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A Powerful Plea

DURBAN, South Africa -- Climate change may be of grave concern to many people, but that would have been hard to tell by the sparse size of the crowd that attended a faith-based rally Sunday in King's Park Stadium in Durban, South Africa.

"It was disappointing really," says Peter VanderMeulen, director of the Christian Reformed Church Office of Social Justice, who attended the rally.
Climate Change Nudge for Obama

WASHINGTON, D.C. – In the lead up to the COP-17 climate change summit Nov. 28 – Dec. 9 in Durban, South Africa, the head of international humanitarian agency Church World Service has urged President Barack Obama and State Department negotiators to make good on previous U.S. promises on funding environmental defenses.
Activists Succeed in Delaying Keystone XL Pipeline

Under the leadership of environmentalist and author Bill McKibben, a United Methodist layman, thousands of concerned demonstrators succeeded in delaying the Obama Administration's approval of the controversial Keystone XL Pipeline.

The pipeline is slated to cross thousands of acres of vulnerable U.S. land from its origin in the Canadian tar sands to refineries along the coast of the Gulf of Mexico.
Living with Drought

JOHNSON CITY, Texas (UMNS) - Climatologists forecast central Texas' drought
will continue through next year. First United Methodist Church in
Johnson City will host a free conference on living with drought - a slow-
moving disaster - at 9 a.m. Oct. 15. Blanco County Disaster Response Group
is organizing the event, and Texas state climatologist John Nielsen-Gammon
will be among the speakers. Other speakers will talk about the effects of
the ongoing drought on water supply, gardens, trees and wildlife and discuss
A Time for Creation
Hurricane Irene Aftermath; Deep into 'Dominionism'
Pipeline Protest Continues
The World Is Burning
Faith & the Common Good June 23, 2011
50 States United for Healthy Air