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World Heritage Committee Decision on Selous Game Reserve Boundary Changes

July 30, 2012
Uranium-Network Press Release

Elephants, Rhinos and the environment under threat from 60 million tons of radioactive waste as World Heritage Committee agrees boundary change that will allow uranium mining at the Tanzania Selous Game Reserve - a World Heritage site.

"Zen Buddhist Temple in Pennsylvania Endangered by Natural Gas Fracking": An open letter

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“Zen Buddhist Temple in Pennsylvania Endangered by Natural Gas Fracking”: An open letter to the American Buddhist community

Shambhala Sun Foundation
July 26, 2012

Buddhist teachers Rev. Dai-en Bennage, Rev. Daishin McCabe, Rev. Norman Fischer, Roshi Joan Halifax, Jack Kornfield, Rev. Taigen Dan Leighton, David...

Convention moves to balance 'environmental' and 'economic' justice

July 20, 2012
By Lynette Wilson
Episcopal News Service

In the past 20 years the state of Iowa has experienced three crisis-level floods, the latest, in 2008, put nearly a third of the state underwater.

The Real Environmental Crisis: Lessons From the Green Patriarch

July 6, 2012
By Krista Tippett
The Huffington Post

Earlier this month, His All Holiness Bartholomew, the Patriarch of 300 million Eastern Orthodox Christians, convened a two-day conversation on “environment, ethics and innovation.” We gathered on the tiny, ancient island of Heybeliada off Istanbul, which was once the Patriarch’s Constantinople and before that New Rome.

Sacred Site Research Newsletter

July 2012

http://fore.research.yale.edu/files/SSiReN_Issue1.pdf

 

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Standing with Kivalina at the 77th General Convention

June 29, 2012
By P. Joshua Griffin
Episcopal News Service

As forest fires rage across Colorado and unprecedented storms pummel the country from Florida to Minnesota, it’s pretty clear we are facing a “new normal.” It’s also increasingly obvious that climate change is not so much about future generations as it is about our most marginalized brothers and sisters, right here,...

Preachable Moments: Evangelical Christians and Climate Change

June 28, 2012
By Lisa Palmer
The Yale Forum on Climate Change & the Media

Climate change has caused rifts among evangelical Christians, who are sharply divided on the topic. But more evangelicals now are examining a Christian response to the threat posed by a warming atmosphere.

Religion and Environmental Stewardship Symposium: "Roll up our sleeves, there's work to be done."

June 28, 2012
By Steve Blackmer
Yale University Notes from the Quad

Green spirituality and the limits to modernity

June 26, 2012
By James Miller
Sustainable China

Maya Lin: A Memorial to A Vanishing Natural World

By Diane Toomey
Yale Environment 360
June 25, 2012

The designer of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial is now focused on the mass extinction of species, a threat she is highlighting on an interactive Web site. In an interview with Yale Environment 360, Maya Lin talks about her “What is Missing” project, which she calls her “last memorial.”

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