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Let there be solar

As the moral implications of climate change become more apparent, faith communities around the world are taking action, both personal and political.

By Nathan Rice
The Daily Climate
November 30, 2010

Give us all a reverence for the Earth as your own creation, that we may use its resources rightly in the service of others and to your honor and glory...

Vatican scientists urge support for engineered crops

November 30, 2010
By Andy Coghlan
New Scientist

Scientists have both the right and a moral duty to be “stewards of God” by genetically modifying crops to help the world’s poor, scientific advisers to the Vatican said this week.

Beliefs and Biodiversity: Rediscovering Religion and Conservation in Sumatra

By Jeanne E. McKay
Ravenswood Media Newsletter
November 2010, Issue #11

Climate change failure is moral outrage: Faith leaders


Scotland’s religious leaders have described the West’s failure to help developing nations cope with climate change as a “moral outrage”.

BBC News, Scotland
November 28, 2010

Senior members of the country’s Christian and Islamic communities outlined their position in a letter to Prime Minister David Cameron.

They urged the UK government to do all...

Religion, nature develop connections

November 21, 2010
By Gina Farthing
News Virginian

Americans are discovering a connection between their religion and the environment – so said a documentary film called “Renewal,” produced by filmmakers Marty Ostrow and Terry Kay Rockefeller, who have created films for PBS. The movie was presented Thursday evening by Staunton Green 2020 and Transition Staunton at the...

Billions of trees, cleaner stoves and the power of sugar: 30 Ways in 30 Days to meet Climate Change

“30 Ways in 30 Days” Showcases More Climate Change Solutions from Around the World

United Nations Environment Programme
November 19, 2010

Nairobi, Kenya - The power of building blocks to counter erosion, the effect of a more efficient cooking stove on fragile gorilla habitat, and the inspiring campaign that has registered 10 billion trees planted in four...

Ecological Civilization

November 19, 2010
By James Miller
Sustainable China Blog

I was in Beijing and Tianjin recently for a week of conferences related to “ecological civilization” (shengtai wenming 生态文明) an important new buzzword, the precise meaning of which thought leaders and government officials are vying to define.

The Hindu Method to Save the Planet

November 15, 2010
By Pankaj Jain
Patheos

Forum on Teilhard Attracts 300

November 13, 2010
By Marie Elena Giossi
The Tablet

An evening film and lecture presentation illuminating the life and thought of Father Pierre Teilhard de Chardin drew more than 300 people to the Immaculate Conception Center, Douglaston, Nov. 4

The Tablet Forum on Teilhard de Chardim was the fifth event in a free forum series, sponsored by The Tablet and organized by...

Toward a global green economy

Financial sustainability will not happen just by fixing the contradictions inherent in existing economic models.

By Achim Steiner
UN Undersecretary General and Executive Director of UNEP

November 9, 2010
JoongAng Daily

The G-20 has acted to stabilize banks and to counter the financial and economic crisis: A recovery is under way, albeit and in...

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