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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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Consciously Recognizing Ourselves Before We Die

May 23, 2011
By Duane Elgin
Huffington Post

EPA Weighs Threats Posed by Mercury Used in Religious Rituals

May 18, 2011
By Emily Yehle of Greenwire
New York TImes

When a Puerto Rican family moved into its new Rhode Island home last year, it didn’t notice anything amiss about the first-floor apartment on a busy Cumberland street.

But within months, the family’s 3-year-old daughter began getting blisters on her hands. Soon, the toddler’s skin began to peel off, and her mother...

Girl child no burden in this Bihar village

May 18, 2011
By Prabhakar Kumar
CNN-IBN

Bhagalpur: India has the worst record in South Asia when it comes to the sex ratio. Its 914 girls for every 1000 boys under the age of six. But in one village in Bihar, it’s a...

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