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Rediscovering our Place in Nature - A bible study by Rev Tim Gray

The 7th Millennium Development Goal is to ensure environmental sustainability. It challenges countries to place environmental sustainability on their agendas and to specifically reverse the loss of environmental resources.

11 Apr 2007
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NECCSA Newsletter Nov/Dec 2006

Network of Earthkeeping Christian Communities in South Africa
NECCSA
Update: November/December 2006
A monthly newsletter on Church and Environment in South Africa.

11 Jan 2007
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Article by Bishop Geoff Davies

Poverty and Environment

In government development and planning circles, I am told, two big “no” words are “environment” and “EIAs”. They impede and hinder poverty eradication and the growth and development of our country, which is, without doubt, our overwhelming priority. In the face of violence, crime, racism, AIDS, can we afford the “luxury” of environmental issues?

17 Dec 2006
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Conferences: Nairobi - Photos

A selection of photos from the conference in Nairobi.

30 Nov 2006
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Launch of SAFCEI: Prof Wangari Maathai

Unsurprisingly Nobel Laureate Professor Wangari Maathai is now listed among the worlds 100 most powerful women. Recently she spent a whirlwind week in South Africa, inspiring her growing following, and giving us another reason to be proudly African. In celebration of Nelson Mandela’s 87th birthday, she gave the third Nelson Mandela Foundation lecture in Johannesburg. Besides our beloved ‘Madiba’ Archbishop Desmond Tutu, and former US President Bill Clinton were in attendance and sat in awe of her as she expertly raised the collective consciousness of African civil society several notches, in her speech - broadcasted live throughout Anglophone Africa. But despite all the greatness in attendance the mood was one of unbelievable modesty and humility. Her following in South Africa has been growing ever since she spoke at the Wilderness Foundation Conference back in 2002 in Port Elizabeth. Back then, with due sensitivity to the highly diverse religious, ideological and material interests that animate environmentalists, she had khaki clad conservationists laughing with new age mystics at her characterisation of the human predicament on the planet. “We need to remember that, according to the book of Genesis, the human species was only created on the sixth day. Yet, from the arrogant way we humans treat the earth you would think we were created first! Remember, if God had created us first, we would have all been dead by Tuesday afternoon!”

21 Sep 2005
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