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Pollution and Purity

March 15, 2013
By Sarandha
Himal SouthAsian

As millions bathe in the sacred rivers they themselves have polluted during the Kumbh Mela, where does the schism between Hindu notions of nature and actual nature conservation lie?

Veer Bhadra Mishra consigned to flames

March 15, 2013
By Binay Singh
Times of India

VARANASI: Pandit Veer Bhadra Mishra, eminent environmentalist, member of National Ganga River Basin Authority, and the founder-president of Sankat Mochan Foundation, was on Thursday cremated along the river that he fought all his life for to conserve and save from degradation. He was 74.

National Consultation: Water, Livelihoods and Climate Change

Tarun Bharat Sangh, Bheekampura, Alwar, Rajasthan

13th and 14th March, 2013

For the report, visit:
http://fore.research.yale.edu/files/March2013__consultation_on_water_livelihood_climate_change.pdf

 

Yamuna Bachao Yatra to protest at Jantar Mantar to highlight plight of the river

March 11, 2013    
India Today

After camping outside Delhi at Sarai Khawaja in Faridabad on Sunday, the Yamuna Bachao Yatra that started from Mathura will enter the capital on Monday. The yatra aims at creating awareness to save the “...

Solastalgia and Creative Response

March 7, 2013
Living Hero

To listen to this podcast, visit:

http://jari.podbean.com/2013/03/07/solastalgia-and-creative-response/

 

Solar Panels Rare Amid the Steeples

March 6, 2013
By Kate Galbraith
New York Times

Together at the Table: YDS students, New Haven community celebrate food justice

March 2013
By James Jenkins ’15 M.Div.
Yale University Notes from the Quad

[Editor’s Note: James Jenkins ’15 M.Div. is Sustainability Coordinator at YDS. We have invited him to periodically share about the various projects YDS Sustainability coordinates.] 

U.S. Ag-Gag Laws "Sinister" say Leading Academics

March 1, 2013
Press Release
Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics

Leading academics have branded United States “Ag-gag” laws, now in force in Iowa and Utah and awaiting consideration in other U.S. states, that make it a criminal offence to photograph or make a sound or video recording of an animal facility without the owner’s permission, as “sinister”.

How Green Was the 'Green Pope'?

One of Benedict’s lasting legacies might be how he steered the global debate over climate change.

By Daniel Stone
National Geographic News
February 28, 2013

EQAT's Campaign 2013: Fast, Demand, Shadow

February 27, 2013
By greenpnc
Earth Quaker Action Team (EQAT) Blog

EQAT’s Bank Like Appalachia Matters campaign aims to end PNC Bank’s financing of mountaintop removal coal mining. PNC’s investment strategy not only destroys mountains, communities, and people’s health and well-being - it is a fundamentally risky business investment, as the cost of global warming begins to...

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