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Irish priest is the latest Catholic ecological voice
… or articulate on ecological issues. Yet modules like ‘God and geology’ and ‘God and biodiversity’ -- that’s where the excitement is.” If the Catholic world in particular, and the …
Indian state fears development will destroy identity, environment
… transportation. A Philippine project that uses improvements in sanitation, food security and biodiversity to combat climate change and poverty has received an international award in a …
Database of Catholic religious communities and the land
… extensive forests. The monks there have managed the land since 1979 with a goal to restore biodiversity in both flora and fauna. They are planning a 150-acre wetland, savanna, and prairie …
David Suzuki: Studies show small farms better for biodiversity and food security
We largely assume the only way to feed the world's rapidly growing human population is with big-scale industrial agriculture. Also, there is much support for genetically altering food crops to produce large enough quantities on smaller areas to feed the world's people. But, according to a piece by David Suzuki on The Huffington Post Green blog, recent scientific research challenges those…
Richard Sipe suggests Pope Benedict should resign
… about sexual teaching and discipline, a shift recognizing that our core sexual nature is a bio-diverse reality, not a theological construct. Only then will the pope and his men begin to …
Leonardo Boff: Enact a law of socio-environmental responsibility
… eat, drink, walk the grounds, are exposed to climate changes, are immersed in nature, with her biodiversity, inhabited by thousands of millions of bacteria and other micro organisms. That is, …
ESSC Web site reports on environmental and social justice news from the Phillipines
… reports on ESSC’s response to • threatened indigenous land tenure, • human security needs, • biodiversity loss, • human migration and dislocation, • human distress management • climate …
Nine ecological virtues (continued)
… Rich Heffern … Biodiversity: … No one has the whole answer – not even the entire human race. We need each other, … book Silent Spring. That two-word title offered a vision of the world with greatly diminished biodiversity – and it scared the daylights out of us. Since the universe and the Earth itself are …
Small farmers using organic practices can feed the world and cool the planet
… a new paradigm to feed the world while empowering the poor and mitigating climate change and biodiversity loss. English points out that small farmers already produce 70 percent of the …
Book review: Consulting the Genius of the Place, by Wes Jackson
… been a leading voice of the agrarian movement over the last four decades. The themes of place, biodiversity and the virtues of perennial plants that have figured in his previous books converge …
Fr. Sean McDonagh reports from the climate change conference in Mexico
… multilateral processes. That is why it has not signed Law of the Sea, the UN Convention on Biodiversity, the Catajena Protocol on Biosafety and many others. On Dec. 6, ministers from the …