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If an island state vanishes, is it still a nation?

December 6, 2010
By Charles J. Hanley
Associated Press

CANCUN, Mexico – Encroaching seas in the far Pacific are raising the salt level in the wells of the Marshall Islands. Waves threaten to cut one sliver of an island in two. “It’s getting worse,” says Kaminaga Kaminaga, the tiny nation’s climate change coordinator.

Has Environmentalism Lost Its Spiritual Core?

December 6, 2010
By Bryan Walsh
Time

Environmentalism began as a religion. Certainly that’s how paleo-greens like John Muir, founder of the Sierra Club, would have seen it. Muir was awakened to nature when he first explored Yosemite in the 1860s, and he felt it in a religious way — he called what would become one of the nation’s first national parks “the grandest of all...

Climate justice is focus of four-day Episcopal/Anglican gathering in Dominican Republic

December 6, 2010
By Lynette Wilson
Episcopal News Service

Anglican and Episcopal leaders from North, South and Central America and the Caribbean are arriving Dec. 6 in the Dominican Republic for a four-day gathering to explore the intersection between poverty and climate change.

Hindus laud Pope's interest in solar-powered electric "popemobile"

December 3, 2010
ANI

Nevada (US): Hindus have praised Vatican’s preference in having solar-powered electric popemobile, thus showing care for the planet and promotion of sustainable and green energy.

What is an ethical Christmas?

December 3, 2010
By Rev. Ian Galloway
Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations

One of the dilemmas of the age is how to celebrate a Christian Christmas or, if you prefer, a mid-winter festival without costing the earth and without being labelled a scrooge!

Vatican has not endorsed genetically modified food

December 2, 2010
By Carol Glatz
National Catholic Reporter

VATICAN CITY – The Vatican did not endorse an 11-page final statement in favor of easing restrictions on and allowing more widespread use of genetically modified crops, especially in poorer nations, said a Vatican official.

Building a movement for climate justice in the Episcopal Church

November 30, 2010
By P. Joshua ‘Griff’ Griffin
Episcopal News Service

Rvfo-Rakko, "Big Winter"

December 2010
By James Treat
Muscogee Nation News

The ancient Mvskoke calendar is grounded in astronomical observations. Each new year, for example, begins with posketv, the ceremony known in English as Green Corn, traditionally held around summer solstice. And the sequence of twelve hvse approximates the number of lunar months occurring in an annual period...

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.

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