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Can Death Become Your Ally?

July 3, 2011
By Duane Elgin
Huffington Post

Three Media Views of Green Living

June 27, 2011
By Duane Elgin
Huffington Post

It is ironic that green ways of living that emphasize voluntary simplicity – a life-way that can take us into an opportunity-filled future – are often portrayed in the mass media as regressive ways of life that turn away from progress. Here are three portrayals of green lifestyles and simplicity common in today’s popular media:

What is the American Dream?: Dueling dualities in the American tradition

By Gus Speth
Grist
June 25, 2011

Throughout our history, there have been alternative, competing visions of the “good life” in America. The story of how these competing visions played out in our history is prologue to an important question: What is the American Dream and what is its future?

The Spice-Box of Earth: Remembering Where We Come From

June 24, 2011
By Rabbi Lawrence Troster
Huffington Post

The poet Leonard Cohen once wrote:

Out of the Land of Heaven
Down comes the warm Sabbath sun
Into the spice-box of earth.
(From “Out of the Land of Heaven,” The Spice-Box of Earth, Bantam Books: New York, 1968, p. 70.)

The Future Doesn't Hurt. Yet

June 23, 2011
By Matthieu Ricard
New York Times

When, in the early morning, I sit in the little meadow in front of my hermitage on a quiet hilltop, two hours’ drive from Katmandu in Nepal, my eyes take in hundreds of miles of lofty Himalayan peaks glowing in the rising sun. The serenity of the scenery blends naturally and seamlessly with the peace within. It is a long way...

Updates from the Indigenous Tar Sands Campaign

June 22, 2011
ClimateConnections.org

ACFN members protest Municipal Council’s refusal to meet with its Chief and Council about creation of outstanding reserve lands

June 21, 2011

Cry, Wolf

How a Campaign of Fear and Intimidation Led to the Gray Wolf’s Removal from the Endangered Species List

By James William Gibson
Earth Island Journal
Summer 2011

Why Climate Change Requires A Consciousness Change

June 20, 2011
By Duane Elgin
Huffington Post

Jairam Ramesh takes up Ganga crusader's cause

June 18, 2011
By Nitin Sethi
Times of India

NEW DELHI: Union environment minister Jairam Ramesh has gone ahead and paved the legal ground to regulate development work along 135 kilometres of the Bhagirathi river from Gaumukh to Uttarkashi after the Uttarakhand government failed to do so.

UN environment agency sees work with faith groups, African cleric says

June 16, 2011
By Fredrick Nzwili
Ecumenical News International

Nairobi, Kenya - The United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) is looking forward to working with the faith communities in Africa on environmental issues, retired South African Anglican Bishop Geoffrey Davies said.

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