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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...

Oil Spill: A Great Awakening?

By Brenda Peterson
Huffington Post

An ex-priest I know just returned from visiting his old parish in Louisiana. “Even with oil destroying their marshes and livelihoods,” the man who used to be Father Joseph, told me, “many of the faithful are still posting Facebook pledges to Support Offshore Drilling.”

Father Joe is a tall, lean man who has moved to the more eco-friendly...

Green religion movement hopes spill wins converts

July 7, 2010
By John Flesher
AP Environmental Writer
Miami Herald

Where would Jesus drill?

Religious leaders who consider environmental protection a godly mission are making the Gulf of Mexico oil spill a rallying cry, hoping it inspires people of faith to support cleaner energy while changing their personal lives to consume less and contemplate more.

BP's Gulf oil spill is a sin, visiting clergy say after touring the coast

July 7, 2010
By Bruce Nolan
The Times-Picayune

Christian, Jewish and Muslim clergy leaders from around the country cruised through the oil-fouled upper reaches of one of the nation’s richest seafood nurseries Wednesday, and some came away saying the BP Gulf oil spill looks to them not only like an accident, but also a sin.

British religious activist fighting Peru government's expulsion order for helping Indians

July 6, 2010
By Carla Salazar
Associated Press Writer
The Baltimore Sun

LIMA, Peru (AP) — A British religious activist is fighting an expulsion order from Peru’s government for allegedly inciting unrest among indigenous peoples protesting environmental damage from oil drilling in the Amazon rainforest.

Brother Paul McAuley, a 62-year-old lay activist with the La...

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