Dr. Khadija al-Naki, an educational researcher, discusses Islamic thought in relation to environmental education. Comparing Islamic teachings with Western environmental ethics, al-Naki opens a conversation on how to develop an environmental curriculum in Islamic education systems. This article leaves the reader questioning the role of education in the environmental movement.
Published in the journal International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education.
This article, written by Julio Videras, works to analyze the factors that contributed to a 2002 ban on farming practices in Florida that were deemed cruel to pigs. Not only is religion taken into account (specifically Catholicism and Evangelical denominations), but political and socioeconomic factors are also considered. Videras argues that political affiliation and socioeconomic factors play more of a role in people's opinion of the ban than religious factors do.
This booklet summarizes 35 model environmental justice projects that were highlighted by the National Religious Partnership for the Environment in 1997. Out of more than 100 projects identified and researched within NRPE denominational networks, these 35 were chosen as the most representative and robust. To raise awareness of their work, the local project leaders each wrote letters to Secretary of the Interior Bruce Babbitt and Vice President Al Gore to accompany a meeting of senior religious leaders in Washington, DC, raising a witness to the environmental justice work of these congregations.
