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Open Letter from the Union of BC Indian Chiefs Supporting the Save the Fraser Declaration...

January 10, 2012

OPEN LETTER: The Union of BC Indian Chiefs fully supports the Save the Fraser Declaration, the Coastal First Nations Tanker Ban and the Indigenous laws banning Crude Oil Pipeline and Tanker Shipments through BC

Dear Premier Clark and Prime Minister Harper

Gratitude, Connectedness, and Awe: The Spiritual Side of Sustainability

 

January 2012
By Jay McDaniel
Jesus, Jazz, and Buddhism

A sustainable community can be a household, village, city, bioregion, or nation.  It is a community that is creative, compassionate, participatory, ecologically wise, and spiritually satisfying, with no one left behind. 

Making a Difference with Low Cost Green Actions at Oak Park Temple

January 4, 2012
By Melanie Weiss
Green Community Connections

Many religious congregations in Oak Park and River Forest are tackling green initiatives that reduce, reuse and recycle and at the same time show congregants the importance of living sustainably and caring for Mother Earth.

Oak Park Temple on Harlem Avenue is one example of a local congregation that has...

Euclid Ave UMC Digs Deep to Install Geothermal

January 4, 2012
By Frank Fletcher
Green Community Connections

Community Gardening at Ascension

January 4, 2012
By John Owens
Green Community Connections

Multifaceted Approach at Unity Temple

January 4, 2012
By Anne White
Green Community Connections

Reflecting our interdependent relationship with the Earth

The Green Sanctuary Committee at Unity Temple takes a multifaceted approach to environmental advocacy. The goal of all of our activities is to actively engage our Unitarian Universalist congregation in order to deepen our knowledge about...

Long Islanders rally against hydrofracking in New York State

December 16, 2011
By Karen Rubin
Long Island Populist Examiner

Long Islanders gathered to send a message to Albany that New York State should ban hydraulic fracturing altogether, rather than parse new rules to unleash natural gas extraction companies to dig some 70,000 wells upstate.

Representatives from Food & Water Watch, Grassroots Environmental Education, Reach...

Climate Talks End With Hope for a New More Comprehensive Legally-Binding Agreement

December 11, 2011
United Nations Environment Programme

Significant Emissions Gap However Remains With Doubts on How it Will be Decisively Bridged by 2020

Kyoto Protocol to Continue-But Covers Only a Fraction of the Necessary Global Emissions

Durban - Several key and important steps forward were agreed at the UN climate convention...

Spreading the global warming gospel

A climatologist in West Texas takes on skeptics with scientific data — and her own faith as an evangelical Christian.

By Neela Banerjee
Los Angeles Times
December 7, 2011

Reporting from Lubbock, Texas

When Katharine Hayhoe was faced with telling a group of petroleum engineers in the heart of the Texas oil patch that the main culprit for...

U.S. Believers Favor International Action on Climate Change, Nuclear Risk: UMD Poll

December 7, 2011
University of Maryland Newsdesk

COLLEGE PARK, Md. - A majority of Americans professing belief in God favor cooperative international efforts to combat climate change and the spread of nuclear weapons, says a new public opinion poll conducted jointly by the University of Maryland’s Center for International and Security Studies at...

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