Around the time of the first Earth Day in 1970, many environmentalists assumed that minority peoples living in impoverished urban…
This last week, I heard Richard Rohr tell the Living School, “The greatest affliction affecting humanity right now is our…
Paul Hawken once reminded us that despite the fact that Americans are consuming more sustainably-produced products than ever before, we…
Much of American society now believes that conservation costs so much money and jobs that the growth of local and…
Today, I heard the always memorable Mary Evelyn Tucker, coauthor of The Journey of the Universe and the Earth Charter’s…
The grassroots ecological restoration movement — not the habitat mitigation engineering profession — has shifted the paradigm in the American…
Saint Francis of Assisi is but one of many charismatic earth-keepers that had the “peripheral vision” to see what was…
On November 29, 1979, Pope John Paul II declared St. Francis the Patron Saint of Ecology, but perhaps we should…
Eight centuries ago, a young dreamer from Assisi named Francesco di Bernardone heard a voice say to him, “Francesco, va’,…