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Hanukkah for Healing: The Green Menorah

 

December 3, 2012
By Rabbi Arthur Waskow
The Shalom Center

The Green Menorah Commitment: Action to Avert Global Scorching

The first night of Hanukkah is this coming Saturday night, December 8.

This is the first of two letters urging that to the traditional understandings of Hanukkah, we add seeing it as the time for recommitment...

Orthodox Leader Deepens Progressive Stance on Environment

December 3, 2012
By Marlise Simons
New York Times

At a conference near Istanbul last June, the chimpanzee expert Jane Goodall spoke about the endangered habitat of what she called “our closest relatives.” Underlining the evolutionary link, she described her encounter with a senior male ape who had a “beautiful white beard.”

With a smile, she turned to the 72-year-old...

For 8 days of Hanukkah, my True Love said to me: "Help save My Earth!"

December 3, 2012    
By Rabbi Arthur Waskow
The Shalom Center

Hanukkah’s Light beyond Doha’s Darkness

In Doha, Qatar, yet another conference of all the world’s governments has just ended —  once again failing to take crucial steps to prevent world-wide climate disaster.

Groundworks: Ecological Issues in Philosophy and Theology

New Book Series by Fordham University Press 

Forrest Clingerman and Brian Treanor, Series Editors 

Some wish Islam would inform climate debate

December 1, 2012
By Associated Press

DOHA, Qatar (AP) — At Friday prayers in Qatar’s most popular mosque, the imam discussed the civil war in Syria, the unrest in Egypt and the U.N. endorsement of an independent state of Palestine.

Not a word about climate change, even though the Middle Eastern nation of Qatar is hosting a U.N. conference where nearly 200 countries are...

Emerging Force on Climate Change: Religion, Ecology, Ethics, and Morality

 

November 30, 2012

By Lisa Palmer   

The Yale Forum on Climate Change & The Media


Scholars in the 1990s played a hunch and gave rise to a new field of ecology and religion, some focusing on climate change as a moral issue.

No significant academic field of ecology and religion existed in 1995.

Quakers Oppose Hydrofracking in New York State and Beyond


Urge political representatives to prohibit the practice

November 28, 2012
Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) Press Release

New York, NY – New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (commonly called Quakers) formally opposed the practice of High Volume Hydraulic Fracturing (HVHF, hydrofracking, or fracking) at its Fall Sessions in...

Stand Still for the Apocalypse

November 26, 2012
By Chris Hedges
Truthdig

Humans must immediately implement a series of radical measures to halt carbon emissions or prepare for the collapse of entire ecosystems and the displacement, suffering and death of hundreds of millions of the globe’s inhabitants, according to a report commissioned by the World Bank. The continued failure to respond aggressively to...

Walk Humbly and Live Joyfully on This Earth!

November 2012
Conference of Religious India (CRI)

“Earth-People” a National Consultation by Conference of Religious India (CRI)

Greenhouse Gas Emissions Gap Widening as Nations Head to Crucial Climate Talks in Doha

November 21, 2012
United Nations Environment Programme

Keeping Average Global Temperature Rise to Below 2°C Still Achievable, with Potentially Big Cuts Possible from Buildings, Transportation and Avoided Deforestation–But Time Running Out

Current Pledges by Governments Indicate a 3-5° C Temperature Rise this Century without Fast Action

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