Posts Tagged ‘environmental degredation’

Eden and Mountaintop Removal Mining

Oct 23, 2009

Care for the environment represents a challenge for all of humanity. It is a matter of a common and universal duty, that of respecting a common good, destined for all, by preventing anyone from using “with impunity the different categories of beings, whether living or inanimate – animals, plants, the natural elements – simply as ... Read more

In Passion for Justice | Tagged ecology, Eden, environment, environmental degredation, Genesis, Mountaintop Removal Mining, Steward of creation, Thomas Berry

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United Nations Conference on the World Financial and Economic Crisis and Its Impact on Development, New York, June 24-26, 2009

Aug 17, 2009

By Fr. Kevin Dance, CP When the governments of the world met in Doha, Qatar in December 2008 to review progress made in the area of financing for development, the first rumblings of financial chaos could be felt. It was decided that the spreading financial and economic global crisis called for a follow up conference ... Read more

In Passion for Justice | Tagged Economi crisis, environmental degredation, g-192, G-20, g-8, green economy, Joseph Stiglitz, Miguel D’Escoto Brockmann, NGOs, solidarity, United Nations, United Nations Conference on the World Financial and Economic Crisis and Its Impact on Development