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Lockdown on the Pipeline: How a Houston Businessman Helped Shut Down Keystone for a Day

August 31, 2012
By Candice Bernd
Nation of Change

Tar Sands Blockade activists halted Keystone XL construction for a full day on August 28 after locking themselves to a truck carrying pipes in Livingston, Texas.

Newsletter of Friends of the Earth Middle East (FoEME)

 

Contents:

Joint Teacher’s Workshop

FoEME keynote presentation to the Sister Cities International Conference

Building the Water Agenda: Policy responses to water scarcity and shock

FoEME’s SHE Park in Jordan is visited by U.S. students

FoEME Directors speak at Wembley Mosque in London

‘Protecting Ground Water’ completes GIS...

What Can Islam Do For The Environment? Lots, Actually…

August 27, 2012
By Arwa Aburawa
Green Prophet

Answering (or at least attempting to answer) what now feels like an age-old question

Eye on the Sparrow

August 2012
By Beth Norcross
Sojourners magazine

WHEN I READ about the dire impacts of global warming, I think about Howard Thurman. This might be perplexing to those more familiar with Thurman as the author of Jesus and the Disinherited, a book Martin Luther King Jr. was said to carry with him wherever he went.

Youth Appeals Climate Case: Iowa's Supreme Court Is Asked To Combat The Climate Crisis

August 13, 2012
Our Children’s Trust Press Release

Native American Leaders Share Concerns About Sacred Sites

August 13, 2012
By Scott Theisen
KSTP

Anti-Glacier Prayer "Worked Too Well"—Vatican Approves New Ritual

After 350 years, and amid a changing climate, Alpine pilgrims warm up to ice.

By Laura Spinney
National Geographic News
August 11, 2012

Fiesch, Switzerland – About 50 people set out on foot from the Swiss village of Fiesch at dawn on July 31. As the sun...

Churches speak out on Northern Gateway oil sands pipeline

August 7, 2012
By John Cotter
The Canadian Press

Churches across Canada say they have a religious duty to speak out on the proposed Northern Gateway oil sands pipeline.

Next week, delegates at the United Church of Canada general council meeting in Ottawa are to debate a resolution that calls on the church to reject construction of the $6-billion Enbridge project that...

Samye Ling opposes construction of plant on Holy Isle

July 31, 2012
Shambhala Sun Foundation

World Heritage Committee Decision on Selous Game Reserve Boundary Changes

July 30, 2012
Uranium-Network Press Release

Elephants, Rhinos and the environment under threat from 60 million tons of radioactive waste as World Heritage Committee agrees boundary change that will allow uranium mining at the Tanzania Selous Game Reserve - a World Heritage site.

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