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Taking on Tarmageddon

April 1, 2010

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Taking on Tarmageddon

The tar sands are the most destructive project on earth – and the campaign to shut them down is gathering momentum. Jess Worth reports from the thick of it.

By Jess Worth
NewInternationalist

‘If local indigenous communities tell us they don’t want the Sunrise Project, then of...

Nuns face guns, impunity in trying to save Amazon

March 30, 2010
By Bradley Brooks
Associated Press

PDT CARLINDA, Brazil (AP) – The gunmen arrived in the Amazon dusk, circling the house where Sister Leonora was hiding, rifles and pistols poking out the windows of three muddy pickup trucks.

A violent death was meant for the diminutive 64-year-old Roman Catholic nun, who has spent decades defending poor, landless workers...

Conservative Evangelicals embrace God and green

March 25, 2010

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Conservative Evangelicals embrace God and green

Why some right-leaning evangelical Christians have become true believers in climate change. God and green go together, these conservatives say.

By Gregory M. Lamb
The Christian Science Monitor

World Water Day 2010 Highlights Solutions and Calls for Action to Improve Water Quality Worldwide

March 22, 2010
United Nations Environment Programme

Nairobi (Kenya) - Investment in safe water will have high returns in ensuring a healthy ecosystem and human society, says a new report released today by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) during the global World Water Day celebrations in Nairobi.

Time to Cure Global Tide of Sick Water

March 22, 2010

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Time to Cure Global Tide of Sick Water

Turning Two Millions Tons of Waste - Equal to Over Two Billion Tons of Wastewater - into Economic Resource Could Benefit Human Health, Agriculture and the Environment

United Nations Environment Programme

Nairobi (Kenya) - Transforming wastewater from a major health and...

Language of Religious Fervor Inflames Climate Change Debate

March 19, 2010
By Jeremy Lovell of ClimateWire
The New York Times

LONDON – Apocalyptic visions and the muscular language of religious fervor are invading the climate arena, replacing issues of fact with those of faith and bringing high emotion into science – an area where it should have no place – politicians and religious leaders complain.

Faith leaders see warming threat

March 14, 2010
By the Rev. Doug Hunt
Tennessean.com

In December, more than 100 diverse members of the world’s faith communities met in Copenhagen with representatives of virtually every nation on earth as official delegates gathered to try to reach an agreement on steps all governments would take to meet a real and major threat to the future of their citizens.

Evangelicals are seen as key in climate debate

March 13, 2010

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Evangelicals are seen as key in climate debate

Panel touts nexus between spirituality and environmentalism

By Gary Soulsman
The News Journal

Young people in evangelical churches have likely never heard a sermon linking scripture with a love of creation and caring for the earth.

That explains the slowness of mainline...

Green Church

March 7, 2010
By Carol Matroo
Newsday

Preserving the environment concerns everyone and the Catholic Church of Trinidad and Tobago is doing its part to protect and promote authentic human development and environmental ecology which are inextricably linked.

To protect the earth, the Catholic Church has drawn up a draft framework towards an Environmental...

Wanted: an eco prophet

March 7, 2010
By Peter Preston
The Guardian

People are drifting into a lethal slumber on climate change. More of the same won’t wake them up.

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