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A religious perspective on climate change

December 13, 2009
By Stephen Scharper
Toronto Star

Long before Al Gore blazed an inconvenient trail into our collective moral imagination, and two decades before the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, United Church of Canada theologian David Hallman was clanging the tocsin of climate change, often to an indifferent public.

Archbishop of Canterbury says fear hinders climate change battle

December 13, 2009
By Riazat Butt
The Guardian

Rowan Williams tells Copenhagen service corporations and governments are afraid to make choices to bring real change

People are so paralysed by fear and selfishness they cannot save the planet, the archbishop of Canterbury said on Sunday during a church service in Copenhagen.

Matt Frei's diary: Evangelical and environmental?

December 10, 2009
By Matt Frei
BBC News

Washington – If the green movement truly wants to convert America it needs to convert more evangelical Christians. Let me explain.

According to a BBC News/Harris Poll, the number of Americans who worry that carbon emissions are slowly heating our planet like a lobster pot has actually declined in the last eight...

Copenhagen 1943 and Copenhagen UN 2009

December 9, 2009
By Rabbi Warren Stone
Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism

Sixty-six years ago, on October 2, 1943, when Jews were celebrating the High Holidays, Hitler ordered the arrest and deportation of Denmark’s 8,000 Jews. Danish Christian citizens were outraged and courageously rescued almost the entire Jewish population. In an act of collective resistance, the...

Stormwater solution: Rain gardens green a church parking lot

December 9, 2009
By Pamela Wood
The Christian Science Monitor

A church parking lot sent runoff into a nearby creek. Now it contains rain gardens to absorb and treat the stormwater.

US religious groups urge strong action to reduce greenhouse gases

December 8, 2009
The National Religious Coalition on Creation Care
Press Release

Copenhagen, Denmark - As the climate summit opens in Copenhagen, a coalition of religious organizations will present a collection of statements to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon urging strong action to reduce greenhouse gases. This will emphasize that climate change is a moral and ethical issue...

Inter-religious Forum Calls for Nuclear Abolition

December 8, 2009
By Neena Bhandari
Inter Press Service

MELBOURNE - For the global religious community, the use of nuclear arms is an overwhelmingly important ethical issue for the human family. Thus, nothing less than the immediate abolition of such weapons is needed from the highest levels, said speakers at the Parliament of the World’s Religions currently underway in this...

Hindu Declaration on Climate Change

December 7, 2009
Hindu Press International

MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA, December 8, 2009: Melbourne’s Parliament of the World’s Religions is proving to be the most influential of modern times, and the widest ever. Hindus have shown unity and extraordinary leadership releasing today the Hindu Declaration on Climate Change, marking a definitive stance of Hinduism as a religion that is aware...

Church bells to ring climate alarm as faith joins science in Denmark

December 7, 2009
By Peter Kenny
Ecumenical News International

Geneva - When church bells start ringing in Copenhagen, and all around the world, on Dec. 13, they will not be heralding an early arrival of Christmas. Rather they will peal out a call to action and prayer to respond to impending climate change.

Religious groups active in climate debate

December 6, 2009
By Brian Winter
USA Today

COPENHAGEN — Sunday started like any other day for Sister Joan Brown — with a period of prayer and meditation just before dawn at her home in Albuquerque.

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