Bacteria soup is our home. The world around us and the world inside us are a made up of a complex web of microorganisms. Bacteria are more numerous in your body than human cells by a factor of more than 20 to 1. Likewise, just a handful of living soil
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Lee este articulo en espanol aqui. I am in a farming community on the shores of Lake Titicaca. The table is set and the steam from the hot food rises into the heavens. We take a moment to thank all those people who contributed their effort, sweat, work, and care
MoreClick here to read this article in English. Estoy en una comunidad campesina en las orillas del Lago Titicaca. La mesa está puesta y el vapor de la comida caliente sube a los cielos. Tomamos un momento para agradecer a todas las personas que entregaron su esfuerzo, sudor, labor, y
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February 8-10, 2013 Organized by Interfaith Power & Light It’s time for the 2013 National Preach-In on Global Warming, Interfaith Power & Light’s biggest event of the year. On the weekend before Valentine’s Day, thousands of clergy, lay leaders, and other people of faith will speak of their abiding
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Poet John Jackson shares five creation poems as part of the Nov 2012–Jan 2013 issue “Hope for Eco-Activists: Discovering an Environmental Faith“. By John H. Jackson BONE TIRED Nature Bone tired weary From our Industrial assaults Ravenous greed The trees Have migraines Ocala 1993 WONDERING But now I am wondering
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Brief interviews on the relationship between environmental justice and issues like the Keystone XL Pipeline, a U.S. based smelter in Peru (a protest of which is pictured above), the Chad-Cameroon Pipeline, fracking, and destruction along the coast of Louisiana. By Rebecca Barnes-Davies, Associate for Environmental Ministries (PCUSA), with Leslie Woods,
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Psalmists declare to “let the earth rejoice; let the many coastlands be glad!” Economists calculate the incredible value of the goods and services of the sea, such as food, flood protection, minerals and fossil fuels, and buffering of climate, in the tens of trillions of dollars. Over two million kinds
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Photography by Eleanor Bennett View the entire Nov 2012–Jan 2013 issue, “Hope for Eco-Activists: Discovering an Environmental Faith“ Eleanor Leonne Bennett is a 16 year old internationally award winning photographer and artist who has won first places with National Geographic,The World Photography Organisation, Nature’s Best Photography, Papworth
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“This song is for the parched masses: endangered creatures who have no voice and human beings with deserts in their throats.” Visit John Pitney’s website for more of his music and to purchase one of his three CDs. Words & Music by John Pitney Water Song reflections on psalm
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How would our churches and our prophetic ministry be different if we looked to God’s creation as a judge for what is appropriate and what is not? By John R. Preston View and Print as PDF. One Sunday, as an afterthought to Earth Day, I read a short
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