Myanmar and human compassion

Cyclone Nargis, which struck Myanmar, is a reminder that we live on an alive and volatile planet. Storms like this one remind us that a combination of extreme weather, ecological degradation (like deforestation), poverty, and injustice can bring about enormous human tragedy.

We’re up against it now - the moral quandary

Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
The current ecological problems are essentially witnesses for the prosecution, testifying that we have violated the laws of life… The verdict is simple: we have mismanaged the ‘domain’ entrusted to us.
Commission for Social Affairs, Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops
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Moral leadership

Teachers, students, religious and others in Waterdown Ontario attend Earth Day events. Meanwhile, the Catholic Conference of Canadian Bishops has released a new, prophetic statement on the environment and the need for conversion

Earth Day

Earth Day 2008. Love the Earth. Cherish your home. It’s the only one we have.

Spirituality of integrity, and also honesty

An ecological spirituality requires integrity and honesty — honesty about the world and who we are in it. The onus is on the wealthy to carry the weight of the societal, economic, and political changes required to save us from catastrophe. It’s in the bible.

Spiritual integrity in a world of growing hunger and desperation

Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
What I want to talk about today is how we are going to live in a world like the one we have made and keep our integrity.
I feel completely overwhelmed by the week’s news on rising global hunger, the energy supply crisis that is driving up the price of […]

The world begins to go hungry

Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
They are eating mud cookies in Haiti.
Haiti has been poor, desperately poor, for a very long time. Last week, the desperation reached a boiling point as the price of food rises across the globe. Haiti has always been a unique example of all that can go wrong […]

A spirituality of hope 2

Two energy paths in front of us diverge: one feeds the engine of growth and leads to disaster, the other leads to simpler, scaled-down lives and can pull us back from the edge of the cliff.

A spirituality of hope

Two paths are before us in our energy future — one leads to ecological destruction, the other is a path of hope, a path of alternative new energies, scaled down lifestyles, and a future on the planet for our children and their children’s children.

“Demand is very strong. Supply is constrained. It’s as simple as that.”

Food prices are soaring because of rising energy costs, production of ethanol and biodiesel fuels, and growing demand. The result is a sharp increase in world hunger.

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