Dr. Rev. Brooks Berndt provides a theological framework to rebut climate denialism.
Ecological Transformation
China’s Bold Energy Vision
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Jeffrey Sachs shares how China’s proposed energy initiative is a bold strategy fit for the scale of the most important challenge the world faces today.
Rethinking Religion
Animals Endowed With Rights
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Leonardo Boff asserts: “Whether one acknowledges the dignity of animals depends on that person’s paradigm (vision of the world and values).” Boff breaks down the two paradigms which we need to subvert in order to grow our ecological consciousness.
Spirituality
Healing Ourselves and the Earth
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Get insight into the spiritual healing that accompanies cover artist Orly Faya’s process of painting people in the world.
Environment
Ecological Civilization and the New Enlightenment
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In the era of a new Enlightenment, there must be new understanding of shared power and community to help our environment thrive.
Spirituality
The Magic of Emergence
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Highlighting the mystery of a new wholeness in community, text, organization or a piece of artwork.
Environment
The Real Homeland Security Threat
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Juan Cole argues that the real threat to homeland security isn’t “fringe radicals” in the Middle East but our own environmentally destructive habits.
Politics & Society
The Invisible Monster of Climate Change
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It’s all too easy to envision the disintegration of climate and democracy in John Feffer’s engrossing piece “A Fairy Tale from 2050” coming true in the very near future.
Other Voices
Global Population and the Insane Policy of US State Dept.
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In the wake of the U.S. State Department eliminating American contributions to the United Nations Population Fund, Mary Anne Mercer reminds us of the importance of family planning.
Other Voices
March for the Environment April 29
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Fight against climate change by joining us on April 22 in Washington DC for the #ClimateMarch.
Other Voices
The need for a low-carbon energy based economy won’t go away
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Jeffrey D. Sachs makes it clear why we need to switch to a low-fuel economy.
Other Voices
Soaring Temperature of the Oceans
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Oliver Milman argues us that the soaring temperature of the oceans is the greatest hidden challenge of our generation.
Ecological Transformation
Stand Together or Starve Alone
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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.
Editorials & Actions
Threats to Mother Earth and how to confront them by Leonardo Boff
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Threats to Mother Earth and how to confront them
Leonardo Boff
Theologian-Philosopher
Earthcharter Commission
There are four threats that our Common Home faces, and which demand from us our special attention.
The first is how in modern times the Earth is viewed as an object of ruthless exploitation, seeking only the greatest profits, without regard to life or purpose. This vision, that has brought undeniable benefits, has also created a dis-equilibrium in all the ecosystems, which has caused the present generalized ecological crisis. With that vision entire nations were destroyed, as in Latin America, where the Atlantic jungles, and, in part, the Amazon rain forests, have been devastated.
In January 2015, 18 scientists published in the well known magazine Science, a study on “The planetary limits: a guide for a human development on a planet in mutation”. They enumerated 9 fundamental aspects for the continuity of life. Among them were climate equilibrium, maintenance of bio-diversity, preservation of the ozone layer, and control of acidity of the oceans. All of these aspects are in a state of decline. But two, that they call the “fundamental limits”, are the most degraded: through climate change and the extinction of species.
Editorials & Actions
Bill McKibben on The Real Zombie Apocalypse
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Editor’s note: If you are going to any environmental event in the next few months, (e.g. a Tu B’shvat seder this coming weekend) please ask the attendees to read this very important article by Bill McKibben. Unfortunately, though McKibben recognizes the urgency and to some extent the futility of trying to stop the fossil fuel industry one struggle at a time, he eschews any national strategy. The rest of us need to do better–by insisting that any candidate we vote for any public office in 2016 (from Bernie or Hillary to…well, whoever,in any political party or independent) commit to supporting a mandatory ban on extracting more fossil fuel from the earth than we are already extracting now (which is way too much). This is also where we should be insisting on our elected officials taking steps to pass the ESRA–Environmental and Social Responsibility Amendment to the U.S. Constitution–because although a constitutional amendment may take years to pass, it is the only solution that could bypass the pro-business decisions of a Supreme Court that will declare unconstitutional any legislation that impedes the ability of corporations to maximize their profits. Please re-read it ( www.tikkun.org/esra) and start getting your state and federal legislators (and your city councils and county governments) to endorse it and start the process of amending the constitution, else we are stuck with the hapless task of thousands of battles, some of which will be won but many of which will not.