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Traditional Cultures Can Show Wasteful World How to Preserve Food

Ahead of World Environment Day, UNEP Showcases Methods such as Condensing Cows, Storing Seabirds in Sealskins and Freeze-Drying Potatoes in the Open Air

United Nations Environment Programme
May 21, 2013

Nairobi - From condensing the meat of whole cow to the size of a human fist, to preserving seabirds in sealskins, there are hundreds of ways in which...

The Serious Challenge of Our Time

By Wes Jackson
Commencement Address – University of Kansas
May 19, 2013

To read the address, visit:

http://fore.research.yale.edu/files/WJackson–KU_Commencement.pdf

Exciting results from working with Muslims in Sumatra on eco-programs

May 10, 2013
Alliance of Religions and Conservation

A new report by the Darwin Initiative (DI) shows the exciting results they saw when they ran a major project to engage faith leaders in Indonesia in environmental action.

What Hope Requires of Us

An Address by Steven C. Rockefeller

“Prosperous Lowcountry, Flourishing Planet”

South Carolina Coastal Conservation League Conference

May 8-9, 2013

To read the PDF, visit:
http://fore.research.yale.edu/files/Rockefeller_CCL_5-14-2013.pdf

Faith-based groups play key role in advancing development goals, UNDP chief says

May 3, 2013
United Nations Development Programme

Episcopal Church, Church of Sweden, ELCA commitment: "Sustaining hope in the face of climate change"

May 2, 2013
The Episcopal Church
Office of Public Affairs

The heads of three religious denominations - The Episcopal Church, the Church of Sweden, and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) – signed a joint statement “to celebrate our commitment to hope in the face of climate change.”

Dharma and Ecology Interview with Pankaj Jain

May 2, 2013
DesiplazaTV

DesiplazaTV is an Indian American TV Company in the Dallas-Fort Worth Area, TX, USA

Feeding our Imagination

May 2013
By Mallory McDuff
Sojourners Magazine

Fiction with a climate change theme.

The Battle is Joined

May 2013
By Bill McKibben
Sojourners Magazine

We can see in our mind’s eye all the generations to come, and so we know why we fight.

For God So Loved the World

May 2013
By Rose Marie Berger
Sojourners Magazine

What will it take to push back climate change? A Spirit-driven ‘power shift’ might be a key.

 

NEW YORK CITY has been bombed at least twice in the past decade. First by al Qaeda and second by Hurricane Sandy.

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