March 2015 News

March 31, 2015
March 31, 2015Operation Noah Twenty Anglican bishops have just released a statement entitled The World is our Host for Good Friday, which calls Churches to urgent prayer and...
March 27, 2015
Press Release on Centre’s Report on the Ethics of Animal Experiments Nobel Laureate J. M. Coetzee Backs a New Report which Describes Animal Experiments as Morally...
March 27, 2015
Encountering Earth: Thinking Theologically with a More-Than-Human World invites theologians to address how personal, autobiographical encounters with the planet and its more-...
March 27, 2015
March 26, 2015By Cindy WoodenCatholic News Service VATICAN CITY (CNS) – The Catholic Church supports the efforts of scientists to study the causes and effects of...
March 25, 2015
Climate change is a moral challenge threatening the rights of the world’s poorest people and those who deny it are not using God’s gift of knowledge, says...
March 24, 2015
March 23, 2015By Carol GlatzNational Catholic Reporter Vatican City – The future of humanity depends on safeguarding and sharing potable water around the world, Pope...
March 23, 2015
March 23, 2015By Tom KrattenmakerUSA Today With Catholic advances in Republican Party hierarchy, will papal views hold sway? It comes as bad news to many that Pope Francis’...
March 22, 2015
March 21, 2015By Roger Harrabin, BBC environment analyst BBC An award known as “the Nobel Prize for water” has been given to an Indian campaigner who has brought water to 1,...
March 19, 2015
PhD student position in Philosophy (Theories of Justice and Ethics) in the interdisciplinary Doktoratskolleg “Climate Change –...
March 19, 2015
The Environmental Humanities for a Concerned Europe research group (www.enhanceitn.eu) is now seeking applicants for twelve PhD/doctoral...
March 19, 2015
March 18, 2015Soka Gakkai International From March 14-18, the Third UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction (WCDRR) was held in Sendai city in Miyagi Prefecture, Japan...
March 19, 2015
March 19, 2015Southern African Faith Communities’ Environment Institute Dear Friend of SAFCEI,   We write to you with an appeal to support WWF’s upcoming Earth...
March 18, 2015
March 17, 2015 Act Alliance More than ten international faith based networks attending the Third World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction have expressed their...
March 15, 2015
March 14, 2015RT A Navajo advocacy group has asked a federal judge to halt hydraulic fracking permits in the San Juan Basin of New Mexico, claiming that drilling threatens a...
March 12, 2015
Leader of Catholic church will offer leaders hope, says official, and address causes of poverty and environmental degradation  By Ed KingRTCCMarch 12, 2015 A senior...
March 12, 2015
By Kevin Dennehy Yale School Forestry & Environmental StudiesMarch 11, 2015 On April 8, Yale will host a panel discussion on how Pope Francis’s upcoming encyclical...
March 11, 2015
March 11, 2015By Katie Rose QuandtCommonweal “A Christian who does not protect creation, who does not let it grow, is a Christian who does not care about the work of...
March 10, 2015
March 10, 2015By Brian Roewe National Catholic Reporter Offering a possible glimpse into the upcoming papal encyclical on ecology, a top Vatican official stated that...
March 8, 2015
Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim http://www.jobbnorge.no/ledige-stillinger/stilling/111362/phd-positions-in-ntnu-ocean-science-and-...
March 7, 2015
March 6, 2015 By Bob Gronski Catholic Rural Life On March 5 at Saint Patrick’s Pontifical University in Maynooth, Ireland, Cardinal Peter Turkson spoke at length about...
March 7, 2015
By John L. Allen Jr. Time March 7, 2015 Francis is making the environment a top concern and speaking out against the ‘sin’ of ‘exploiting the Earth’ This month marks...
March 6, 2015
March 6, 2015By Alan RusbridgerThe Guardian As global warming argument moves on to politics and business, Alan Rusbridger explains the thinking behind our major series on the...
March 6, 2015
March 6, 2015By Brian RoeweNational Catholic Reporter Addressing climate change is “an issue of justice for everyone” and one requiring global cooperation, the...
March 4, 2015
March 3, 2015 By Martin Lukacs The Guardian Harper government organized private meetings between oil firms and Indigenous chiefs to try and gain support for oil and gas...
March 3, 2015
March 2, 2015 By Richard Schiffman Bill Moyers & Company This post first appeared at YES! Magazine. The world as we know it is slipping away. At the current rate of...
March 3, 2015
Operation Noah March 2, 2015 The Christian environment charity, Operation Noah, will be hosting an ecumenical climate service before the ‘Time to Act’ national climate march...
March 3, 2015
March 3, 2015By Clive Hamilton ABC Religion and Ethics Pope Francis has made no secret of his conviction that human-induced climate change, along with other forms of...
March 1, 2015
By Leonardo BoffOpinion SurN. 139March 1, 2015 More than being in the center of a crisis of planetary proportions, today, we face a nonreversible process. The Earth will...