“Sea level rises have been measured. They’re verifiable. Climate change is very well documented. The facts are there. You can deny them if you choose to, but we’re seeing the results every day here in south Louisiana, and whether you want to say that’s because of climate change or something else, the effects are very real.” More →

November 25, 2015

“As the climate changes, species are diminishing. We are seeing the extinction of so many different things, and they are part of us. They are part of the world. They are part of who we are. Are we going to become the next extinction? We need to care for what God has given us, and that is a moral mandate.” More →

November 25, 2015

“Pope Francis is creating new kinds of conversations. This moral guidance, this moral obligation to our children and to future generations is really resonating with people, and he’s doing it with such hope.” More →

November 25, 2015

“Carbon-based energy development is the best friend for poor people and would give them the best chance at life.” More →

November 25, 2015

“Who will protect the environment? In the West and in China, it’s the government’s responsibility,” says Tashi Sange, a Tibetan Buddhist monk and conservationist. “This is not the Buddhist way. If you think that way you are not Buddhist. You are the protector. You have the responsibility.” More →

October 24, 2014

“This is an issue about protecting the incredible gift of life God has given us,” says Rev. Fletcher Harper, executive director of GreenFaith, which led an interfaith delegation at the People’s Climate March in New York. More →

September 25, 2014

“We saw in our texts, in the Qur’an and Hadith, that there’s so much about protecting the earth and seeing nature as a sign for us to reflect upon, but we weren’t seeing that in our communities.” More →

April 19, 2013

“I’m trying to run my campaign now in a way that’s true to who I am spiritually but also to some spirituality realities of the moment,” says US Senate candidate and former Virginia governor Tim Kaine. More →

September 4, 2012

Some estimates predict that the glaciers of Mount Kilimanjaro will disappear completely by 2020. Without the ice and snow, the rivers that flow down the mountain will simply dry up. “Then there is no life here. The people will have to move or they die,” says assistant bishop Frederick Shoo. More →

July 13, 2012

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