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The Religion and Ecology of the Blang Minority Nationality

August 16, 2011
By James Miller
Sustainable China blog

Holy Land Council in Jerusalem tackles climate change

August 1, 2011
China Daily

JERUSALEM (Xinhua) – The Council of Religious Institutions of the Holy Land (CRIHL), an interfaith committee situated in Jerusalem that includes the chief leaders of Islam, Christianity and Judaism, recently endorsed the Declaration on Climate Change to promote environmental sustainability, and some believe it might lead to positive spillover in regional...

World Sacred Forests Mapped Out

August 1, 2011
By David A Gabel
Environmental News Network

A team of scientists from the University of Oxford are working on a world map which shows all the land owned or revered by various world religions. This “holy map” will display all the sacred sites from Jerusalem’s Western Wall, to Masjid al-Haram in Mecca, to St. Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City. Just as interesting,...

Coming Together to Pray, and Also to Find Reduced-Rate Energy Deals

July 30, 2011
By Mireya Navarro
New York Times

WASHINGTON — Like manna from heaven, thousands of dollars in new revenue is raining on a group of congregations here from the unlikeliest of sources: the utility bill.

The windfall arose after 11 churches and a nonprofit youth group got together to solicit reduced-rate bids for electricity — most of it from renewable...

Take Back the Airwaves!

July 29, 2011
By Duane Elgin
Huffington Post

Gordon Kaufman, Leading Theologian, Dies

July 28, 2011
Harvard Divinity School Communications

Gordon Dester Kaufman, Edward Mallinckrodt, Jr. Professor of Divinity Emeritus at Harvard Divinity School, died on Friday, July 22, at age 86.

A Victory for Protection of Sogorea Te

July 20, 2011
Press Release

After 98 days and nights of a continuous prayer vigil, the Committee to Protect Glen Cove is pleased to announce a victory in the struggle to protect the sacred grounds of Sogorea Te/Glen Cove.

'Waking-Up' to a Conscious Future

By Dennis Kingsley
Huffington Post
July 19, 2011

Ethical Responsibility And Climate Change: We're All In The Same Boat

July 13, 2011
By Rabbi Lawrence Troster
Huffington Post

4 Jewish Summer Camps Sell "Fracking Rights" that Endanger Drinking Water, Food, Health, & Climate

July 14, 2011
By Rabbi Arthur Waskow
The Shalom Center

The Forward, the leading national Jewish weekly, has just reported that four Jewish summer camps in Pennsylvania have signed leases with gas exploration companies to allow “fracking” –-  the hydro-fracturing method of pouring tons of highly chemicalized water to smash shale rocks into releasing natural gas.

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