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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...

Anti-extraction movement in the US gains momentum

March 25, 2013
By Eric Moll
The Ecologist

Protests against fracked-gas pipelines in Pennsylvania and New Jersey are part of a growing movement of direct-action resistance to extraction. Insider Eric Moll reports from the Frontline of the resistance

Dozens Arrested as Keystone XL Protests Erupt Across the U.S.

March 24, 2013
Nation of Change

One month after the largest climate rally in U.S. history urging President Obama to deny the permit for the Keystone XL pipeline’s northern segment,...

Water as vital to national security as defence - UN

* Shared rivers, aquifers face strains from more demand

* 145 countries share river basins with neighbours

* U.N. issues first definition of water security

By Environment Correspondent Alister Doyle
Reuters
March 22, 2013

OSLO - Stresses on water supplies aggravated by climate change are likely to cause more conflicts and water should be considered as...

Bruno Latour thinks about the Anthropocene

March 22, 2013
By Garry Peterson
Resilience Science

Bruno Latour‘s Gifford Lectures Facing Gaia: A new enquiry into Natural Religion, which were given at University of Edinburgh over the last few months are now on the web.

Pope Francis Raises Hopes for an Ecological Church

March 22, 2013
By Marcela Valente
Inter Press Service

BUENOS AIRES - The new pope’s choice of the name Francis, to honour the Catholic Church’s patron saint of animals and the environment, has awakened the hopes of ecologists and others who are concerned about rampant consumerism and the deterioration of the planet.

First Nations say they will fight oilsands, pipeline

Minister of Natural Resources says pipeline projects are in First Nations’ economic interest

The Canadian Press
March 20, 2013

An alliance of First Nations leaders is preparing to fight proposed new pipelines in the courts and through unspecified direct action.

Native leaders from Canada and the United States were on Parliament Hill on Wednesday to underline...

Water Ethics Newsletter

March 2013

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Australian Pioneer Honoured for Philanthropic Work

March 19, 2013
Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics
Press Release

The Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics is delighted to announce Australian philanthropic pioneer Philip Wollen as its seventh Honorary Fellow.  The award is given to individuals who have made an outstanding contribution to the protection of animals.

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