February 2010 News

World Environment Ministers Signal Resolve to Realize Sustainable Development

February 26, 2010
February 26, 2010 Full title: World Environment Ministers Signal Resolve to Realize Sustainable Development Accelerating a Green Economy to Cooperative Action to Protect...

Changing lives through sustainability: 2009-10 Sasakawa Prize winners bring light and heat ...

February 23, 2010
February 23, 2010 Full title: Changing lives through sustainability 2009-10 Sasakawa Prize winners bring light and heat to communities in Latin America, Africa and India...

More Ambition Needed if Greenhouse Gases are to Peak in Time, Says New UNEP Report

February 23, 2010
February 23, 2010 Full title: More Ambition Needed if Greenhouse Gases are to Peak in Time, Says New UNEP Report Pledges Post Copenhagen Unlikely to Keep Temperatures Below 2...

DC Green Muslims and local groups partner to protect the environment

February 20, 2010
February 20, 2010By M. Scott Bortot Arab News WASHINGTON : A recent series of record-breaking snowfalls in Washington, DC, has sparked debate among global warming...

Religion rejuvenates environmentalism

February 19, 2010
February 18, 2010By Courtney Woo The Miami Herald Evangelical pastor Ken Wilson’s environmental conversion began a few years ago with goose bumps, watery eyes and an...

The Pope vs. climate change deniers

February 19, 2010
February 19, 2010By John Gehring The Washington Post The recent blizzard of bunk coming from climate change deniers giddy over the recent Snowmageddon that paralyzed the...

Rwanda Named Global Host of World Environment Day 2010

February 18, 2010
February 17, 2010United Nations Environment Programme Kigali (Rwanda)/Nairobi (Kenya) - Rwanda, the East African country that is embracing a transition to a Green Economy,...

Saving the planet mixes well with religion, Yale scholar says

February 18, 2010
February 18, 2010By Sara Israelsen-HartleyDeseret News PROVO — The Jordan River may be sacred to millions of Christians and Jews, but that sacredness hasn’t kept...

British Bishops Urge 'Carbon Fast' for Lent

February 17, 2010
February 16, 2010 Full title: British Bishops Urge ‘Carbon Fast’ for LentBritish bishops urge Christians to go on environmentally friendly ‘carbon fast’ for Lent The...

India's Holy Ganges to Get a Cleanup

February 13, 2010
February 13, 2010 Full Title: India’s Holy Ganges to Get a Cleanup Government Embarks on $4 Billion Campaign to Treat Heavily Polluted Waters; Devout Hindus Revere...

India's Tribe Appeals Avatar's Cameron to Defend Their Sacred Mountain

February 9, 2010
February 9, 2010News Blaze Dongria Kondh tribe of Orissa (India), in an advertisement in the prestigious Variety magazine, asked Oscar winner “Avatar” director James Cameron...

Use religious leaders for climate change awareness: Nobel laureate

February 8, 2010
February 7, 2010Indo-Asian News Service New Delhi - Countries should take help from religious leaders to create mass understanding about global warming and thus help curb it...