Faith groups and sustainability

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"Ultimately, deep ecological awareness is spiritual or religious awareness. When the concept of the human spirit is understood as the mode of consciousness in which the individual feels a sense of belonging, of connectedness, to the cosmos as a whole, it become clear that ecological awareness is spiritual in its deepest essence." Fritjof Capra

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News UK 2008

• Bishops of Liverpool and London call for carbon fast this lent, February 5

News London

• Diverse communities join London Sustainability Weeks 2007. For the second year running, London Sustainability Weeks, June 3 - 17 2007, will include events from a range of ethnic and faith communities across Greater London, Love London / Diary London

Resources

• 'Sustainable development and UK faith groups: Two sides of the same coin?' October 2005 available via the Sustainable Development Commission's website

International links

Climate change

• The Genesis Covenant, a public commitment by a national religious community to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions from every facility it maintains by a minimum of 50% within ten years.

UK Links

• Christian Ecology Link
• Shrinking The Footprint, The Church of England's national environmental campaign
• Quaker Green Action

Climate change UK

• Operation Noah

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