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Getting Their Message a Cross
Conservative Christians launch skeptical climate campaign |
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16 May 2008 |
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| Posted at 5:21 PM on 16 May 2008 Conservative religious leaders have launched a "We Get It!" campaign that just goes to prove that saying something doesn't make it so. The campaign aims to gather a million signatures on a petition opposing climate-change action, with the argument that tackling global warming will hurt the world's poor. "Our stewardship of creation must be based on Biblical pri ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, green living, news, religion and spirituality (all these topics) |
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On His Pope-box
Pope preaches environmental protection to United Nations |
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18 Apr 2008 |
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| Posted at 12:00 PM on 18 Apr 2008 After gallivanting around Washington, D.C., Pope Benedict XVI traveled to New York Friday to make an address to the United Nations General Assembly. In a speech largely focused on human rights, the pope also made note of the world's plentiful other problems, including "the protection of the environment, of resources, and of the climate." Our environmental, security, development, a ... |
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| Topics: climate, news, religion and spirituality, United Nations (all these topics) |
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Herald Ford
Ford lays out how it will reduce fleet emissions |
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09 Apr 2008 |
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| Posted at 10:11 AM on 09 Apr 2008 Ford Motor Co. has laid out specific plans for reducing the greenhouse-gas emissions of its vehicle fleet at least 30 percent by 2020. The announcement comes in response to shareholder resolutions filed by members of the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility (representing about 300 religious investors) and the Investor Network on Climate Risk, organized by green-minded investment group Ceres. S ... |
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| Topics: Big Auto, business, cars, climate, greenhouse-gas emissions, news, religion and spirituality (all these topics) |
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Holy Shift!
Southern Baptist leaders urge action on climate change |
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10 Mar 2008 |
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| Posted at 6:02 AM on 10 Mar 2008 Photo: iStockphoto Over 40 prominent Southern Baptist leaders released a statement Monday urging action against climate change, asserting that "the time for timidity regarding God's creation is no more." The declaration is a notable departure from a statement released after the denomination's 2007 annual meeting that questioned human impacts on climate change. "We believe our curre ... |
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| Topics: climate, green living, news, religion and spirituality (all these topics) |
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Fast Company
Church of England urges carbon fast for Lent |
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05 Feb 2008 |
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| Posted at 1:43 PM on 05 Feb 2008 Planning to give up alcohol or chocolate for 40 days when the season of Lent begins tomorrow? Two Church of England bishops are urging churchgoers to instead take part in a carbon fast. From the Archives Unhappy Campers. Fewer folks are regularly getting out in nature, says study. Full of Mitt. Romney flip-flops, does not support California CO2 waiver. The Fellowship of the Ping. ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, green living, greenhouse-gas emissions, news, religion and spirituality (all these topics) |
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Pray Tell
Religious leaders convene for a floating climate-change symposium |
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12 Sep 2007 |
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| Posted at 5:40 PM on 12 Sep 2007 Religious leaders from Buddhist, Christian, Hindu, Jewish, Shiite, Shinto, and Sunni traditions are in the midst of a six-day climate-change symposium coordinated by Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I. Traveling on a ship down the coast of rapidly melting Greenland, the leaders are floating ideas on cooperating to close the perceived gap between religious and environmental interests. Say ... |
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| Topics: climate, news, religion and spirituality (all these topics) |
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For the Love of ... You Know
Religious leaders urge Congress, Bush to act on climate change |
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22 May 2007 |
Daily Grist |
| For the Love of ... You Know Religious leaders urge Congress, Bush to act on climate change After millennia of mistrust and conflict, the world's religions might be united by ... climate change? In an open letter published today in two Capitol Hill newspapers, the leaders of more than 20 religious groups urged Congress and President Bush to act on the issue. "Global warming is real, it is human-induced, and we ... |
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| Topics: climate, news, religion and spirituality (all these topics) |
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Creation Careless
Evangelical policy director chastised for speaking out on climate change |
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06 Mar 2007 |
Daily Grist |
| Creation Careless Evangelical policy director chastised for speaking out on climate change Rev. Richard Cizik, policy director for the National Association of Evangelicals, says global warming is human-caused and the God-fearing should take it seriously. Science-based belief? Quelle horreur! Last week, a group of conservative Christian leaders unaffiliated with NAE wrote a ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, green living, news, religion and spirituality (all these topics) |
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Hey, We'll Take Stewardship
Texan Baptists turn themselves into quiet anti-coal activists |
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08 Feb 2007 |
