Environmental Stewardship

Pope Benedict Gets It Right

Brian McLaren 7-10-2009

Jim Wallis has provided a helpful summary of the Pope's encyclical Caritas in

Pope Benedict on the Global Economy

Jim Wallis 7-09-2009

As the G8 Summit begins in Italy, Pope Benedict XVI has released a new encyclical on the global economy.

Jesus People Against Pollution: 'People Should Not Still Be in Formaldehyde Trailers'

Elizabeth Palmberg 7-07-2009

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A Necessary Film for Anyone Who Eats Food

Julie Clawson 7-06-2009

"The industry doesn't want you to know the truth about what you are eating, because if you knew you might not want to eat it " - Food, Inc.

Clean Energy and Security Act: If Everyone's Unhappy, It Must Be a Good Compromise

Elizabeth Denlinger Reaves 6-30-2009

I rode my bike to work today. Despite the summer heat, it is not a bad trip

Clean Energy is the 'Space Race' of Our Age

Cesar Baldelomar 6-29-2009

Last Tuesday, as a member of Catholics United, I joined countless others in Washington, D.C., to lobby on behalf of the American Clean Energy and Secu

From Frozen Rebellion to Flowering Seed

Arthur Waskow 6-26-2009

As the band of runaway Israelite slaves wander in their search for freedom, again and again they grow rebellious. In the greatest of these rebellions, Korach criticizes Moses, claiming "The whole community is holy -- all of them! Why do you, Moses and Aaron, raise yourselves above them?" (Numbers 16: 1-3ff)

A Call to Serve and Preserve Creation

Jim Wallis 6-25-2009

I just returned to the United States from a clergy conference I was invited to address by Rev. James Jones, Bishop of Liverpool.

Eco-Justice: Getting There from Here

Elizabeth Palmberg 6-19-2009

As I look at where we need to get, pronto -- 350 parts per million or less carbon in the atmosphere, sustainable use of planetary resources, and a world economy consistent with those things -- and

Green Jobs Take Youth Miles High

Barbara Grady 6-18-2009

When La'Kyla Byrd cleared trails and tended to trees in Denver's City Park this past year as a member of Mile High Youth Corps, she also cleared a p

A Phoenix Rising From GM's Ashes

Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins 6-12-2009

Imagine America's 'Rust Belt' transformed into a green belt of clean energy manufacturing. Imagine the factories of Detroit making wind turbines and solar panels to power America.

Save the Birds

Duane Shank 6-12-2009

As we explore alternative sources of energy, one that is growing in popularity is "wind farms" with row upon row of rotating turbines.

Who Should Pay for Our Pollution?

Elizabeth Denlinger Reaves 6-10-2009

Congress is hard at work on historic energy and climate change legislation. The House of Representatives plans to vote on a bill in the next few weeks, with the Senate to follow in early fall.

Peru: People and Rainforests in Peril

Elizabeth Palmberg 6-09-2009

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The Legacy of an Eco-Prophet: Remembering Thomas Berry

Cesar Baldelomar 6-03-2009

Today's most pressing task for humanity, I believe, is to halt the current environmental crisis.

Reflecting Eden in 'Nuestro Jard

Steve Holt 6-01-2009

For the first time in my life, I have a garden.

Saving Kansas City, One (Green) Step at a Time

Barbara Grady 5-27-2009

Troost Avenue in Kansas City, Missouri, has been dividing rich and poor, black and white, jobless and employed in this city since the days of Jim Crow when it was a legal line of segregation.

A Big Problem for Land Justice

Elizabeth Palmberg 5-18-2009

Why should the world turn away from huge, monocropped factory farms? Pick the reason you like best.

Justice for Vieques

Jim Wallis 5-15-2009

For more than sixty years

Love Your Neighbor, Love the Earth

Jim Wallis 5-14-2009

The industrialized world's collective failure to both regulate pollution and curb gross overconsumption has put millions and billions of the world's poorest and most vulnerable people at increase