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Ministers Dine on Food Grown in Kenya But Rejected by UK Supermarkets for Cosmetic Reasons

Gourmet Meal at UN Environment Programme Headquarters Highlights Global Campaign to Cut Food Waste

Think.Eat.Save. Reduce Your Foodprint
February 19, 2013

Nairobi – Hundreds of ministers and high-level officials dined on perfectly good food grown by Kenyan farmers but rejected by UK supermarkets due to cosmetic imperfections at the headquarters of the UN...

Jesuits Around the World Newsletter

February 19, 2013
Vol. XVII, No. 4

Where we get our fresh water

February 2013
TED Ed

Fresh water accounts for only 2.5% of Earth’s water, yet it is vital for human civilization. What are our sources of fresh water? In the first of a two part series on fresh water, Christiana Z. Peppard breaks the numbers down and discusses who is using it and to what ends.

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Christiana Peppard, Educator
Jeremy Collins, Animator...

Fresh water scarcity: An introduction to the problem

February 2013
TED Ed

Fresh water is essential for life – and there’s not nearly enough of it for the world right now. Why is that, and what could we do? Christiana Z. Peppard lays out the big questions of our global water problem. And no, shorter showers are not the answer.

Created by:
Christiana Peppard, Educator
Jeremy Collins, Animator

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February Newsletter of the Southern African Faith Communities' Environment Institute (SAFCEI)

February 2013

God and climate change

February 14, 2013
By Robert H. Nelson
USA Today


Obama has brought religion back into the environmental conversation.

 

Sister's Lenten resource brings the Earth and Jesus together

February 13, 2013
By Sharon Abercrombie  
National Catholic Reporter

When a group of religious educators approached Sr. Terri MacKenzie to ask, “What is a good way to teach little children about God?”, MacKenzie, a longtime classroom teacher, had a ready reply: “Don’t look up at the sky while you are talking to them. They will think that God is only ‘up there’ and far, far...

Pope Benedict XVI: the first green pontiff?

From having solar panels installed on the Vatican to addresses on St. Francis of Assisi, patron saint of ecology, the outgoing Pope deserves some credit for his green stance

By Ed King for RTCC
Guardian
February 12, 2013

It’s likely the departing Pope will be remembered for his deep conservatism, prayerfulness and inability or unwillingness to drag the Catholic Church...

Links Between Health and Environment in Focus at Major UN Youth Conference

Launch of GEO-5 for Youth to Showcase Solutions by Young People to Key Environmental Challenges

United Nations Environment Programme
February 11, 2013

Nairobi - Actions to cut food waste and to harness the power of social media to promote sustainable lifestyles are among the issues on the agenda at a major United Nations youth meeting on the environment...

Penn Bioethics Journal Call for Papers (Open to all Undergraduate Students)

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