Pope Benedict the environmentalist

TEN kilometres above the earth, the Pope delivered a message to the people of Sydney: the world is God's creation and humanity needs to safeguard it against the ravages of climate change.

His message, unexpected and delivered in Italian, called for a spiritual response to the environmental crisis and asked Catholics to find "a way of living, a style of life that eases the problems caused to the environment". ("Pontiff's plea to youth: go green," The Age, 14 July 2008)

The Vatican is installing solar cells to produce renewable energy, and it's working with a carbon offset company to establish a forest in Hungary large enough to offset its carbon footprint. The Evangelical Environmental Network is a group of evangelical protestants preaching the same gospel. Nick Matzke nailed it in his review of The Creation:

If conservationists are serious about making their case to evangelicals, they should have the goal of getting biodiversity on the front cover of Christianity Today, the leading evangelical newsmagazine. ... The key is convincing evangelicals that extinction is a moral outrage, something at least as senseless and horrible as book burning. Extinction should be viewed as stealing from future generations.