September 2017 News

September 29, 2017
September 29, 2017By Bess Connolly MartellYale News Embracing the idea that human engagements with the natural world are profoundly shaped by culture, ethics, history,...
September 29, 2017
September 29, 2017By Levon Sevunts Radio Canada International The Inuit in northern Labrador and the federal government signed a deal Thursday evening that will see the Inuit...
September 27, 2017
September 27, 2017By Curtis AbrahamThe Ecologist Religious values are often consistent with conservation efforts. So it’s not surprising that a variety of religious...
September 26, 2017
September 26, 2017By Julie TurkewitzNew York Times DENVER — Does a river — or a plant, or a forest — have rights? This is the essential question in what...
September 25, 2017
September 25, 2017By Michael Sean WintersNational Catholic Reporter Puerto Rico, Dominica, the Virgin Islands, St. Maarten. Most Americans think of these small island nations...
September 25, 2017
September 25, 2017By Patrick C. O’BrienYale News “Just as the composition of our faculty and the diversity of our student body have changed, our approach to...
September 24, 2017
September 24, 2017Global Times The Communist Party of China (CPC) branch in South China’s Hainan Province passed on Friday an environmental protection regulation that...
September 21, 2017
Newsletter of Subhankar Banerjee September 21, 2017 The Trump administration has initiated a backdoor maneuver to open up the coastal plain of the Arctic...
September 20, 2017
September 20, 2017Green Belt Movement - U.S. Office The late Professor Wangari Maathai was many things in her life: the first woman in East and Central Africa to be awarded a...
September 19, 2017
September 19, 2017 By Donna Schaper National Catholic Reporter Whether the issue is city councils and trans fats, fast food jobs for inner-city teens, obesity, diabetes,...
September 19, 2017
September 19, 2017 By Andy MurdockUC Newsroom University of California News Two new studies released during the United Nations’ Climate Week find that global...
September 18, 2017
September 18, 2017By Sarah ToryHigh Country News Churches that have long played a role in social justice are stepping up.  Before Pastor Jim Therrien, 49, moved to New...
September 16, 2017
September 16, 2017Telesur Indigenous activists from across the globe will receive the Equator Prize at a ceremony in New York on Sunday. The international award...
September 15, 2017
September 15, 2017China Daily The Eighth World Confucian Conference will be held in Qufu, the hometown of Confucius, from Sept 20 to 21, themed “Confucianism and a community...
September 15, 2017
September 15, 2017By Jean Chemnick, ClimateWireE&E NewsScientific American There’s a 50 percent chance that temperatures will rise 4 degrees Celsius...
September 14, 2017
Conservationists warn that the Yamuna may already be dead By Pia Peterson and Thea PiltzeckerSierra MagazineSeptember 14, 2017 During the Hindu holiday of Holi, tons of...
September 14, 2017
September 14, 2017By George Rodriguez, Catholic News Service National Catholic Reporter San Jose, Costa Rica — A Catholic university, the Joseph Ratzinger-Benedict XVI...
September 14, 2017
By Mary Evelyn Tucker and John Grim The Interfaith Observer September 14, 2017 Read the article.
September 12, 2017
Full title: Grassroots Leaders and Frontline Community Members March to Kelcy Warren’s home, the CEO of Energy Transfer Partners (ETP)#STOPETP a national coalition of...
September 12, 2017
September 12, 2017By Sarwar alamEastern Eye The Global Peace Project held in Netherlands today brought together Interfaith Leaders from across the world, especially from the...
September 12, 2017
September 12, 2017By Chris Arsenault Reuters TORONTO (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Locals are more effective than governments in protecting the world’s largest...
September 12, 2017
Hurricane Harvey, Hurricane Irma, flash fires, droughts: all of them tell us one thing – we need to stand up to the fossil fuel industry and fastBy Bill McKibbenThe...
September 11, 2017
September 11, 2017BBC Pope Francis has warned history will judge world leaders who do not act as he blasted climate change sceptics in the wake of Hurricanes Irma and Harvey...
September 11, 2017
September 11, 2017By Myles McCormick The Guardian When Ovidio Teco’s Amazon homeland was declared “untouchable” by the Bolivian government in 2011, his war...
September 9, 2017
September 9, 2017By Jane Gleeson-WhiteThe Guardian Environmental lawyer James Thornton says China’s ‘ecological civilisation’ concept is the best response...
September 5, 2017
September 5, 2017By Denis ChabrolDemerara Waves A British-funded three-year project to integrate Amerindian traditional knowledge into national environmental conservation...
September 5, 2017
September 5, 2017By Akeela BhattayIndependent Plastic water bottles and cups, Styrofoam take-out containers with half-eaten food, plastic carrier bags; a trail of waste...
September 1, 2017
September 1, 2017By Christopher Lamb Religion News Service VATICAN CITY (RNS) — Pope Francis and Orthodox Christian leader Patriarch Bartholomew have released a...
September 1, 2017
September 1, 2017By Rev. Dr. John ChryssavgisCrux [Editor’s note: This commentary was written for L’Osservatore Romano, the Vatican newspaper, to appear along...