News & Updates
Join Us for a Moral Call to Action on Climate Change
During Earth Day Week
A broad range of religious and faith-based groups and others, are organizing five consecutive days of activities on the climate crisis in Washington, D.C on Earth Day and the week after, April 22-26. Interfaith Moral Action On Climate, which The National Climate Ethics Campaign is a member of, is organizing an action on April 24th that begins with a sunrise vigil at the Martin Luther King, Jr. memorial, a multifaith service at NY Avenue Presbyterian Church, a religious procession down Pennsylvania Avenue to Capitol Hill and meetings with Obama Administration agencies and members of Congress. Local interfaith vigils during this week are also being called for. Please join us!
For the Call to Action, all the endorsers and more information go to:
http://www.interfaithactiononclimatechange.org
Read the Earth Day Network Article: http://www.earthday.org/blog/2011/12/02/national-climate-ethics-campaign
Read the MissionToHumanity.com article: http://www.missiontohumanity.com/2011/12/climate-ethics-campaign-morality-and.html
Read or Listen to an interview with Bob Doppelt on ClimateAccess.org
Read the Washington Post article: Climate change battle framed in moral terms by environmental coalition
Read the article in the UK Guardian: Barack Obama Urged to Change US Stance at UN Climate Summit
Read the UPI article: Obama Urged to Change U.S. Climate Stance
"...taking action to reduce climate change is the moral imperative of our time." - Virginia State Senator Mary Margaret Whipple Read the article here
"Acting on our moral principles will enhance, not diminish, our quality of life..." - Bob Doppelt, The Resource Innovation Group Read the article here
Start your own climate ethics campaign!
Climate Ethics Campaign Handbook
Information on the Ethical and Moral Aspects of Climate Change
Climateethics.org: Rock Ethics Institute, Climate Ethics Program at Penn State University
Moral Ground: Ethical Action for a Planet in Peril, Edited by Kathleen Moore, Oregon State University, and Michael Nelson, Michigan State University
Climate Ethics: Essential Readings, Edited by Stephen Gardner, Simon Caney, Dale Jamieson, and Henry Shue
U.S. Academy of Sciences' Report on the Moral Failure of the U.S. to address Climate Change
Ethics and Value: A Moral Argument for Clean Energy Subsidies, By Walter Borden, taken from Fund Balance: Sustainable Finance, Policy and Social Innovation