Peter Brown was interviewed yesterday on the second hour of The Marc Steiner Show (a radio program in Baltimore), and the podcast of the program is now available. “We think that there is huge evidence that our economic system is in wrong relationship with the planet, and we are dismembering the life support systems of [...]
Archive for September, 2009
22 Sep
To everything, a season
The gardening season is drawing inexorably to a close. Frost warnings in the Townships mean my tomatoes are probably almost done, and it’s time to start picking crabapples for jelly and cheering on my pumpkins in the likely-vain hope that they’ll be big enough for jack-o-lanterns in a month. So for today’s post, here’s a [...]
14 Sep
CURB
Not gonna deny, I was pretty skeptical about Twitter when I was first told to start using it for the Moral Economy Project. These days, though, it’s one of my main sources for daily items of interest. Today’s nifty tidbit is from The Alternative Consumer. The new green acronym: CURB. C – conserve – waste [...]
3 Sep
Symposium videos, part one!
That’s right – the videos from the May 15-16 Montreal symposium are now ready to go! Here’s the first bunch – bear with me here, this is going to be a bit of a long post. More videos to follow shortly! Stuart Myiow gives the “words that come before all else”: Geoff Garver introduces the [...]
2 Sep
Charity in truth
Today I’m pointing you folks to an excellent summary of Pope Benedict’s Encyclical Charity in Truth (Caritas In Veritate), by John Hart, a Professor of Christian Ethics at Boston University. While we find parts of the encyclical problematic, there’s no question that this is an important document which agrees in many particulars with our own [...]
