Articles tagged as Climate-change
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Can Religion Fight Climate Change?
Our scriptures give us a simple solution to fight the real cause of climate change—our greed and propensity to exploit others (including nature).
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God and Smog Conference Promotes Environmental Action in Religious Communities
About 150 students, professors and others attended a one-day conference at Utah State University on October 18th entitled “God and Smog – The Challenge of Preserving our Planet.”
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Parliament of World Religions on Climate Change
Recently, the Parliament of World Relegions issued a statement.
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Trump on Paris Accord: 'We're Getting Out'
President Donald Trump proclaimed Thursday he was withdrawing the US from the Paris climate accord, a sweeping step that fulfills a campaign promise while acutely dampening global efforts to curb global warming.
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Barack Obama Says Fighting Climate Change Means Reforming Food—And Cutting Back on Steak
“I think people naturally understand that big smokestacks have pollution in them and they understand air pollution, so they can easily make the connection between energy production and the idea of greenhouse gases,” Obama said.
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Isopanisad’s Message of Care For Earth Shared at D.C. Climate March
Members of the D.C. Supersonic Kirtan group and devotees from the ISKCON temple in Washington D.C. joined together to chant the Hare Krishna maha-mantra at the Peoples Climate March on April 29th. They also shared a spiritual environmental message from the Sri Isopanisad.
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ISKCON To Participate in Historic Washington D.C. Climate March
ISKCON of Washington D.C. and ISKCON Communications are supporting the massive People’s Climate March in the U.S. capital this Saturday April 29th, and will be sending devotees to attend. The march will be held on the 100th day of the new Trump administration in protest of the parts of his agenda which organizers say are disastrous to the environment. Devotees attending, of course, are not supporting one political party or another but are there to support Mother Earth.
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Meet the Vegan Saudi Prince Who's Turning the Lights on in Jordan
“Climate change and the unjustified consumption of energy are two of the most serious issues we face today at the macro-level.”
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France Declares All New Rooftops Must Be Topped With Plants Or Solar Panels
Green roofs also offer birds a place to call home in the urban jungle.
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Earth Hour 2016: This is our time to #ChangeClimateChange!
t's time to get pumped for Earth Hour 2016! Join us on 19 March, 8.30 p.m. local time, for the biggest grassroots movement for our environment. Together, let's shine a light on climate action and take a stand to #ChangeClimateChange! Sign up here: http://ehour.me/COP21-and-beyond
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ISKCON Can Play A Part in Reducing Climate Change
On December 12th world leaders and representatives of 195 countries agreed to to work together to limit average global warming to 2 degrees Celsius (3.6F) above pre-industrial temperatures. According to CNN, “Failure to set a cap could result in superdroughts, deadlier heat waves, mass extinctions of plants and animals, megafloods and rising seas that could wipe some island countries off the map.”
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Arnold Schwarzenegger Urges People to Stop Eating Meat
The Terminator star urges people to seek alternative sources of protein and avoid eating meat in order to save the planet.
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ISKCON Supports Hindu Declaration on Climate Change
ISKCON has signed the Hindu Declaration on Climate Change issued on November 23rd, showing its support along with 60 other Hindu leaders and organizations. The Declaration was put together by the Bhumi Project at the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies, both of which count ISKCON devotees amongst their staff.
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James Cameron: Wanna Fight Climate Change? Stop Eating Meat.
James Cameron, famed director and well-known climate change activist, has a message for the masses: go vegan to fight climate change.
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PM Modi for Shift in Climate Change Discourse to ‘Climate Justice’
Climate change is a “pressing” global challenge and the poor people are ‘most adversely’ affected by it.
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A Hindu Reflection on Pope's Climate Change Encyclical
As Pope Francis stated in his recent Encyclical on climate change, the reality of climate change "represents one of the principal challenges facing humanity in our day."
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I Seek Pleasure, Don't You?
Having found ourselves in the abyss of an ecological tragedy, the current inheritors of the earth are entitled to a moment of solemn reflection in which we wonder, “Am I really responsible?”
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Young Indigenous Climate Activist's UN Speech on Climate Change
United Nations - Remarks by Xiuhtezcatl, indigenous climate activist and Youth Director of Earth Guardians at the opening segment of the High-level event of the United Nations General Assembly on Climate Change (29 June 2015).
