Environment & Ethics - At Street Level
Seeking Ecological Wholeness, and the Way Forward - - William P. Mueller
Saturday, December 3, 2022
Environmental Justice and the Religious Imagination by Tyler Mark Nelson
Read this article at:
https://reflections.yale.edu/article/audacious-odysseys-charting-future-theological-education/environmental-justice-and-religious
Monday, November 14, 2022
Limit of 1.5C global heating is at risk, Alok Sharma warns at Cop27 (from The Guardian)
Wednesday, April 6, 2022
new information on bird population declines
Approximately 40% of our birds are declining; this is yet another report of declines in yet another area (Panama; a country that has been known for an incredibly rich avian variety). Additional articles are found below.
Learn more at:
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/apr/04/bird-populations-in-panama-rainforest-in-severe-decline-study-finds?fbclid=IwAR3w_BpH5-qGXeXixETeztKENVf9Q4lLX_GiM2kfReMbJPGE1dyEgyycJuY
Anthropogenic drivers of avian community turnover from local to regional scales: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/gcb.15967
Understanding widespread declines for Common Terns across inland North America: productivity estimates, causes of reproductive failure, and movement of Common Terns breeding in the large lakes of Manitoba: https://www.ace-eco.org/vol17/iss1/art14/
Hunting for solutions to the loss of avian diversity: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/oryx/article/hunting-for-solutions-to-the-loss-of-avian-diversity/581F3AD4330D5BA31647E26C6E549DD3
Chestnut-mandibled Toucan - ph. by Charles J. Sharp; Wikim. Commons
Saturday, January 29, 2022
"Zen and the Art of Saving the Planet"
This is probably not what you expect. For those who instinctively shy away from anything "spiritual", I wholeheartedly recommend that you read further. Thich Nhat Hanh passed away last week, at age 95. He published 130 books (over 5 million copies), many of them scholarly works on Buddhism, but also many immensely popular works on mindfulness and the pursuit of peace, which he never abandoned, despite untold hardships. Along the way he established many monastic centers and study/practice centers, many built on his philosophy of "interbeing". He was well-known to millions, including many who never claimed membership in anything that even hinted of religion.
Thich Nhat Hanh worked tirelessly for peace,and for humanity's "waking up". He was nominated for the Nobel Prize by Martin Luther King, Jr.
This book shows us how to not give up, though we may frequently feel despair about the future of the Earth and our place on it.
From the publisher's website:
"We face a potent intersection of crises: ecological destruction, rising inequality, racial injustice, and the lasting impacts of a devastating pandemic. The situation is beyond urgent. To face these challenges, we need to find ways to strengthen our clarity, compassion, and courage to act.
Beloved Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh is blazingly clear: there’s one thing we all have the power to change, which can make all the difference, and that is our mind. Our way of looking, seeing, and thinking determines every choice we make, the everyday actions we take or avoid, how we relate to those we love or oppose, and how we react in a crisis."
Highly recommended (as are many of his books).
Sunday, September 19, 2021
learning US History all over again
Reading the extraordinary 2014 volume "An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States", by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, is like a fresh breeze into your mind, causing a re-visioning of much of what we think we've learned about US History.
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