{"id":34430,"date":"2012-09-06T16:00:10","date_gmt":"2012-09-06T16:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/ecen_churches_call_for_a_green_economy\/"},"modified":"2012-09-06T16:00:10","modified_gmt":"2012-09-06T16:00:10","slug":"ecen_churches_call_for_a_green_economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=34430","title":{"rendered":"(ECEN) Churches Call for a Green Economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Radical changes to tackle climate change were discussed by over 90 participants from Catholic, Orthodox and Protestant churches from 22 countries at the 9th Assembly of the European Churches Environment Network (ECEN) this week.<\/p>\n<p>Held at Elspeet in the Netherlands, the theme of \u201d\u02dcEco-Justice, Growth and Hope\u2019 concentrated on the tensions between the desire for conventional economic growth and the increasing ecological threats to Planet Earth.<\/p>\n<p>Delegates spoke of difficulties and struggles in all their countries; a combination of the effects of climate change, environmental destruction with loss of biodiversity and resources such as water, and the ongoing global economic crisis is challenging people and communities across our whole society. And churches are encouraged to be stronger advocates for creative change in the face of these growing concerns.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.anglicancommunion.org\/acns\/digest\/index.cfm\/2012\/9\/5\/Churches-Call-for-a-Green-Economy\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Radical changes to tackle climate change were discussed by over 90 participants from Catholic, Orthodox and Protestant churches from 22 countries at the 9th Assembly of the European Churches Environment Network (ECEN) this week. Held at Elspeet in the Netherlands,<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=34430\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,39,40,42,74,389,158,140,168,119,108,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-religion-news-commentary","category-anglican-provinces","category-church-of-england-coe","category-ecumenical-relations","category-energy-natural-resources","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-globalization","category-religion-culture","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34430\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}