Ecological justice

When enough is enough

Why a future of endless economic growth is not the cure for what ails the earth. After wandering around an academic wilderness for 30 or so years, a fella...

Now that’s a cold war!

Let’s melt these nationalists’ cold, cold hearts and build an Arctic circle of cooperation. Retreating ice briefly turned the Arctic circle into an...

Let them eat corn

Our agricultural priorities should be on filling hungry bellies, not fuel tanks. The gloomy gus of economics, the Rev. Thomas Malthus, was the guy who put the...

Not-so-special delivery

Sometimes the toxic waste is not just in babies' diapers. The samples reviewed by the researchers at the Washington based Environmental Working Group...

How green is your faith?

We should honor God the Father by caring for our Mother Earth. A recent dispute among Christians brought the gospel to the front page once again in August. At...

Hot enough for you?

The world's poor face an even bleaker future than polar bears, thanks to global warming.   Global warming has proved one of the rare issues capable of...