April 8, 2013  

Desmond Tutu wins $1.7 million Templeton Prize

April 4, 2013
By Maria Golovnina
Reuters

(Reuters) - South African anti-apartheid campaigner Desmond Tutu has won the 2013 Templeton Prize worth $1.7 million for helping inspire people around the world by promoting forgiveness and justice, organizers said on Thursday.

A leading human rights activist of the late 20th century, the former Anglican archbishop of Cape Town...

UN Calls for Accelerated Action with 1,000 Days to Go on Millennium Development Goals

April 3, 2013
United Nations

New York - The United Nations and its partners around the world will observe the 1,000 days to the end of 2015 – the target date for achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) – during the next week to inspire further action.

“The MDGs are the most successful global anti-poverty push in history,” UN Secretary-...

New York Times Articles about Environmental Issues in China

2 Major Air Pollutants Increase in Beijing

April 3, 2013
By Edward Wong
The New York Times

BEIJING — In the first three months of this year, levels of two major air pollutants increased by almost 30 percent here in the Chinese capital, over the same period in 2012, according to a report on Wednesday by a Chinese news organization.

Experiencing Nature

By Laleh
Submitters Perspective
April 2013

http://www.masjidtucson.org/publications/books/sp/2013/apr/page3.html

Rivers are People Too

By Daniel Stone
National Geographic
March 2013

For full article, visit:

http://fore.research.yale.edu/files/Rivers_Are_People_Too.pdf

Call for Papers: Special Issue on Religion, Disability and the Environment

Worldviews: Global Religions, Culture, and Ecology

Submission deadline: November 1, 2013

To read the Call for Papers, visit:
http://fore.research.yale.edu/files/CFPWorldviewsEcoDis.pdf

Practicing Ahimsa: Nonviolence toward Humans, Animals, and Earth

March 2013
By Pankaj Jain, University of North Texas
Religious Studies News, AAR

Pope Francis Opens Ministry: "Let Us Be Protectors"

Pope Francis says during installation Mass that “authentic power is service” and urges protection for the environment and the poor.

By Nicole Winfield
NBC Bay Area
March 26, 2013

Pope Francis urged princes, presidents, sheiks and thousands of ordinary people gathered for his installation Mass on Tuesday to protect the environment, the weakest and the poorest, mapping...

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