Yahoo! News - Holiday Season Prompts Calls for Stronger Ties Between Religion, Environment

Exhortations to simplify the holiday season--buy less, drive less, and stay home with the family--could reach fever pitch next year if growing ties between environmentalists and religious communities in the United States bear fruit, according to a report released Thursday by the Worldwatch Institute.

Reducing consumption and buying more selectively--known as "ethical consumption"--are two areas of broad agreement among greens and many religions around the world, argues Gary Gardner, Worldwatch's director of research and author of the report, 'Invoking the Spirit: Religion and Spirituality in the Quest for a Sustainable World.'