Photo from hazon.org Left Photo: Cambodian pagodas are preparing their own Plans for Generational Change Right Photo: A Jewish Seven Year Plan is being discussed in key meetings in Jerusalem, London and New York. Left Photo: ECOSIKH is launched in July 2009 by Sikhs in the US and India to form a Five Year Plan to protect the environment. Right Photo: Daoists in China are holding meetings about their own Eight Year Plans  ......“Many Heavens, One Earth”...... ......MEETING of world religions.... .......Representatives of nine of the world’s major religions met at Windsor Castle in Great Britain on november 2-4, 2009..... to pledge actions aimed at stemming global warming..... Olav Kjorven, an assistant secretary general at the United Nations involved with the meeting says: "......Religions  run more than half the world’s schools, so tweaking a curriculum to include more on the environment can have a big impact." ".......Their vast financial holdings provide & leverage and capital for investments with environmental or social benefits....." ".......What religion has to offer when it comes to mobilizing for action on climate change or any environmental issue has been completely not taken into a count so far.......” ARC created an Event website for the Windsor Event, Many Heavens, One Earth: Faith Commitments for a Living Planet, which was held from November 2-4, 2009. PVAF has a primary mandate to bring the entire diverse humanity on this planet earth on "one page of life"....commensurate with its name "Prajaapati Vishva Aashram Foundation".... ....In sNskRUt language Prajaapati means the Creator of all that exists in the universe....Vishva means the entire world of our existence...and Aashram means a place were one can meet others who are pursuing the search for True Knowledge which will empower each of all to co-exist in harmony with all .....although each of all has a diverse lifestyle, culture, faith system, and infinite other diversity from others as per the Creator's design of creating infinite diversity in its creations..... And thus continuing to meet this PVAF mandate....PVAF is publishing today's news story summarized above of the MANY HEAVENS ONE EARTH meeting in London, UK held November 2 to 4, 2009.....along with related information which will help YOU to understand the backgrounder to this meeting of the world's largest 9 religions....   Please click on the next line to go to the next web page to read the text of today's news story and also use the links for related information which forms the backgrounder to the news.....

......Millions of Muslims go on the annual Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca and Medina every year. A new high speed train planned by Saudi Arabia  is bound to make the journey smoother, cooler, and much more environmentally-friendly...... Stanislav Saling/UNDP ......TODAY'S NEW STORY.... Religion’s Role in the Climate Challenge (from: NNew York Times: Dot Earth Blog: November 3, 2009:  By Andrew C. Revkin) ....You can click on the name hilites in this news story to learn more about the plans by various religious and other organizations to fight the CLIMATE CHANGE CHALLENGE... A remarkable conclave of leading figures from nine of the world’s major religions is under way at Windsor Castle in Britain, under the auspices of Prince Philip and the United Nations secretary general, Ban Ki-moon. Called “Many Heavens, One Earth,”  the meeting is intended to generate commitments for actions by religious organizations, congregants and countries that could reduce emissions of greenhouse gases or otherwise limit the human impact on the environment. Much of the discourse over climate has been focused on gigatons of gases, megawatt hours of electricity, miles per gallon or details of diplomatic accords or legislation. But Olav Kjorven, an assistant secretary general at the United Nations involved with the meeting, spent the last year visiting religious orders around the world to see what faiths could bring to the climate table. The answer, Mr. Kjorven told me, is a lot, and not simply in prayerr. Religions, he explained, run more than half the world’s schools, so tweaking a curriculum to include more on the environment can have a big impact. Their vast financial holdings provide leverage and capital for investments with environmental or social benefits. At the conference, which ends on Wednesday, November 4,2009, many faiths will be announcing long-term plans to make more of an impact in an arena that has not tended to be a top priority. An EcoSikh movement is one result. Mr. Kjorven noted a plan to reduce the environmental impact of the hajj, the annual Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca. “What religion has to offer when it comes to mobilizing for action on climate change or any environmental issue has been completely not taken into a count so far,” Mr. Kjorven said. “The environmental agenda has always had an anchor in science, facts and data. Religion tended to be seen by secular science-oriented people as superstition. Besides, those are the guys who think evolution never happened.   “And religions sometimes have not been very interested, either. For decades, several faiths were looking the other way even though in their traditions, when you go further back in Scriptures, have a lot to say in terms of caring for creation. There are segments of the evangelical movement that certainly are still not interested, but by and large religions are becoming a major voice, and you can hear them in a powerful way in Windsor.” I sent the following question to some of the participants: "Science delineates what is likely to happen as humans increasingly dominate Earth systems. But data are not a prescription. It is values, including religious views, that shape responses, both personal and societal. Has the reality that decisions on climate and related matters will be made as much based on values as science been adequately conveyed?" If not, why not? If yes, how can a common global goal on avoiding climate instability and safeguarding the planet’s biological patrimony realistically be sought given the variety of views and values around the world? ........Please click here to read the long term plans and latest news of the CLIMATE CHANGE CHALLENGE from communities around the world from the website Alliance of Religions and Conservation (ARC)... .....RESPONSE TO THE ABOBVE NEWS FROM CONCERNED EARTHLINGS ALL OVER THE WORLD... please click here to read on the DOT EARTH BLOG page on the NEW YORK TIMES website....

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