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Groundworks: Ecological Issues in Philosophy and Theology

New Book Series by Fordham University Press 

Forrest Clingerman and Brian Treanor, Series Editors 

Some wish Islam would inform climate debate

December 1, 2012
By Associated Press

DOHA, Qatar (AP) — At Friday prayers in Qatar’s most popular mosque, the imam discussed the civil war in Syria, the unrest in Egypt and the U.N. endorsement of an independent state of Palestine.

Not a word about climate change, even though the Middle Eastern nation of Qatar is hosting a U.N. conference where nearly 200 countries are...

Emerging Force on Climate Change: Religion, Ecology, Ethics, and Morality

 

November 30, 2012

By Lisa Palmer   

The Yale Forum on Climate Change & The Media


Scholars in the 1990s played a hunch and gave rise to a new field of ecology and religion, some focusing on climate change as a moral issue.

No significant academic field of ecology and religion existed in 1995.

Quakers Oppose Hydrofracking in New York State and Beyond


Urge political representatives to prohibit the practice

November 28, 2012
Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) Press Release

New York, NY – New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (commonly called Quakers) formally opposed the practice of High Volume Hydraulic Fracturing (HVHF, hydrofracking, or fracking) at its Fall Sessions in...

Stand Still for the Apocalypse

November 26, 2012
By Chris Hedges
Truthdig

Humans must immediately implement a series of radical measures to halt carbon emissions or prepare for the collapse of entire ecosystems and the displacement, suffering and death of hundreds of millions of the globe’s inhabitants, according to a report commissioned by the World Bank. The continued failure to respond aggressively to...

Walk Humbly and Live Joyfully on This Earth!

November 2012
Conference of Religious India (CRI)

“Earth-People” a National Consultation by Conference of Religious India (CRI)

Greenhouse Gas Emissions Gap Widening as Nations Head to Crucial Climate Talks in Doha

November 21, 2012
United Nations Environment Programme

Keeping Average Global Temperature Rise to Below 2°C Still Achievable, with Potentially Big Cuts Possible from Buildings, Transportation and Avoided Deforestation–But Time Running Out

Current Pledges by Governments Indicate a 3-5° C Temperature Rise this Century without Fast Action

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...

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