Food insecurity in the U.S. has increased since the beginning of the century. Mark Winne argues that to reverse this trend, food advocates need to collaborate.
2015
Rethinking Agriculture: Protecting Biodiversity Amid Climate Chaos
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Biodiverse systems are more resilient to climate change. As the oceans rise, we must hasten to stop the spread of monocultures and protect biodiversity.
Environment
A Brief Melting Moment
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“Look how that rock dust is basically burning into the ice, transmitting and intensifying the heat of the sun,” said Jeff, leaning over my shoulder. “The huge streams of water that are pouring into the crevasses are breaking up the glacier’s underbody and lubricating its passage toward the sea.” However immobile it might appear, I could now sense how that glacier was collapsing underneath itself, letting loose its thousand-year life in a muddy, rock-strewn river rushing to the Arctic Sea.
Environment
A Real Solution to Environmental Sustainability
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As long as corporations have a fiduciary responsibility to maximize the investments of their stockholders, they have no choice but to make profits their “bottom line.” But we are promoting a New Bottom Line, so that every corporation, government policy, our legal system, health care system, educational system, and every other major system is judged efficient, rational and productive to the extent that they maximize love and caring, environmental sustainability and responsibility, ethical behavior and generosity, and our capacities to respond to the Earth with radical amazement, of which we are an important part.
Home Page Featured
Hope in the Age of Climate Consequences
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We can be hopeful without expecting victory. We can ask what the Earth requires of us in this very moment and just take the next step.
30.2 Spring
Diversity is the Lifeline for the Future of the Climate Movement
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While climate change will negatively impact all of us, people of color and low-income communities will be hit the hardest and have the fewest resources to adapt to the challenges, such as extreme weather and poor air quality, that climate change will bring. Yet, these communities are often underrepresented, if not left out completely.
Climate Change
Unprecedented Moral Challenge
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Will the political world finally rally, acting fast and decisively enough to save a tolerable planet for our descendants? This is an unprecedented moral challenge.
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Let’s Establish the New Moon and Full Moon as Holidays of Earth Preservation
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Today the Gregorian calendar, including the seven-day week, is so intrinsic and essential to the global economy that few ever reflect on how it is a human created contrivance that imposes these cycles on the natural world (note, for instance, weekly patterns of human work and associated pollution).
Eco-Spirituality
Social Justice, the Environment, and Sikhs
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As Sikhs, we are called upon to treat all of humankind as brothers and sisters … and to take action against the gross injustices suffered by our brethren. This means that we must ensure that they do not bear the burden of climate change alone.
30.2 Spring
Climate Change and the Right to Hope
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To what extent is a lack of hope to blame for our inaction on the climate?
Articles
Love Is Stronger Than Stewardship: A Cosmic Christ Path to Planetary Survival
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“Stewardship” is a tired old idea. Let’s stop talking about duty and start talking about the sacredness of creation! The light of Christ is in all beings.
2015
Dharma and Ahimsa: A Hindu Take on Environmental Stewardship
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The dharmic concept of ahimsa (“not to injure”) demands that we take personal and political action to protect the environment.
2015
Looking to the Qur’an in an Age of Climate Disaster
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The Qur’an instructs us to live lightly on this earth. From Zanzibar to Indonesia, Islamic ethics are guiding new conservation efforts.
Buddhism
A Bodhisattva’s Approach to Climate Activism
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Bodhisattvas commit daily to an impossible task: the liberation of all living beings. What can climate activists learn from their active nonattachment?
2015
Prayer as if the Earth Really Matters
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Climate prayer is powerful. Here’s how synagogues can breathe earth awareness into services and activists can make their actions prayerful.