Call to Action
Several months ago a new book was published entitled Faith for Earth: A Call for Action. It was co-authored by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the World Parliament of Religions.
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New Climate Team
President-Elect Biden has a very ambitious plan to confront climate change directly and re-engage with the world community by once again signing on to the Paris Agreement. The President-elect touted his ambitious climate plan, which seeks to end carbon emissions from power plants by 2035 and proposes broader public investment
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The Realities of Climate Change
One of the recent webinars EarthConnection hosted was entitled “The Realities of Climate Change (and how to respond to climate change deniers)”. Because this topic is so important and not everyone had the opportunity to view the webinar, I am going to use this blog to present some of the
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Earth Day Celebrates 50 Years
The publication of Silent Spring by Rachel Carson in 1962 brought into the open the true cost of the Industrial Revolution on Planet Earth. The book sold more than 500,000 copies in 24 countries and raised public awareness internationally of the interconnectedness between pollution and the health of animals, plants
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Angel of the Amazon
We are all called to care for God’s creation. For some of us it might involve a minor inconvenience such as learning to recycle or to remember to carry our reusable bags to the store. For others it involves the ultimate sacrifice – one’s own life. This year we are
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The events of the past year throughout the world, floods, droughts, historically high temperatures, hurricanes and cyclones, melting glaciers and more, are increasing in frequency and intensity. They are a wake-up call from the planet which we can no longer afford to ignore. Climate change is here and now, not
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In Between Stories
The challenge for us today is to recognize, as Pope Francis tells us multiple times in Laudato Si’, that everything is connected. Nothing in the universe is extraneous, nothing is inconsequential. It is all connected in a tapestry God has created and continually creates. We are part of this new
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An Incident in the Rainforest
The following blog is taken from an article I wrote a number of years ago. The question asked at the end is one I think we all need to consider daily.
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The New Story
The story of creation which we heard recently at the Easter Vigil has been told and retold for millennia. It has been the bedrock of our cosmology, our story of the universe that has interpreted our past and guided and inspired our shaping of the future.
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What is the Green New Deal?
Every four years the federal government is required to release a National Climate Assessment report. The first report was released under the Obama administration in 2014 and led to bold policies to tackle climate change.
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