In 2008, will we stop destroying the planet?

Humans must stop their violence and exploitation of Nature if we are to preserve life at all.

What should be front page news — but isn’t

The United Nations Environmental Program (UNEP) has just released a new Global Environmental Outlook (GEO-4) flagship report indicating that the environment of our world is in rapid decline.

Folks, we’re in trouble

The California wildfires were driven also by climate change, say scientists, a portend of things to come if we don’t begin to live in balance with the ecosystems of the Earth.

Sad day in the USA

Fires, torndados, drought rage across the country. Now a new report indicating that carbon dioxide emissions are rising at an alarming rate.

“We’re going to get a meter and there’s nothing we can do about it.”

Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
Found a special report in the Pulse section of the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel this morning regarding the imminent flooding of our coastal communities because of rising sea levels. The expected rise by the end of the century is at least one meter, a bit over three feet. These […]

October heat wave adds to global warming fears

Brain-eating amoebas, receding Great Lakes, add to fears of climate change impacts.

Corn ethanol - still wrong

The New York Times has it right today. The costs of corn ethanol are way too high and its production will not solve our energy or our carbon emissions problems.

Teaching peace from the mountains

Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
Last evening, the Catholic peace organization, Pax Christi USA, gave its Teacher of Peace 2007 award to Glenmary priest, Father John Rausch. Fr. Rausch is director of the Catholic Committee of Appalachia, an organization with a long history of defending worker rights, economic justice, and the environment […]

The forests protect us

Forests help protect us from the impacts of hurricanes. Deforestation and overdevelopment of coastlines have increased our vulnerability to these storms, putting more lives and property in harm’s way.

Ravaging the Sacred Earth — for energy

The oil and gas industries are ravaging indigenous sacred lands in Alaska and Canada in the name of energy independence.

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