January 2011 News

A Nobel Peace Prize winner finds spiritual values in planting trees

January 24, 2011
January 24, 2011By Gregory M. LambThe Christian Science Monitor Nobel laureate Wangari Maathai, who founded the Green Belt Movement, says spiritual values are the key to...

Ecological wisdom of the ages

January 12, 2011
Longstanding Chinese ideals, which seek balance between man and nature, could help humans find a better way of living, writes Pan Yue, China’s vice minister for...

Hindus back Beatle Paul McCartney's call to India for a National Vegetarian Day

January 5, 2011
January 5, 2011ANI Sir Paul McCartney is reportedly urging India to declare a National Vegetarian Day and Hindus have thrown their weight behind his call to celebrate meat-...

Noah's Ark replica shows conservative Christians are embracing green building

January 5, 2011
January 5, 2011By Philip KennicottWashington Post When the Creation Museum in Petersburg, Ky., opened on Memorial Day 2007, temperatures inside the 100,000-square-foot...

New endowed chair at Yale unites teaching of theology and the environment

January 5, 2011
January 5, 2011Yale Daily Bulletin A pledge of $3 million will endow a joint senior faculty appointment between Yale Divinity School/Berkeley Divinity School and the Yale...