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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...

Religions seen slow to go green; Pope has chance to inspire


By Environment Correspondent Alister Doyle
Reuters
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Hope is the thing with feathers

Spring 2013
Loyola Magazine

The American Goldfinch is one of 69 bird species documented at Loyola’s Retreat and Ecology Campus.

Despite several degrees and years of experience that indicate otherwise, Stephen Mitten, S.J., doesn’t think of himself strictly as a scientist. “I see myself more as a naturalist,” he says. “I’m an ambassador for the environment.”

"Wherefore Environmental Studies in a 21st Century City?"

June 2013
By Julianne Lutz Warren
Center for Humans & Nature

Those familiar with the works of Aldo Leopold will see that the idea and title for this writing spring from his 1947 “Wherefore Wildlife Ecology?” written to his students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The following words are dedicated to the young adults of another century in another place—my...

World Environment Week Newsletter 2013

SAFCEI (South African Faith Communities Institute)

June 2013

http://www.safcei.org.za/

http://us6.campaign-archive1.com/?u=887c3de8b0&id=a6183d82b6&e=d85b57a294

Green Church Newsletter

June 2013

http://egliseverte-greenchurch.ca/green/index.php?option=com_acymailing&ctrl=archive&task=view&mailid=38&key=c8d2bc4848016f88d75fb6442e1ca00d&...

WWF's engagement with faithful youth and launch of the Youth Pledge


June 13, 2013
World Wildlife Fund

Unlikely Alliances: Idle No More and Building Bridges Through Native Sovereignty

June 12, 2013
By Zoltan Grossman
CounterPunch

“The natural resources we all depend upon must be protected for future generations….to bring us to a place where there is a quality of life, and where Indians and non-Indians are to understand one another and work together.”

    – Billy Frank, Jr. (Nisqually)

Sustainability: A spiritual perspective (Interview with John Grim)

Fire It Up With CJ
June 12, 2013

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