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Religions for Peace New Faiths for Earth Campaign
Religions for Peace is the world's largest and most representative multi-religious coalition dedicated to advancing common action among the world religious communities for peace. Religions for Peace works to transform violent conflict, advance human development, promote just and harmonious societies, and protect the earth. The global Religions for Peace network comprises a World Council of senior religious leaders from all regions of the world; six regional inter-religious bodies and more than ninety national ones; and the Global Women of Faith Network and Global Interfaith Youth Network.
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Leonardo DiCaprio (UN Messenger of Peace) at the Opening of Climate Summit, 2014
“As an actor I pretend for a living,” starts his speech DeCaprio. “I pretend fictitious characters usually solving fictitious problems. I believe that mankind has looked at climate change in the same way. As if it were a fiction. As if pretending that climate change wasn’t real would somehow make it go away.”
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Are We In The Age of Stupid?
The Age of Stupid is a documentary-film set in 2055, a time distinguished by derelict buildings, burning plains, and poverty-stricken, war-ravaged people.Why had people ignored the signs when they “could have saved themselves”?
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The Age of Stupid
The Age of Stupid is a 90-minute film about climate change, set in the future. Oscar-nominated Pete Postlethwaite (In The Name of the Father, Brassed Off) stars as a man living alone in the devasted world of 2055, looking back at archival footage from 2007 and asking: why didn't we stop climate change when we had the chance?
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Coal Rush in India Could Tip Balance on Climate Change
India’s coal rush could push the world past the brink of irreversible climate change, scientists say.
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ISKCON GBC Member Joins in Call for Attention to Climate Change
There is a new multi-faith campaign to raise awareness about climate change. This Diwali, believers from all faiths and geographies across India, will unite their voices in a single unified prayer for the fight against climate change, led by Radhanath Swami, Pujya Swami Chidanand Saraswati and Sister Jayanti Kirpalani. For more information visit: http://www.ourvoices.net/india
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What's Possible: The U.N. Climate Summit Film
Presented to world leaders at the United Nations Climate Summit in New York, this short inspirational film shows that climate change is solvable. We have the technology to harness nature sustainably for a clean, prosperous energy future, but only if we act now. Narrated by Morgan Freeman, it calls on the people of the world to insist leaders get on the path of a livable climate and future for humankind.
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People of Faith March to Save The Planet
As the General Assembly of the United Nations convened in New York, events around the world drew attention to the issue of climate change. In New York City, more than 400,000 people took to the streets in the People's Climate March to make a big statement about the urgency of the issue. Among the marchers were thousands of people representing the full spectrum of faith groups, coming together in the belief that all people are steward's of God's creation.
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How Religious Leaders Are Taking Charge of the Environmental Movement
Congregations should be leading the environmental movement, says the Rev. Canon Sally G. Bingham, president of the Regeneration Project in the USA. -
Krishna Valley Representatives Attend Mexico Climate Summit
Two devotees from ISKCON Hungary’s non-profit Eco-Valley Foundation (EVF) attended the COP16 Climate Summit in Cancun, Mexico from November 29th to December 10th this winter.
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Nigeria Tackling Climate Change Through Religion
The effects of climate change particularly in sub-Saharan Africa are increasingly taking toll on the social and economic well-being of people of the region. Having realized these, some top faith leaders in the region have resolved to explore religion in tackling the menace. -
Copenhagen Devotees Detained With Climate Change Protestors
On Saturday December 12, nine ISKCON devotees were arrested while chanting Hare Krishna outside the 2009 UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen. 80,000 people from around the world had taken to the streets at 3pm on Saturday afternoon in a mostly peaceful rally demanding the gathered political leaders to take stronger action against climate change.
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U.N. Chief Tells World: We Need a Green New Deal
The world must avoid backsliding in fighting global warming and work out a "Green New Deal" to fix its twin climate and economic crises, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Thursday. "We must re-commit ourselves to the urgency of our cause," Ban told a December 1-12 meeting of 100 environment ministers in Poznan, Poland, reviewing progress toward a new U.N. climate treaty meant to be agreed at the end of 2009. -
Global Warming: Science Or Politics?
When millennial climate change patterns are mentioned, many people point to the "2,500 scientists from 130 countries" who have agreed that global warming is caused by the greenhouse effect. Yet not even the International Panel of Climate Change to which these people refer presents definitive scientific proof that the present warming is mostly caused by the greenhouse effect.
