January 2020 News

Helena Gualinga is a voice for indigenous communities in the fight against climate change

January 31, 2020
By Sophie Foggin Latin America Reports January 31, 2020 https://latinamericareports.com/helena-gualinga-voice-indigenous-communities-fight-climate-change/4192/  

C of E Pension Board launches London Stock Exchange index to monitor climate change progress

January 31, 2020
Anglican Communion News Service January 31, 2020 https://www.anglicannews.org/news/2020/01/c-of-e-pension-board-launches-london-stock-exchange-index-to-monitor-climate-...

Inspiring the Ecological Mission of the American Catholic Church: Laudato Si’ at a Moment of Crisis and Hope

January 31, 2020
By Erin Lothes Biviano Journal of Moral Theology Vol. 9,  Special Issue 1, 2020: 48-70.

What is environmental justice?

January 30, 2020
By Brian Roewe National Catholic Reporter January 30, 2020 Read the article.    

Australian fires underline pope’s focus on biodiversity in Laudato Si’

January 24, 2020
By Jesse Remedios National Catholic Reporter January 24, 2020 https://www.ncronline.org/news/earthbeat/australian-fires-underline-popes-focus-biodiversity-laudato-si  

Retreat center shows that going green also saves some green

January 24, 2020
By Nick Mayrand Crux January 24, 2020 https://cruxnow.com/church-in-the-usa/2020/01/retreat-center-shows-that-going-green-also-saves-some-green/

Becoming an Ecosattva: Interview with David Loy

January 22, 2020
Interview by Matthew Abrahams Tricycle January 22, 2020 https://tricycle.org/trikedaily/david-loy/

Ecology of Awakening newsletter

January 14, 2020
January 14, 2020 Read the newsletter here.

Five Colleges, Inc., Receives $2.5M Grant for Native American and Indigenous Studies

January 14, 2020
    The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation January 14, 2020 Read the article here.    

Indigenous peoples key to saving threatened forests

January 7, 2020
By Patrick Galey Phys.org January 7, 2020 https://phys.org/news/2020-01-indigenous-peoples-key-threatened-forests.html

The Plastics Giant and the Making of an Environmental Justice Warrior

January 7, 2020
By Julie Dermansky 
Desmog January 7, 2020

Notre Dame ceases use of coal year ahead of schedule, heeds pope's call to care for Earth

January 6, 2020
By Marissa Gebhard, Office of the Executive Vice President Notre Dame Works January 6, 2020 https://ndworks.nd.edu/news/heeding-the-popes-call-to-care-for-mother-earth/

First Catholic dioceses in England divest from fossil fuels

January 6, 2020
Operation Noah Independent Catholic News January 6, 2020 https://www.indcatholicnews.com/news/38660

Where Eagle Feathers Fall Like Snow

January 6, 2020
By Helen Sullivan New York Times January 6, 2020 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/06/science/lebanon-birds-hunting-conservation.html

In India, Indigenous Tribes Clash With the Government Over Trees

January 6, 2020
By Lou Del Bello Undark January 6, 2020

Goldman Sachs agreed to stop funding Arctic drilling. Will other banks join them?

January 3, 2020
By Bernadette Demientieff The Guardian January 3, 2020 https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jan/03/goldman-sachs-arctic-drilling-gwichin-banks

As the climate changes, Christian beliefs can help

January 3, 2020
By Vitaliy Soloviy Sustainability Times January 3, 2020 https://www.sustainability-times.com/green-consumerism/as-the-climate-changes-christian-beliefs-can-help/

A Common Care for Creation: Said Nursi and Pope Francis on Environment

January 1, 2020
By İbrahi̇m Özdemi̇r International Journal of the Asian Philosophical Association Volume 13,  Issue 1: 87-109 January 2020