The students in Kenya understood in the most visceral way the value of water. The misuse of natural resources during our age of climate change is unethical and inhuman. No matter your world view, water is special. Kids get this.
Environment
Posted inArts & Culture, Features
The literary landscape of Barry Lopez
For decades, Lopez has sought to re-establish our ethical relationships with the land and the other creatures who dwell on it. But Lopez, like many authors, struggles against labels.
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
African floods ‘wiped out entire villages’ after cyclone, says Jesuit
A Jesuit from the Zimbabwe-Mozambique province has said that the recent cyclone that hit Africa has “wiped out entire villages”; 2 million people have been affected and more than 700 people have been killed by the storm.
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Women in Amazon take more prominent role in environmental protection
Indigenous women of the Amazon region of Ecuador are taking on an increasingly prominent role in advocating for the environment, and the Church is taking notice.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Brazil’s Bolsonaro is worried about a new ‘leftist’ insurgency: The Catholic Church.
Some members of the armed forces resent the influence and popularity of the Catholic Church in the Amazon.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
How Florida’s new Republican Governor DeSantis is putting the environment on his agenda
Gov. Ron DeSantis has earned cautious praise from environmental groups who say the commitment is a substantive step forward on water quality issues and underlying Everglades restoration challenges.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
What California’s continuous apocalypse can teach us about life
The conceit of California-as-disaster-movie is ridiculous. But maybe watching our fires and mudslides helps other states consider both their own fragility and their underlying strength.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
A 50-year farm bill can break our wasteful patterns of production and consumption
The latest five-year farm bill continues a pattern of subsidizing corporations while squeezing every last drop of use out of farm families and cropland.
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Catholic leaders alarmed by federal climate report
“We really have to wake up and get serious about tackling this issue, particularly reducing our energy consumption and reducing greenhouse gas emissions.”
Posted inDispatches, Faith
Seattle University plans fossil fuel divestment: Will other Jesuit schools follow its lead?
The fossil fuel divestment movement, which started in the 2000s, has become a mainstay of activism on college campuses.