February 2014

Community News Archive

How the World's Religions are Responding to Climate Change is a new book that exams perspectives on climate change as they relate to different religions across the globe.

While there is a growing literature in theology and ethics about climate change and religion, little research has been previously published about the ways in which religious institutions, groups and individuals are responding to the problem of climate change. Seventeen research-driven chapters are written by sociologists, anthropologists, geographers and other social scientists. This book explores what effects religions are having, what barriers they are running into or creating, and what this means for the global struggle to address climate change. About.

The Millennium Alliance for Humanity and the Biosphere (MAHB) hosts a blog that shares ideas from global thought leaders on issues associated with the complexity and gravity of the human predicament caused by the threats to sustainability. This is a joint venture between the MAHB and Sustainability Central (SC), based at the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS). Readers of the blogs are encouraged to comment on the posts, hopefully stimulating insightful discourse on the perspectives of the authors.

Click here to access the blog.