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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...

Young People Representing Half the Planet Campaign to Make Rio+20 a Green Economy Hit

October 1, 2011
United Nations Environment Programme

Social Networking to Mobilizing Communities Spotlighted to Awaken World Leaders to Back a Sustainable Century

UNEP Tunza International Children and Youth Conference

27 September to 1 October 2011

Bandung, Indonesia -While some UN conferences can become over-preoccupied with...

Wangari Maathai: The Tree that Became a Forest

Pambazuka News
Issue 550
September 29, 2011

The following tributes to Wangari Maathai have been published in  Pambazuka News (English edition), the authoritative electronic weekly newsletter and platform for social justice in Africa.

WANGARI MAATHAI: RECLAIMING THE EARTH

Horace Campbell

‘The best tribute we can pay to this great woman of Africa is to...

Happy Birthday Confucius

September 28, 2011
By Craig Feguson
Craig Ferguson Images

Spiritual Environmentalism: Healing Ourselves by Replenishing the Earth

Wangari Maathai: What role does spirituality play in our work to heal the earth?

By Wangari Maathai
Yes! Magazine
Posted: June 3, 2011
Updated: September 26, 2011 

Editor’s Note: Wangari Maathai, the Kenyan activist and 2004 winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, passed away on September 25. In this essay from her book...

UNEP Pays Tribute to Professor Wangari Maathai

September 26, 2011
United Nations Environment Programme

Nairobi - Professor Wangari Maathai, Nobel Peace Prize laureate, founder of Kenya’s Green Belt Movement and patron of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Billion Tree Campaign, has died in Nairobi. She was 71 years old.

Professor Maathai was one of Africa’s foremost environmental campaigners...

A Pastoral Teaching from the House of Bishops of The Episcopal Church

September 2011
Episcopal Church Office of Public Affairs

The Episcopal Church House of Bishops, meeting in Province IX, in Quito, Ecuador, issued the following Pastoral Teaching:


A Pastoral Teaching from the House of Bishops of The Episcopal Church
Quito, Ecuador

We, your bishops, believe these words of Jeremiah describe these times and...

Clean Earth to Till: An Environmental Vision of Redemption

September 2011
By Rabbi Lawrence Troster
Jewcology

On the Immorality of Fracking

September 20, 2011
By Br. Dave Andrews
Sojourners

Illness among people and livestock.

Tainted drinking water.

Explosions and fires.

These are some of the discovered effects of hydraulic fracking – a growing, and increasingly controversial, method of harnessing natural gas for energy production.

Yet as more policymakers explore the so-called benefits...

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