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The world cannot wait - climate change is happening!

December 7, 2012
World Council of Churches
 
Statement from the World Council of Churches
To the High-Level Ministerial Segment of the
18th Session of the Conference of the Parties – COP18 to the UNFCCC
8th Session of the Meeting of the Parties – CMP8 to the Kyoto Protocol
Doha – Qatar

Mr President, His Excellency Abdullah Bin Hamad Al-Attiyah...

Walking Back from the Climate Cliff: "Pray-In" at the White House, January 15

 

December 6, 2012

By Rabbi Arthur Waskow

The Shalom Center


To put the bottom line first: Below is an invitation to join in  and/or support a Multi-faith Pray-in for the Climate at the White House on January 15.

Preparing the Ground for Fifty Great Days for the Earth: Churches Plan for UCC's Mission 4/1 Earth

December 5, 2012
By Eric Anderson
The Connecticut Conference United Church Center

WEST HARTFORD – Over twenty-five ordained and lay church leaders took first steps on Monday night toward a bold project in which they’ll engage next spring. Mission 4/1 Earth, said the United Church of Christ’s Minister for Environmental...

Hanukkah for Healing: The Green Menorah

 

December 3, 2012
By Rabbi Arthur Waskow
The Shalom Center

The Green Menorah Commitment: Action to Avert Global Scorching

The first night of Hanukkah is this coming Saturday night, December 8.

This is the first of two letters urging that to the traditional understandings of Hanukkah, we add seeing it as the time for recommitment...

Orthodox Leader Deepens Progressive Stance on Environment

December 3, 2012
By Marlise Simons
New York Times

At a conference near Istanbul last June, the chimpanzee expert Jane Goodall spoke about the endangered habitat of what she called “our closest relatives.” Underlining the evolutionary link, she described her encounter with a senior male ape who had a “beautiful white beard.”

With a smile, she turned to the 72-year-old...

For 8 days of Hanukkah, my True Love said to me: "Help save My Earth!"

December 3, 2012    
By Rabbi Arthur Waskow
The Shalom Center

Hanukkah’s Light beyond Doha’s Darkness

In Doha, Qatar, yet another conference of all the world’s governments has just ended —  once again failing to take crucial steps to prevent world-wide climate disaster.

Groundworks: Ecological Issues in Philosophy and Theology

New Book Series by Fordham University Press 

Forrest Clingerman and Brian Treanor, Series Editors 

Some wish Islam would inform climate debate

December 1, 2012
By Associated Press

DOHA, Qatar (AP) — At Friday prayers in Qatar’s most popular mosque, the imam discussed the civil war in Syria, the unrest in Egypt and the U.N. endorsement of an independent state of Palestine.

Not a word about climate change, even though the Middle Eastern nation of Qatar is hosting a U.N. conference where nearly 200 countries are...

Emerging Force on Climate Change: Religion, Ecology, Ethics, and Morality

 

November 30, 2012

By Lisa Palmer   

The Yale Forum on Climate Change & The Media


Scholars in the 1990s played a hunch and gave rise to a new field of ecology and religion, some focusing on climate change as a moral issue.

No significant academic field of ecology and religion existed in 1995.

Quakers Oppose Hydrofracking in New York State and Beyond


Urge political representatives to prohibit the practice

November 28, 2012
Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) Press Release

New York, NY – New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (commonly called Quakers) formally opposed the practice of High Volume Hydraulic Fracturing (HVHF, hydrofracking, or fracking) at its Fall Sessions in...

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