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Editorial from Journal of Animal Ethics: Leading Animal Ethicists Call for Full Disclosure on Testin

October 2, 2012
Press Release

Patients prescribed drugs tested on animals should be told details of exactly what it involved, including any suffering caused, say some of the world’s leading animal ethicists.

Proclamation on Native American Heritage Day by California Governor Jerry Brown

October 1, 2012
By Gov. Jerry Brown
Indian Country Today Media Network

California has been home to human beings for at least 12,000 years, with the period of European-American settlement representing only a tiny fraction of this time. The first Europeans to arrive in California encountered hundreds of thousands of people organized into hundreds of distinct tribal groups. They...

Oxford theologian calls for national animal cruelty offenders' register

September 27, 2012
Independent Catholic News

A call for a national animal cruelty offenders’ register will be made by Professor Andrew Linzey, a theologian at Oxford University and the director of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics, in an address at St Albans Cathedral on Sunday 30 September.

The Animal Offenders’ register is recommended, along with compulsory empathy...

Philosophy and Religion Department Chair Position Announcement

Philosophy and Religion

Department Chair Position Announcement

Fall 2013

 

God and mammals: In Kenya, religious leaders pray to thwart poaching

African religious leaders toured Kenya’s Nairobi National Park to learn about the urgent threat to elephants and rhinos from poaching – and to share ideas about using their moral clout to stop it.

By Mike Pflanz
Christian Science Monitor
September 23, 2012

Nairobi, Kenya

Environmental Satellite Cooperation Circle Announces 2012 Environmental Seed Grant Awards

September 21, 2012
United Religions Initiative

In the spirit of “Sustainable Peace for a Sustainable Environment,” the theme of this year’s United Nations International Day of Peace, the Environmental Satellite Cooperation Circle announced the recipients of the 2012...

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...

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