2/28: Honeyguides and honeybadgers

What birds teaming up with badgers teach us about interdependence

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The universe as a whole, in all its manifold relationships, shows forth the inexhaustible riches of God... We understand better the…

On (Not) Giving Up the Environment For Lent

Journeying through Lent with Pope Francis and Laudato Si’

Each year I find myself colliding into Lent. Most years I’m able to get my life together enough to show up at Mass and receive ashes…

2/27: A Sabbath for the Environment

Sabbath, sabbatical, and jubilee as invitations to give nature a rest

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On the seventh day, God rested from all his work. He commanded Israel to set aside each seventh day as a day of rest, a Sabbath, (cf…

2/28: Social Mortgage

John Mulaney, amortization schedules, and carbon use

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Whether believers or not, we are agreed today that the earth is essentially a shared inheritance, whose fruits are meant to benefit…

2/19: The Power of Encounter

Hearing the Cry of the Earth and the Cry of the Poor

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Many professionals, opinion makers, communications media and centers of power, being located in affluent urban areas, are far…

2/26: What harvesting and gleaning teaches us about Lent

The gift of the earth belongs to everyone

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The gift of the earth with its fruits belongs to everyone. Those who tilled and kept the land were…

2/21: Into Great Silence

Carthusian Monks, the Interior Life, and the Environment

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When media and the digital world become omnipresent, their influence can stop people from learning how to live wisely, to think…

3/7: Walking into Hiroshima

What a Jesuit in Japan teaches us about the technocratic paradigm

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There is a tendency to believe that every increase in power means “an increase of ‘progress’ itself ”, an advance in “security, usefulness, welfare…

2/22: Choosing Inaction

Cheerful Recklessness in the Face of Crisis

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At the same time we can note the rise of a false or superficial ecology which bolsters complacency and a cheerful recklessness. As often occurs in…