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Spirituality holds the key to climate change, says UNEP-ROA Director

September 18, 2012
By Henry Neondo
Africa Science News Service

The African Regional Director of the United Nation’s Environment Programme’s Office for Africa Mr Mounkaila Goumandakoye confessed in Nairobi Tuesday that the global community has not succeeded in reversing some of the trends of the environmental degradation because the world has failed to look at the...

Most Widely Ratified Treaty in UN History Marks Silver Jubilee

September 14, 2012
United Nations

PARIS/NAIROBI, 14 September 2012 – Hailed as the most successful treaty in United Nations history – for achieving universal ratification and meeting its targets ahead of schedule – the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer will celebrate its 25th anniversary on 16 September.

The Protocol, which has been ratified by 197...

Religious Ivory Demand Killing Elephants by Thousands, Report Says

 

Despite global ivory ban, tusks carved into Jesuses, prayer beads, amulets.

By Oliver Payne
National Geographic News
September 14, 2012

Opinion: How would Jesus vote?

On climate, Republicans see a hoax and Democrats pay lip service. No vote from Jesus here.

By David Lillard
Blue Ridge Press
September 13, 2012

If there’s one trait politicians of all stripes share, it’s that they all roll out the Good Book when it suits their purposes. For a few election cycles, the GOP claimed to be the Lord’s standard-bearer, but recently people of...

SAFCEI South African Faith Communities Institute Newsletter

September 2012

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National Council of Elders to release Greensboro declaration in three U.S. cities

September 11, 2012
Fellowship of Reconciliation

On Wednesday, September 12, the newly-formed National Council of Elders (NCOE) will release the Greensboro Declaration, the first statement of the organization since its founding a month ago.  The NCOE founding conference was held in Greensboro, NC, site of the historic Greensboro lunch counter sit-ins, which represented a major...

Lockdown on the Pipeline: How a Houston Businessman Helped Shut Down Keystone for a Day

August 31, 2012
By Candice Bernd
Nation of Change

Tar Sands Blockade activists halted Keystone XL construction for a full day on August 28 after locking themselves to a truck carrying pipes in Livingston, Texas.

Newsletter of Friends of the Earth Middle East (FoEME)

 

Contents:

Joint Teacher’s Workshop

FoEME keynote presentation to the Sister Cities International Conference

Building the Water Agenda: Policy responses to water scarcity and shock

FoEME’s SHE Park in Jordan is visited by U.S. students

FoEME Directors speak at Wembley Mosque in London

‘Protecting Ground Water’ completes GIS...

What Can Islam Do For The Environment? Lots, Actually…

August 27, 2012
By Arwa Aburawa
Green Prophet

Answering (or at least attempting to answer) what now feels like an age-old question

Eye on the Sparrow

August 2012
By Beth Norcross
Sojourners magazine

WHEN I READ about the dire impacts of global warming, I think about Howard Thurman. This might be perplexing to those more familiar with Thurman as the author of Jesus and the Disinherited, a book Martin Luther King Jr. was said to carry with him wherever he went.

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