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Resources

Publications

Robert S. White, ed., Creation in Crisis: Christian Perspectives on Sustainability (SPCK, 2009), (contains chapters by KLICE Advisory Council members Robert White and Brian Heap, and by Hilary Marlow and Jonathan Moo).

Audio/Video

Ethics in Brief

The Church's response to the coming 'crisis of sustainability' - Colin Bell
Environmental Apocalypse and Christian Hope - Robert White & Jonathan Moo

KLICE Comment

Colin Bell writes on faith and sustainability.

Media

Jonathan Chaplin articles in the Guardian.

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Events

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More information will be available soon.

Past

'Big Society - Bigger Nature?': October 1, 2011

60 people attended this conference on civil society, big society and the ecological crisis, organised by Dr Peter Scott, director of the Lincoln Theological Institute, University of Manchester. The event was co-sponsored by KLICE and two other organisations. Jonathan Chaplin gave a lecture entitled 'Can "nature" tell us how big society should be?'

Sustainability in Crisis - visit the conference blog

This major conference is the culmination of a 3-year project jointly with the Faraday Institute. It is aimed at practitioners, academics and policy-makers and is interdisciplinary, international, and inter-faith. Its theme is the contribution of Christianity and other major world faiths to diagnosing and addressing issues of sustainability in consumption, productionand governance.

Speakers included:

Andy Atkins - executive director, Friends of the Earth UK
Paul Chambers - senior official, Department of Energy and Climate Change
Juliet Davenport- CEO of Good Energy
Paul Ekins - UCL Energy Institute
Fazlun Khald - Islamic Foundation for Ecological and Environmental Sciences
Bill McKibben - leading US environmental writer and campaigner (350.org)
Ann Pettifor - executive director, Advocacy International

Information about our wide range of panellists is available on the conference website: www.sustainabilty-in-crisis.org

Visit conference blog here.
Read Guardian posting on 'Earth Day' by project staff member Colin Bell.

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Research

Projects: KLICE is a partner in an ambitious three-year project on environmental theology and ethics, called ‘Hope for Creation’, in partnership with the Faraday Institute for Science and Religion, St. Edmund’s College, Cambridge. For more information see the Projects page.

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