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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...

Cultivating a Better America

July 2013
By Danny Duncan Collum
Sojourners Magazine

According to Wendell Berry, all you need to have hope is one good example.

When creation speaks to us

Can we listen to others as we discover responsibility?

By Mark S. Hanson, presiding bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America    
The Lutheran
July 2013

As I read “Environmental urgency” (page 20), I asked my wife Ione, “What do you think I could write about creation that would be hopeful and helpful?”

Immediately she responded: “Creation speaks to us...

UN, Major Investment Firms Call for Increased Focus on Carbon Risk Management and Carbon Accounting

July 19, 2013

United Nations Environment Programme

http://www.unepfi.org/fileadmin/climatechange/UNEP_FI_Investor_Briefing_Press_Release_-_19_July_2013.pdf

Southern African Faith Communities' Environment Institute (SAFCEI)

July 2013 Newsletter

http://us6.campaign-archive1.com/?u=887c3de8b0&id=c25b480e90&e=a758405790

Sacred Sites Research Newsletter (SSIREN)

July 2013

'Blessing the facts,' evangelical scientists urge Congress to reduce carbon emissions

July 15, 2013
By Coleen Jose
Environmental & Energy Daily

Evangelical scientists have urged members of Congress to act on climate change in a letter calling for legislation to reduce carbon emissions and protect the environment.

The 200 signatories said they aim to bridge the gap between...

Interfaith Perspectives on Our Ecological Disaster

July 13, 2013
By John Dear
Huffington Post

“Everybody’s told me over and over and over again, it’s a done deal, it’s going to happen, how childish it is for everyone to protest it.” That’s what Bill McKibben, founder of the group 350.org and one of our leading environmental activists, told the New York Times a few days ago, referring to President Obama’s upcoming...

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