Sumeru News — Environmental Issues

Ill wind blowing for Cham Shan Temple $40M Kawartha Lakes Retreat Centres

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The Sun News network is reporting that the Ontario government’s plan to build a wind farm that could adversely affect plans that Cham Shan Temple has been working on for more than 20 years to re-create Chinese Buddhism’s four sacred mountain retreats in Kawartha Lakes… The article begins: PETERBOROUGH, Ont. –  Proposed wind farms in... Read more »

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Buddhism and Social Justice – call for papers

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Via Reverend Danny Fisher… This via Buddhist Studies at Leiden University… A NWO-funded Research Project Call for Papers A Conference on Buddhism and Social Justice 23-25 April 2014, Leiden University Moving away from a common perception of Buddhism as intrinsically a tradition of peace and justice, our project—based at Leiden University—seeks to explore the various ways... Read more »

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A declaration of interdependence

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OM IDAM GURU RATNAM MANDALAKAM NIRYATAYAMI More at www.letitripple.org

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Plot to Save the Earth, up close and personal

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Check out our global Buddhist eco-initiative on Facebook at: Plot to Save the Earth! Join us.

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Shodo Spring’s Compassionate Earth Walk

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Shodo Spring’s Compassionate Earth Walk begins in Alberta on July 4th, and will follow the proposed Keystone XL Pipeline route south into the USA. Her initiative was recently profiled in The Huffington Post, with the title – An Inconvenient Walk: A Grandmother’s Invitation.

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