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Where does nature live?
… -- on slowing global warming, controlling toxins in the air and water, and protecting biodiversity -- are essential ones for persons of faith. Without doubt, we have an obligation to …
Those who govern should be required to be eco-literate
… The unintended consequences of these uninformed policies are climate change, desertification, biodiversity decline, ocean pollution and the destruction of forests, the article states. Von …
Essay: Power of the dying hierarchy is an illusion
… in a unique historical moment in which the ecological balance of the planet is endangered. Biodiversity is dwindling. The waters are sick. Cultures are increasingly homogenized. As our …
New York's mayor needs to get out more
… This seems to be due to several factors, including malnutrition, monoculture -- the lack of biodiversity -- pesticides, and even cellphone radiation. The solution? Raise queen bees …
Biophilia and the barcode of life
… toward it, why would we be motivated to protect it and see its intrinsic value? … Loss of biodiversity and biophilia … An article published in the May 2 issue of Nature provides evidence that loss of biodiversity impacts ecosystems as much as climate change and pollution. An essential element of …
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 …