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Energy Vision Statement Call for Signatures

Center for Interfaith Relations
December 2013

Show your support and sign the statement by December 6: http://www.lorettocommunity.org/energy/

New Documentary Asks, Will We Have Wisdom to Survive?

December 2013
Press Release

Release Date: Nov. 1, 2013

Contact: Angela Alston, 718-407-0670, angela at mocamedia.tv

 

Operation Noah questions biased survey on church divestment from fossil fuels

December 10, 2013
Operation Noah Press Release

The Church of England’s Ethical Investment Advisory Group (EIAG) has shown itself to be biased and ill-informed when it comes to fossil fuel disinvestment, says Operation Noah.

The EIAG is reviewing its policy advice on climate change for the Church’s national investing bodies. As part of the process it has just produced a...

Founders of Yale Forum on Religion and Ecology to discuss Thomas Berry and the New Story of Our Time

December 10, 2013
Press Release

CONTACT: Rachel Myslivy 785-764-2055 MysRachel@gmail.com

Lawrence, Kansas  – Mary Evelyn Tucker and John Grim, Founders of the Yale Forum on Religion and Ecology, will present a community...

BeFriending Creation

Bi-monthly newsletter of Quaker Earthcare Witness

Volume 26, Number 6

November - December 2013

http://www.quakerearthcare.org/bfc/volume-26-number-6

New Report Offers Menu of Solutions to Close the Global Food Gap

Actions Needed to Improve Food Production and Consumption to Close the Projected 70 Percent Gap by 2050

United Nations Environment Programme
Press Release
December 3, 2013

Major New Review of Ethics of Animal Testing Research

December 3, 2013
Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics

A new review of the ethics of the use of animals in research is being pioneered by an international group of academics.

The rigorous academic document — one of the first to address the ethics of animal testing at length — will be produced by a Working Group of 18 international academics from six countries under the leadership...

8 Days of Hanukkah, my True Love said to me:"Please heal My Earth!"

November 27, 2013
By Rabbi Arthur Waskow
The Shalom Center

Hanukkah brings with it again this year three crucial teachings about healing our Mother Earth from the ravages of global scorching

Religious leaders urged to aid Earth

November 24, 2013
By Christy Brown
Courier-journal.com

Editor’s note: Last week, Christy Brown of Louisville delivered the keynote address at the Religions for Peace Ninth World Assembly in Vienna, Austria. More than 600 international religious leaders and other concerned governmental and non-governmental representatives met to “advance multi-religious action for the...

Green Church Newsletter

November 2013

http://egliseverte-greenchurch.ca/green/index.php?option=com_acymailing&ctrl=archive&task=view&mailid=42&key=e3c6be032db2d1ae4d52b2404193f45d...

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