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SAVING THE ENVIRONMENT ALSO A CATALYST FOR RECONCILIATION

Throughout human history, we have seen the world’s religious traditions in perpetual conflict. Despite these conflicts, they still all seem to share a deep connection to the earth and a mutual concern about the many pressing environmental issues of our time. “Creation care,” a common term used by people of faith,  can possibly be [...]

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A More Eco Exit: Green Funerals and Eco Burials

As we have become more aware of the impact that our living has on this planet, we also begin to recognize the effects of our dying. I came across this brief (and nostalgia-inducing) post about eco-burials and was inspired to contemplate the greening of our attitudes toward death. The traditional options: sealing yourself in an [...]

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Hope for the Humpback

For the first time in forty years the Humpback whale is off the endangered species list. Their population currently stands on 40,000. It is now placed in the ‘least concern’ category. One of the reason for their recovery is the banning of commercial whaling in the 1960s. The reason it has taken this long for [...]

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Dead Zones

WASHINGTON — Like a chronic disease spreading through the body, “dead zones” with too little oxygen for life are expanding in the world’s oceans. “We have to realize that hypoxia is not a local problem,” said Robert J. Diaz of the Virginia Institute of Marine Science. “It is a global problem and it has severe consequences [...]

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Waste Not Food Not

My mom always saved her coffee grounds and eggshells. She would put them in a flowerpot until she finally got around to putting them in her flowerbeds. Her sunflowers and tomatoes were always healthy and beautiful. My mom knew about the strong nutrients in food scraps, but I always took it as a farmer’s trick. It [...]

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A “Stern” Report

The ‘Stern Report on the Economics of Climate Change’ was released on October 30, 2006 by Lord Nicholas Stern. Lord Stern is an academic and a British economist, who served as the senior vice-president and chief economist of the World Bank between 2000 and 2003. On July 16, 2005 he was asked by Gordon Brown, [...]

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