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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.”

Earth Charter and Rio 2012

June 2012
The Earth Charter Initiative

EVENTS AT RIO

Inclusive Green Economy Given Go Ahead by Heads of State at Rio+20

June 22, 2012
United Nations Environment Programme

Rio de Janeiro - The Rio+ 20 Summit ended today with a range of outcomes which, if embraced over the coming months and years, offer the opportunity to catalyze pathways towards a more sustainable 21st century.

Heads of State and more than 190 nations gave the green light to a Green Economy in the context of sustainable...

SGI Activities at Rio+20 UN Conference on Sustainable Development

June 22, 2012
Soka Gakkai International

From June 20-22, the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD) took place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The event marked the 20th anniversary of the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) also held in Rio de Janeiro. The Rio+20 conference focused on two themes: a green economy in the context of...

Vatican position for Rio+20 conference: Beware of 'green protectionism'

By Cindy Wooden
June 14, 2012
Catholic News Service

VATICAN CITY (CNS) – As the international community looks for ways to protect the environment while promoting development, it must keep the good of human beings and the protection of human dignity as its central goals, according to the Vatican.

'The Future We Want': Christians speak out on Rio+20

June 13, 2012
By Alex Green
Ekklesia

This month (20-22 June 2012), against a backdrop of severe ecological and financial crises, world governments are meeting in Rio, Brazil, trying to reach an agreement to secure a sustainable future for the planet and its people.

The original Rio Earth Summit in 1992 addressed a number of emerging problems. Many of these are now...

For the Future of Our Planet, a Dialogue Between Generations

June 8, 2012
By Desmond Tutu
Huffington Post

The month of June is upon us and as Rio+20, the UN Conference on Sustainable Development, draws nearer, I find myself reflecting on the many great changes the past 20 years have brought, since that first Earth Summit, also in Rio, when the world met to announce...

Karmapa addresses Khoryug Conference on Environmental Protection

June 6, 2012
Shambhala Sun Foundation

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