March 2016 News

March 31, 2016
March 30, 2016By John J. Berger, Energy and environmental policy expert Huffington Post “At first, I thought I was fighting to save rubber trees, then I thought I was...
March 31, 2016
March 30, 2016By Nick FouriezosOZY Browsing through a New York City bookstore in early 1941, influential editor Robert Giroux bumped into Thomas Merton, an old college pal...
March 28, 2016
Full Title: Walking the length of the river: Spiritual journey calls attention to contamination of the Minnesota River By Tom Cherveny West Central TribuneMarch 27, 2016...
March 25, 2016
Through devotion Catholics protest against controversial port project     UCA News ucanews.com reporterNegombo, Sri LankaMarch 24, 2016 Catholics in Sri Lanka...
March 24, 2016
March 24, 2016By Andrew RevkinGarrison Institute The first 25 years of my career as a journalist focused on ways to foster sustainable human progress centered on science...
March 24, 2016
Our leaders thought fracking would save our climate. They were wrong. Very wrong. By Bill McKibbenThe NationMarch 23, 2016 Global warming is, in the end, not about the noisy...
March 24, 2016
March 24, 2016 By Julie Hall, Youth Speak News The Catholic Register I took the Pulse Pledge during Lent and found myself reflecting on how something so small could actually...
March 23, 2016
March 22, 2016By Allison PondDeseret News For decades, one of India’s largest religious festivals left a stinking mess at the mouth of the Ganges River. Millions of...
March 22, 2016
March 21, 2016By Mark PattisonCatholic News ServiceNational Catholic Reporter Imagine turning on the tap in the morning and seeing something that’s “looked like toilet...
March 22, 2016
March 21, 2016By Brian Roewe National Catholic Reporter The United Nations on Sunday marked its annual International Day of Happiness, and according to at least one report,...
March 21, 2016
March 21, 2016 Forward Movement Are science and faith compatible? Ordained scientists in The Episcopal Church offer insight on this sometimes controversial question through a...
March 19, 2016
March 18, 2016By Betsy ShirleySojourners Less than two weeks after the March 3 murder of acclaimed indigenous Honduran activist Berta Cáceres, Nelson García,...
March 19, 2016
March 18, 2016By Junno Arocho Esteves Catholic News ServiceNational Catholic Reporter During Holy Week and in the Easter season, the Vatican will take part in several...
March 18, 2016
March 17, 2016By Brendan TrembathABC News Hundreds of followers of an ancient Middle Eastern faith have descended on a river in western Sydney for one of the holiest weeks in...
March 18, 2016
Ecology, Spirituality, and Religion Program Hosts Critical Dialogue By Jessica Paden California Institute of Integral StudiesMarch 18, 2016 An enthusiastic crowd of 111...
March 15, 2016
March 15, 2016By Sharon AbercrombieGlobal Sisters Report In the summer of 1994, 65 religious women gathered at St. Gabriel Monastery in Clarks Summit, Pennsylvania, to share...
March 15, 2016
Full title: From the pope to the people: Emerging religious environmental movement faces challenges amid global economic pressuresBy Dan Smyer Yü* and Mary Evelyn Tucker...
March 14, 2016
The Grand Chief of the Mohawk Kanesatake First Nation calls the proposed Energy East pipeline ‘risky and dangerous’ to indigenous peoples’ survival By Nika Knight Common...
March 14, 2016
In the rolling plains of North Dakota, companies like Halliburton, Hess, Crestwood Energy, Whiting Petroleum Corp. and Enbridge have crowned themselves king and are acting...
March 12, 2016
Professors Jedidiah Purdy and Norman Wirzba begin an ecological conversation they believe we all should have By Andrew ParkDuke MagazineMarch 11, 2016 On an overcast morning...
March 11, 2016
March 10, 2016 As part of our efforts to raise awareness of the importance of cultural and spiritual values amongst conservation policy-makers and practitioners, we would...
March 11, 2016
March 10, 2016Vatican Radio An interreligious workshop in the eastern Indian state of Bihar focused on ways religions can work together to create a healthy and peaceful...
March 11, 2016
March 10, 2016Environment News Service NEW YORK, New York, March 9, 2016 (ENS) – International Women’s Day is officially celebrated every year on March 8, but...
March 10, 2016
March 9, 2016By Tik RootNewsweek John Muir was a fervent believer. Not just in science or conservation or the National Park Service, which he championed. The founder of the...
March 10, 2016
By Allysyn Kiplinger March 10, 2016 Center for Ecozoic Societies (CES)CES Musings – March-April 2016 The new Thomas Berry website, http://thomasberry.org/, will not...
March 10, 2016
March 9, 2016By Brian RoeweNational Catholic Reporter On Sunday eco-theologian Columban Fr. Sean McDonagh wrapped up a three-city, 10-day speaking tour of the East Coast...
March 8, 2016
March 7, 2016By Andrew AghapourReligion Dispatches Chimpanzees believe in God. This news, widely reported last week, is only a slight exaggeration. Using hidden cameras,...
March 8, 2016
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March 8, 2016
March 7, 2016By Ilia DelioGlobal Sisters Report From the dawn of our species, what we know about the universe has come from the power of observation, that is, what we can...
March 6, 2016
March 6, 2016By Manjula NarayanHindustan Times It’s -19 degrees C and you are trudging back to the hotel after a sumptuous thukpa dinner at the Amdo Tibetan restaurant...
March 6, 2016
Full title: Cardinal Turkson addresses GR 2030 on Catholic social teaching, integral ecology, sustainable developmentIndependent Catholic NewsMarch 6, 2016 The President of...
March 4, 2016
March 4, 2016By David AgrenCatholic News Service MEXICO CITY (CNS) – An outspoken environmental activist in Honduras was murdered in her own home, sparking outrage and...
March 4, 2016
March 3, 2016By Pat Johnson Vancouver Courier The ecological crisis is a spiritual crisis, says a renowned theologian coming to Vancouver this weekend. Douglas Christie, a...
March 4, 2016
March 3, 2016By Rick Snizek, Editor Rhode Island Catholic PROVIDENCE — Draped in hidden splendor beneath the shimmering blue waters of the Atlantic Ocean lie gorges...
March 2, 2016
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March 2, 2016
By Josep-Maria Mallarach, Josep Corcó and Thymio PapayannisParks 22, no.1 (March 2016): 63-78. http://parksjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/PARKS-22.1-Mallarach-...
March 2, 2016
March 2, 2016Clean Malaysia First came a fatwa by Islamic authorities against the poaching of protected species in Terengganu. Now comes another equally welcome religious...
March 2, 2016
March 2016By Brian Swimme and Mary Evelyn TuckerCenter for Humans and Nature We know that the obstacles to the sustainable development and flourishing of life’s...
March 1, 2016
March 2016By Zhu GuangyaoUnited Nations Environment Programme A national strategy for innovative, concerted, green, open and inclusive development The Chinese government...
March 1, 2016
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March 1, 2016
March 1, 2016By Sam MoweThe Garrison Institute Journalist Elizabeth Kolbert and Buddhist monk Matthieu Ricard each had big books in 2015. Kolbert’s The Sixth Extinction...