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UNEP Strengthened and Upgraded to Implement The Future We Want

February 22, 2012
United Nations Environment Programme

Nairobi - Starting from  an office above a supermarket 40 years-ago, the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) was today modernized into a strengthened and upgraded institution better able to meet the challenges and opportunities of the 21st century.

The decision, by ministers of the environment meeting at the UNEP Governing...

Forward on Climate Rally, Washington DC -- February 17, 2013

February 21, 2013
Genesis Farm Reflection

In these opening years of the twenty-first century, as the human community experiences a rather difficult situation in its relation with the natural world, we might reflect that a fourfold wisdom is available to guide us into the future: the wisdom of indigenous peoples, the wisdom of women, the wisdom of the classical traditions and...

Operation Noah backs call for decarbonisation target in Energy Bill

February 20, 2013
Press Release

Today, many NGOs, faith groups and organisations have issued a joint statement calling on the Government to commit the UK to a near carbon free power sector by 2030. 

Ministers Dine on Food Grown in Kenya But Rejected by UK Supermarkets for Cosmetic Reasons

Gourmet Meal at UN Environment Programme Headquarters Highlights Global Campaign to Cut Food Waste

Think.Eat.Save. Reduce Your Foodprint
February 19, 2013

Nairobi – Hundreds of ministers and high-level officials dined on perfectly good food grown by Kenyan farmers but rejected by UK supermarkets due to cosmetic imperfections at the headquarters of the UN...

Jesuits Around the World Newsletter

February 19, 2013
Vol. XVII, No. 4

Where we get our fresh water

February 2013
TED Ed

Fresh water accounts for only 2.5% of Earth’s water, yet it is vital for human civilization. What are our sources of fresh water? In the first of a two part series on fresh water, Christiana Z. Peppard breaks the numbers down and discusses who is using it and to what ends.

Created by:
Christiana Peppard, Educator
Jeremy Collins, Animator...

Fresh water scarcity: An introduction to the problem

February 2013
TED Ed

Fresh water is essential for life – and there’s not nearly enough of it for the world right now. Why is that, and what could we do? Christiana Z. Peppard lays out the big questions of our global water problem. And no, shorter showers are not the answer.

Created by:
Christiana Peppard, Educator
Jeremy Collins, Animator

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February Newsletter of the Southern African Faith Communities' Environment Institute (SAFCEI)

February 2013

God and climate change

February 14, 2013
By Robert H. Nelson
USA Today


Obama has brought religion back into the environmental conversation.

 

Sister's Lenten resource brings the Earth and Jesus together

February 13, 2013
By Sharon Abercrombie  
National Catholic Reporter

When a group of religious educators approached Sr. Terri MacKenzie to ask, “What is a good way to teach little children about God?”, MacKenzie, a longtime classroom teacher, had a ready reply: “Don’t look up at the sky while you are talking to them. They will think that God is only ‘up there’ and far, far...

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