Climate Change Events and News

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What's New?

The Family of Holy Cross is hosting summer retreats:

• JusticeCraft 2010: June 6-13 at Notre Dame, Indiana.  Co-sponsored by the Holy Cross International Justice Office and the Sisters of the Holy Cross.

• Celebrate Universe Story - Its Story, Our Story: August 8-14. Led by Sisters of Holy Cross Marlene Bosch and Denise Turcotte.

In the News

• Resolutions to Actions: LCWR Global Concerns Committee; Vol. 19, No. 1, Feb 2010. ILLth: Uneconomic Growth by David Kane and Kathy McNeely, Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns. 
• Green America's What Goes Up Must Come Down: The Sorry State of Recycling in the Airline Industry. posted 22 February 2010
• Growth isn't possible, a report by The New Economics Foundation (NEF).

  This report argues that indefinite global economic growth is unsustainable.  Just as the laws of thermodynamics constrain the maximum efficiency of a heat engine, economic growth is constrained by the finite nature of our planet’s natural resources (biocapacity). 

  Posted 2 February 2010.

• In Low-Lying Bangladesh, The Sea Takes Human Toll, Yale Environment 360, posted 2 February 2010
• Pope Benedict XVI Urges New Climate Agreement: Address to Diplomatic Corp, 11 January 2010
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• World Health Organization releases new report linking climate change and health impacts, 13 January 2010: Protecting health from climate change: connecting science, policy and people
• Environmental Refugees Unable to Return Home, New York Times, 3 January 2010
• David Suzuki Foundation releases new guide on purchasing carbon offsets. Posted 7 Oct 2009.
  • Complete guide
  • Quick reference table of results 
• A Dangerous Distraction: why offsets are mistakes the U.S. cannot afford to make.  A report by Friends of the Earth. Posted 7 Oct 2009.
• Holy Cross Joint Statement on Climate Change: 
  • Press release, 20 October 2009.
  • Full statement
  • Downloadable pdf.
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