Daily Grist |
| Hey, We'll Take Stewardship Texan Baptists turn themselves into quiet anti-coal activists Duty says we should report on the $5.9 billion Kyoto loophole that let China add simple upgrades to plants making a gas called HFC-23 and reap gigantic benefits through carbon trading. But yawn! Wouldn't you rather read about Texan Baptists busting the shackles of their anti-eco-activism past to combat coal-fired power ... |
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| Topics: climate, news, religion and spirituality, Texas (all these topics) |
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Got the Urge for Knowing
Scientists and evangelical leaders form new climate alliance |
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18 Jan 2007 |
Daily Grist |
| Got the Urge for Knowing Scientists and evangelical leaders form new climate alliance So a minister, a scientist, and a horse walk into a bar. The bartender says, "Why the long face?" The horse just chuckles, but the other two begin a thoughtful discussion about how humans are destroying the planet. Sound far-fetched? Not after yesterday, when a group of 28 scientists and evangelical leaders unveiled a ne ... |
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| Topics: climate, news, religion and spirituality (all these topics) |
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The Hunter is a Lonely Heart
Christian Coalition leader-to-be resigns over climate change, poverty stance |
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28 Nov 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| The Hunter is a Lonely Heart Christian Coalition leader-to-be resigns over climate change, poverty stance We remember when evangelical leaders served time before stepping down in disgrace -- hello, fabulous Bakker boy -- but the latest kerfuffle involves a figurehead who hadn't even assumed his position. And this time the scandal isn't sexual, it's environmental. The Rev. Joel C. Hunter, a Florida pastor whose term ... |
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| Topics: climate, news, religion and spirituality (all these topics) |
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Go and Cinema More
New climate-change documentary focuses on people of faith |
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12 Sep 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| Go and Cinema More New climate-change documentary focuses on people of faith If An Inconvenient Truth didn't exactly bring evangelicals to the multiplex in droves, The Great Warming just may. Religious leaders hope the documentary, to be screened in September and distributed in October along with voter guides and eco-sermons, will mobilize religious groups around climate change -- just in time for mi ... |
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Will Evolution Be Next?
Heat waves linked to climate change; even Pat Robertson is convinced |
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04 Aug 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| Will Evolution Be Next? Heat waves linked to climate change; even Pat Robertson is convinced Experts agree: damn, it's hot! And you might as well get used to it. At the rate global temperatures are rising, blistering heat waves like the ones that have recently baked parts of the U.S. and Europe will become more frequent and severe, according to climate researchers. Of course, no individual weather event can definit ... |
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The Only Boy Who Could Ever Teach Me
Evangelical leaders launch new campaign to fight global warming |
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08 Feb 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| The Only Boy Who Could Ever Teach Me Evangelical leaders launch new campaign to fight global warming Eighty-six evangelical Christian leaders have joined together to launch an "Evangelical Climate Initiative" and call for federal legislation to reduce carbon dioxide emissions via a cap-and-trade market system. This move comes after 22 evangelical leaders -- including Bush-friendly political heavyweights J ... |
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| Topics: climate, news, religion and spirituality (all these topics) |
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Bullied Pulpit
Evangelical association decides not to fight global warming after all |
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02 Feb 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| Bullied Pulpit Evangelical association decides not to fight global warming after all You know all the fuss this past year over the evangelical Christian community becoming a powerful partner in the fight against climate change? Well, never mind. The 30-million-member National Association of Evangelicals had been expected to issue a public statement on the dangers of global warming, marking a potentially fatal rift ... |
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| Topics: climate, news, religion and spirituality (all these topics) |
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Coming at It From a New Anglo
U.K. Christian groups ally with eco-advocates to lobby on climate change |
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01 Sep 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Coming at It From a New Anglo U.K. Christian groups ally with eco-advocates to lobby on climate change Several Christian organizations in the U.K. have joined forces with environmental groups in a new alliance to "Stop Climate Chaos." The coalition is pressuring the British government to make cutting greenhouse-gas emissions a domestic and international priority and to support in ... |
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| Topics: climate, energy, news, religion and spirituality, United Kingdom (all these topics) |
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Joevangelism
Evangelical leaders rally to fight global warming |
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10 Mar 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Joevangelism Evangelical leaders rally to fight global warming Following its adoption of an environmental platform in October, the National Association of Evangelicals, an umbrella group of 51 denominations, has scheduled two meetings in the Washington, D.C., area to focus on global warming. To be attended by influential religious leaders, scientists, politicians, and members of international aid agencies, the mee ... |
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