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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 …
Fr. Sean McDonagh: The acidification of the oceans
… biological diversity in coral reefs. Studies have shown that that at least one quarter of the biodiversity of the oceans are found in coral reefs. Because of their wealth in species, coral … swimming in the ocean. If the oceans become more acidic there will be a serious decline in biodiversity, and thereby affecting a whole raft of species, including humankind as the oceans …
Fr. Charles Brandt: The land as sacred commons, sacramental commons
… expanding universe: greater and greater bonding, greater interiority, and greater and greater bio-diversity. Today this diversity has plummeted, now there is less and less instead of more and … land”. In 1949 he published his classic work the Sand County Almanac, in which he emphasized biodiversity and ecology. As a young forester in New Mexico he was assigned the task of …