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Religion, science must unite to save environment

November 18, 2012  
By Michael Swan
The Catholic Register

TORONTO - The difference between right and wrong could be the difference between life and extinction as Earth’s climate continues to spiral out of control, a Yale University professor of forestry and religious studies told a Toronto audience Nov. 9.

Visiting professors bridge religion, environmentalism

November 15, 2012
By Ella Cheng
The Daily Princetonian

The offices of visiting religion professors Mary Evelyn Tucker and John Grim lie next to exhibits of dinosaur skeletons and Darwin’s finches in Guyot Hall, the home of the ecology and evolutionary biology department.

Faith Leaders Call for Statewide Fracking Ban at Spiritual Vigil at Grand Army Plaza Tonight

November 14, 2012
By Will Yakowicz
ParkSlopePatch

Join more than 200 religious leaders to rally against fracking in New York state.

A coalition of diverse organizations that support a fracking ban throughout the state, New Yorkers Against Fracking, is joining together to tell Governor Andrew Cuomo, and other leaders in...

Sacred Natural Sites are critical sanctuaries for African biodiversity, culture and spirituality New

November 13, 2012
By Henry Neondo
Africa Science News Service

World View of Global Warming: The Photographic Documentation of Climate Change, by Gary Braasch

November 2012

Portfolio of images here.

Bolivia: Earth-worshippers in power, sort of

November 2012
By Eileen Lydia Haley
Pagaian.org

This is a written, and slightly adapted, version of a workshop presented at the GAIA Conference (Transformation), Southport, Queensland, Australia on 20 October 2012.

 

In December 2010 the Bolivian Parliament passed the Rights of Mother Earth Act (La Ley de Derechos de la Madre...

'Earth Sabbath' emphasizes care for the planet

By Yonat Shimron
The State Journal-Register
November 9, 2012

RALEIGH, N.C. — The Rev. Steve Halsted lit a candle, led a breathing meditation on the four elements (earth, fire, water and air), and passed around a conch shell, inviting participants to listen for a message inside.

One woman said the sound of a rushing ocean encouraged her to “keep going on.”

Another...

A Wild Love For the World, with Joanna Macy


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Climate debate is based on religion

November 1, 2012
By Anne Ringgaard
ScienceNordic

Religion plays a major part in the climate debate, for instance in our fight to preserve endangered species that have no practical use to humans, argues theologian in a new book.

There may not be any obvious point in trying to preserve annoying insects and slimy maggots. Yet most people believe we should try to save them...

Green Festival, Green Hevra, Green Earth

October 26, 2012
By Rabbi Arthur Waskow
The Shalom Center

Green is the color of today.

Our own Green Hevra, the green of trees and grasses, and the green of Islam in one of its great festivals.

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