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Authors / Beatrice Ekoko
Beatrice Ekoko is a Hamilton, Ontario-based freelance writer. She is communications manager at Faith & the Common Good, an interfaith environmental network with chapters across Canada. Ekoko has been working on sustainability projects for more than 15 years, including energy conservation, renewable energy, active transportation and local biodiversity protection and…
Catholics, Methodists unite to craft paper on Eucharist, ecology
… The threat of climate destabilization, the destruction of the ozone layer, and the loss of bio-diversity point to a disordered relation between humankind, other living beings and the rest …
Filipino priest wins environmental award for work against nickel mine
… Monday. The foundation noted the priest's leadership in a grassroots movement to protect the biodiversity of Mindoro Island in the northwestern Philippines as well as its indigenous Mangyan … then known as Mindex, when the company proposed to build an open-pit nickel mine near two biodiversity areas, using acid leaching process to reach mineral ores. The process would produce …
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 …