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Could This Ancient Jewish Practice Be a New Tool for Sustainable Agriculture?

April 17, 2019
By Ethan Blake
YES! Magazine

Schoolchildren gather around a seemingly neglected garden bed at Urban Adamah, a Jewish farm and educational center in Berkeley, California. Educator Ariela Ronay-Jinich shows the students that while the plot appears abandoned, it’s actually the farm’s most fertile patch of soil. The...

Would Pope Francis back the Green New Deal?

April 15, 2019
By Brian Roewe
National Catholic Reporter

“Everything is connected.”

With those words, Pope Francis began Paragraph 91 of his landmark encyclical “Laudato Si’, on Care for Our Common Home.” He continued...

The Renegade Nuns Who Took On a Pipeline

April 10, 2019
By Eliza Griswold
The New Yorker

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Where science warnings fail, can moral force push us out of climate inertia?

April 8, 2019
By Brian Roewe
National Catholic Reporter

The world today is filled with the reality and repercussions of a changing climate.

Glaciers are melting. Intense storms are strengthening. Seas are rising. Floods are spreading. Heat waves and droughts are prolonging. And the destruction and disruption all those events bring to people in all parts of the globe...

Farmers benefit from organic farming initiated by sisters

April 8, 2019
By Joachim Pham
Global Sisters Report

Mary Tran Thi Thu is busy every day watering, weeding, hoeing and fertilizing vegetable beds on her 3,000-square-yard farm.

Thu, 52, uses traps to kill insects and butterflies at night and catches caterpillars by hand to keep them from feeding on crops.

She makes organic fertilizers by mixing pig feces with dry...

Amazon synod to take on land use, biodiversity, indigenous rights

April 8, 2019
By Brian Roewe
National Catholic Reporter

In the fall, a special Synod of Bishops for the Pan-Amazonian region will mark the Catholic Church’s most serious reentry into the ecological arena since Francis issued “Laudato Si’, on Care for Our Common Home” nearly four years ago.

Eco-warrior, and citizen of the world: Kehkashan Basu

By Gerd Braune
CREDO
XXVIII 2019

Being an activist isn’t a matter of age, says Kehkashan Basu, the young woman who set up the Green Hope Foundation. Since early childhood, she’s been campaigning single-mindedly and passionately for environmental protection, sustainability and the rights of children.

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Connecting the environment and the church: Nathan Empsall '19 M.Div.

April 5, 2019
Yale Divinity School

Cambridge's burgeoning Muslim community to benefit from new 'eco' Mosque

April 4, 2019
By Nashwa Gowanlock
Environmental Journal

A new ‘eco’ mosque in Cambridge hosted its first morning prayers this month — it’s a unique building with world-class environmental credentials and hopes to better serve the city’s burgeoning Muslim community. Freelance journalist Nashwa Gowanlock went to visit for Environment Journal.

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