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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...

"Together at the Table" -- John Elder Speaks to Nourish New Haven

http://youtu.be/Lpk5A3E8wbk
John Elder, celebrated Middlebury College professor and Orion Magazine advisor, delivered the opening remarks at the Nourish New Haven local food justice and sustainability conference February 22, 2013.  Held at Yale Divinity School, the conference connected...

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. 

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