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New UNEP Report Tracks the Changing Global Environment over the Past Two Decades

November 1, 2011
United Nations Environment Programme

Nairobi - The environmental changes that have swept the planet over the last twenty years are spotlighted in a new compilation of statistical data by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), released today in a report entitled “Keeping Track of our Changing Environment: From Rio to Rio+20”.

The Green Profile of the Grand Mufti of Egypt

October 2011
By Moshe Terdiman
Green Compass Research

Introduction

Sheikh Ali Gomaa is the Grand Mufti of Egypt since September 2003 and one of the highest ranking and respected religious authorities throughout the Sunni world. He holds the second highest religious position in Egypt, after that of Sheikh al-Azhar. As the Grand Mufti...

Climate change is at its root a spiritual crisis

October 28, 2011
World Council of Churches

Member churches of the World Council of Churches (WCC) in Canada join hands with faith leaders, politicians and civil society actors to stress a “moral responsibility to address global warming”, which they call “a spiritual crisis”. Together they prepared a “Canadian Interfaith Call for Leadership and Action on Climate Change” on...

Sacred natural sites raise interest of scientists in Zurich

October 27, 2011
SacredNaturalSites.org

Religion and Environment

By Willis Jenkins and Christopher Key Chapple

Annual Review of Environment and Resources

Vol. 36: 441-463 (Volume publication date November 2011)

First published online as a Review in Advance on August 1, 2011

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Simchat Torah: Remembering Creation One More Time

October 19, 2011
Rabbi Lawrence Troster
Huffington Post

Simchat Torah is the last celebration of the Jewish High Holiday season. Created in Babylonia during the early middle ages, it is a holiday that marks the end of the yearly cycle of reading the Torah with end of Deuteronomy and then beginning the new cycle of reading with Genesis 1 once more.

Church leaders want action regarding climate change

October 17, 2011
By Malungelo Booi
Eyewitness News

Church leaders want world leaders to come up with a binding agreement in dealing with the problem of climate change.
 
Religious leaders launched a campaign called “We have faith - act now for climate justice” on Monday.
 
The campaign aims to put pressure on the 17th Conference of the Parties to the...

"Water, Water Everywhere and Nor any Drop to Drink": Praying for Rain...

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“Water, Water Everywhere and Nor any Drop to Drink”: Praying for Rain at the Right Time and in the Right Amount

October 2011
Rabbi Lawrence Troster
Jewcology

UNEP Joins 7 Billion Actions Campaign to Show Opportunities and Challenges at Population Milestone

October 6, 2011
United Nations Environment Programme

Nairobi, 6 October 2011 - The world population is set to hit 7 billion on 31 October 2011, bringing into sharp focus the challenges of ensuring sustainable development and a fair share of the planet’s resources for a growing global population. The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has today joined the 7...

Green Pilgrimage Network launch in Assisi end October 2011

October 6, 2011
Alliance of Religions and Conservation Press Release

The first global network aimed at greening pilgrimage – the largest movement of people worldwide – will be launched in the presence of His Royal Highness The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh KG, KT, at the Sacred Land celebration in Assisi, Italy, from October 31 to November 2, 2011. The event is organised by the...

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