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Br. David Andrews: The morality of fracking

June 9, 2011
By Rich Heffern
National Catholic Reporter

Holy Cross Br. David Andrews is a senior representative at Food and Water Watch, a consumer group based in Washington. He is former director of the National Catholic Rural Life Conference.

Human illness, environmental contamination, serious animal illnesses, a danger to our food system: these are some of...

Simplicity Is Not Sacrifice!

June 7, 2011
By Duane Elgin
Huffington Post

There is a common misconception that living more simply requires a life of sacrifice. In fact, it is just the opposite: When we live more lightly on the material side of life, we create the conditions for greater satisfaction and meaning on the non-material side of life. Lifestyles emphasizing consumerism are the ones that require...

UNEP Report Spotlights Enormous Economic and Human Benefits from Boosting Funding for Forests

Investing Just 0.034 Percent More of Global GDP Could Halve Deforestation, Generate Millions of Jobs and Combat Climate Change

United Nations Environment Programme
June 5, 2011

Delhi/Nairobi/World - Investing an additional US$40 billion a year in the forestry sector could halve deforestation rates by 2030, increase rates of tree planting by around 140 per...

Humanity's Second Spiritual Age

June 5, 2011
By Duane Elgin
Huffington Post

The phrase “axial age” has been used to describe the relatively brief period of time – roughly 700 years – when the great religions of the world arose: Hinduism and Buddhism in India; Confucianism and Taoism in China; and monotheism in the Middle East. The period from roughly 900 BC to 200 BC is referred to as an “axial age” because...

Church express concern over excessive mining in Goa

June 6, 2011
By Babu Thomas
Christian Today India

The Catholic Church in Goa expressed concern over excessive mining in the state which it said posed a grave threat to ecologically sensitive areas.

Marking World Environment Day on Sunday, the Council for Social Justice and Peace (CSJP), the social wing of the archdiocese, lamented that mining, deforestation and...

Countdown begins to World Environment Day 2011

May 31, 2011
United Nations Environment Programme

Nairobi - Whether through a litter clean-up around Mount Everest, a training programme in forest management Costa Rica or a music festival in Belgium, millions of people across the world will join forces to mark World Environment Day (WED) on 5 June 2011.

This year’s WED theme is ‘Forests: Nature at Your...

Science and Spirit Converge in the Now

May 29, 2011
By Duane Elgin
Huffington Post

A growing understanding of our universe reveals two remarkable dynamics at work that together intensify and expand our feeling for the spiritual nature of existence. The first dynamic is the universe story: A grand narrative that portrays humanity as descendants of a vast, creative lineage of life that stretches over nearly...

Are You Ready for More? In a world of climate change, freak storms are the new normal

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Are You Ready for More?

In a world of climate change, freak storms are the new normal. Why we’re unprepared for the harrowing future.

By Sharon Begley
Newsweek
May 29, 2011

The Yamuna River: India's Dying Goddess

Spring 2011
By Richard Conniff
The Journal of the Yale School Forestry & Environmental Studies

Uganda religious leaders act on deforestation

May 24, 2011
By Pius Sawa
Alertnet

KAMPALA, Uganda (AlertNet) – When Anglican bishop Nathan Kyamanywa was appointed to his job in 2002, he decided that climate change should be a matter of concern for Christians. Kyamanywa bought 55 tree seedlings and gave one to each of the parishes in his diocese of Bunyoro-Kitara in western Uganda.

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