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In Weather Chaos, a Case for Global Warming

August 14, 2010
By Justin Gillis
New York Times

Conservation, religious groups work to prevent development on available religious lands

August 11, 2010
By Jay Lindsay 
Associated Press

WAREHAM, Mass. (AP) — The stretch of shoreline owned by a Massachusetts religious order is a place where even the sounds add to the stillness. Bells jangle on buoys as birds chatter and the tide slides in a soft rush past scattered clammers.

“It’s a refuge of silence,” said the Rev. Stan Kolasa, director of a retreat...

Church bells ring to highlight toll of biodiversity

August 10, 2010
Church of England Press Release

Church bells across the country will ring in tune with the United Nations next month to mark crucial international talks on biodiversity.

Pakistan floods: disaster is the worst in the UN's history

August 9, 2010
By Neil Tweedie
The Telegraph

The United Nations has rated the floods in Pakistan as the greatest humanitarian crisis in recent history with more people affected than the South-East Asian tsunami and the recent earthquakes in Kashmir and Haiti combined.

Eat, pray, love: A new green gospel

August 9, 2010
By Mallory McDuff
USA Today

This summer I’ve been waiting for the opening of the movie Eat, Pray, Love with an anticipation that is a bit different from my hope that Congress would find effective strategies to address climate change. The difference? I don’t think I’ll be disappointed with the movie’s ending.

Zed urges Hindus for vow of animal compassion on Naga-panchami

August 8, 2010
OneIndia

Nevada (US) (ANI): Hindu statesman Rajan Zed, sending Naga-panchami greetings to one billion Hindus of the world, has appealed to them to take a vow of compassion to all animals and treat them with kindness and respect. 

Zed, who is the president of Universal Society of Hinduism, in a release in Nevada (USA) today, wished that all Hindus be blessed...

W.Va. churches taking 'hard walk' on mining

August 8, 2010
By Sean D. Hamill
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

CHARLESTON, W.Va. – The Rev. Dennis Sparks calls it “the hard walk.”

That’s what you have to do when your religious organization decides to take a position – in, of all places, West Virginia – saying mountaintop removal mining is against God’s will, but also raises money for the families of miners who died in...

UNEP Sasakawa Prize open: US $200,000 for innovative green project

July 29, 2010
United Nations Environment Programme

Nairobi - The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and The Nippon Foundation today officially launched the 2011 UNEP Sasakawa Prize to find the most innovative environmental project in the developing world - with a cash prize of US$ 200,000 awaiting the winner.

Hindu statesman Zed asks the world to re-evaluate its economic growth strategy

July 19, 2010
Merinews

World should re-evaluate its economic growth outlook to save it from environmental crisis, stresses Hindu statesman Rajan Zed. 

Zed, who is President of Universal Society of Hinduism, in a statement in Nevada (USA) today, said that speedy economic development might not bring us the “real success” we were all seeking. A happy and healthier world should...

Hindus ask world to wake up to continual lead poisoning of Roma in Kosovo

July 18, 2010
By Ani
The Gaea Times

Hindus are calling the world to wake-up to the reported tragedy of Roma people continually suffering from lead poisoning in northern Kosovo for nearly about a decade.

Hindu statesman Rajan Zed, in a statement in Nevada (USA) today, said that it was highly shocking to learn that that the world let this environmental health and...

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