IN FOCUS Resources, Articles, and Related Links
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Articles and Related Links
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4/26/12 At Genesis Farm we raise serious questions about the global crises and evoke the rich spiritual insights that are within the hearts of all people. Focusing on connections between the health of Earth and of human communities within particular bioregions, we address the basic issues of our time in concert with all people of good will, learning together how to become part of creating that health, both inwardly and outwardly. (continued)
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4/7/12 Achieving food security in the face of climate change; Final report from the Commission on Sustainable Agriculture and Climate Change
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4/3/12 Environmental Symposium, Religion and Environmental Stewardship, June 5-7; Summer Study at Yale Divinity School
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4/1/12 Campus Sustainability: It's About People The Chronicle of Higher Education
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3/16/12 Dr. Mary Evelyn Tucker - AASHE 2010 Conference Keynote
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3/9/12 The total average SAT score of students from families earning more than $100,000 per year is more than 100 points higher than for students in the income range of $50,000 to $60,000. Andrew Delbarco, "A Smug Education?" The New York Times.
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2/28/12 A new series or project launched on Marketplace (NPR): “What is poverty”.
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2/27/12 Climate change and Bangladesh: http://www.marketplace.org/topics/sustainability/food-9-billion/future-food-warming-world
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2/25/12 YERT: The Film 50 States. 1 Year. Zero Garbage? Called to action by a planet in peril, three friends hit the road - packing hope, humor. . .and all of their trash - searching for innovators and citizens solving humanity's greatest environmental crises. Piling on personal challenges as they explore every state in a year (the good, the bad, and the weird), an unexpected turn of events pushes the team to the brink in this award-winning docu-comedy. Featuring Bill McKibben, Wes Jackson, Will Allen, Janine Benyus, Joel Salatin, David Orr, and others.
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2/25/12 The links below are where the real grassroots movements are taking place:
http://ilovemountains.org/
http://www.christiansforthemountains.org/
http://www.crmw.net/
http://www.kftc.org/
http://mountainkeeper.blogspot.com/
http://appvoices.org/
http://www.ohvec.org/
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2/16/12 Save the Children is warning that half a billion children around the world could be physically and mentally stunted unless more effort is made to fight malnutrition. Hunger in the Delhi slums
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2/10/12 Education Gap Grows Between Rich and Poor, Studies Say The widening achievement gap between affluent and low-income students has received less attention than the divide between white and black students, which has narrowed significantly.
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1/10/12 Rotavirus vaccine milestone achieved during proceedings of the ASCODD conference, January 2012, as the first South-East Asian nation implements the World Health Organization’s (WHO) 2009 recommendation to introduce life-saving rotavirus vaccines through its national immunization program. Asia bears a staggering burden of rotavirus disease: 42% of the 435,000 annual global rotavirus-related deaths occur in Asia.The Philippines will begin vaccinating children against rotavirus in 2012
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11/29/11 Dr. Diane Husic in Durban, South Africa attending the U.N. climate conference (COP17). The themes of poverty and inequality are front and center this year. For more information, you can follow her blog posts at: http://moraviancollegeatunfccc.blogspot.com/
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11/29/11 In Two Generations in Poverty: Status and Trends among Parents and Children in the United States; webinar
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11/16/11 Jonathan Kozol's facebook page
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11/4/11 http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/04/us/experts-say-bleak-account-of-poverty-missed-the-mark.html
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11/4/11 ADB, Economics and Research. 2006. Poverty and Development Indicators: Statistics Glossary
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11/4/11 UN. 2001. Poverty and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, E/C.12/2001/10, New York: United Nations
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11/4/11 Barber, Catherine. Notes on Poverty and Inequality. From Poverty to Power Background Paper. Oxfam International 2008
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11/4/11 Emmanuel Saez. Striking it Richer: The Evolution of Top Incomes in the United States. 2009. Edward Wolff. Recent Trends in Household Wealth in the United States: Rising Debt and the Middle-Class Squeeze—an Update to 2007. 2010 Available: http://www.levyinstitute.org/pubs ; http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/2011/tables/11s0710.pdf
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11/4/11 Rajesh Makwana. Global Inequality. 2006
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10/6/2011 In anticipation of World Hunger Day on October 16th, consider reading "THREE FAMINES: Starvation and Politics" by Thomas Keneally; NYTimes.com Book Review
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10/3/2011 On June 29th, 2000, at the launch of the Earth Charter in The Hague, Dr. Maathai offered the remarks found at this link. Her words give us much to think about as we reflect on the themes of sustainability, inequality, and peace and consider the impact the Charter could have at Moravian College
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9/28/2011 As Scorn for Vote Grows, Protests Surge Around the World; The New York Times
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9/13/2011 Poverty rate rises in America, Poverty in America, Number of People without Health Insurance Climbs; CNN Money
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9/13/2011 Tour Shows Migrant Life on the Arizona - Mexico Border; CNN U.S.
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8/14/2011 Creating Sustainable Prosperity in the United States: The Need for Innovation and Leadership; Worldwatch Report 186
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8/30/2011 Draft International Covenant on Environment and Development; IUCN Environmental Law Programme
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7/22/2011 Mary Robinson Foundation Climate Justice
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7/22/2011 Mary Robinson; The Elders
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7/21/2011 ‘It is much worse than people realise’: Mary Robinson visits Somalia; The Journal.IE
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7/7/2011 Climate Change and Your Health: Rising Temperatures, Worsening Ozone Pollution; Union of Concerned Scientists
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7/62011 Climate change will increase threat of war, Chris Huhne to warn; The Observer
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7/2/2011 Kenya; Biofuels land grab in Kenya's Tana Delta fuels talk of war; The Observer
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6/28/2011 Forum on Religion and Ecology
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6/28/2011 Journey of the Universe, a film that sets the cosmic context for ecological and human historical considerations surounding sustainability and the diversity of life forms and cultures.
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6/28/2011 Thomas Berry —"The universe is a communion of subjects, not a collection of objects."
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6/28/2011 The Earth Charter Initiative
