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May 14, 2012
New logo for Green Pilgrimage Network
The Green Pilgrimage Network, which was launched at ARC's Celebration in Assisi in November, has a new logo, designed by the team from US-based GreenMaps.
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Last updated May 5, 2012
Great reviews for Martin Palmer's Sacred Land book
BBC Radio 2 presenter Aled Jones called it "a cracker"; there have been reviews and articles in the The Spectator, The Daily Telegraph, The Ecologist, and numerous radio interviews for Martin Palmer's latest book, Sacred Land, published this spring. |
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April 23 2012
New teaching resources for GCSE Religious Studies
ARC has developed teachers' resources, lesson plans, students' notes and worksheets for two GCSE Religious Studies lessons focused on religion, conservation and the significance of the 1986 Assisi Declarations. |
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April 12, 2012
Competition for African faith schools and youth groups
ARC has launched a competition celebrating God's creation and caring for Mother Earth for children in faith schools and youth groups run by our faith partners in sub-Saharan Africa. |
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April 3, 2012
Record numbers celebrated Sikh Environment Day this year
On March 14th, Sikhs celebrated the second Sikh Environment Day (Sikh Vatavaran Diwas) with the incredible number of more than 1,000 institutions participating, more than double the participation recorded in the first Sikh Environment Day in 2011. |
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March 28, 2012
Jerusalem welcomes swifts to the Western Wall
The welcoming of swifts back to the Western Wall has become a ceremony that is held in Jerusalem every springtime. Jerusalem is one of the members of the Green Pilgrimage Network, and this is part of the movement to protect all nature, through thoughtful stewardship, gentle policies, and vigorous campaigning for improvements for all creation. |
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9 March, 2012
ARC office wins Fairtrade thumbs up
ARC's UK office has been given a Gold Award for using and promoting Fairtrade products. |
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March 6, 2012
Nairobi ARC workshop on religion and environmental teaching
More than 50 teachers and faith leaders from Christian and Muslim groups in sub-Saharan Africa are meeting in Nairobi, Kenya, in March 2012, to discuss how to integrate religious values into education on sustainable development in faith schools. |
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February 20, 2012
Green Maps founder Wendy Brawer speaks to ARC
The inspirational founder of Green Maps explains the impact of these resources and outlines some exciting possibilities for initiatives like the Green Pilgrimage Network |
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January 10, 2012
ARC blogs for Club of Rome about how belief is vital for saving the world
As the Club of Rome - a global thinktank made up of independent leading personalities from politics, business and science - marks its 40th birthday, it invites ARC's Martin Palmer to offer it a challenge for the future. |
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November 2, 2011
Green Guide to the Hajj launched at Assisi, Italy
The first guide to an environmentally sustainable Hajj has been launched to encourage Muslim pilgrims - now arriving in Mecca (Makkah) in Saudi Arabia for this year's pilgrimage - to reduce their impact on the Earth. |
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November 1, 2011
PRESS RELEASE: Green Pilgrimage Network launches
A ban on cars on pilgrimage routes; solar panels for cathedral roofs; provision of fresh clean, water for pilgrims, and the planting of thousands of trees around sacred sites - these are just some of the initiatives which the founder members of the Green Pilgrimage Network today pledged to implement. |
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