Just read an excellent article over on AlterNet, discussing what impact Bill Gates’ big speech of a few days ago might have. Gates just announced that he’s putting his massive resources and personal clout behind the target of getting to zero carbon emissions by 2050. Globally. Zero. From the AlterNet article: Gates spoke about his [...]
Posts Tagged ‘inspiration’
25 Mar
Bike there!
I got all excited this morning when I found out that Google maps is now supporting biking directions. Then, of course, I discovered that it’s not available in Canada yet. Boo! Had a lot of fun playing around with it though, as I’m planning a cycling trip through Vermont in a couple of months. It [...]
3 Mar
Rights of Nature
From the Towards an Eco-Economy blog comes an interesting referral to UK environmental lawyer Polly Higgins and her proposal to expand the Universal Declaration of Human Rights to all life forms. 60 years ago the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was born out of the devastation of the humanitarian crisis of the Second World War. [...]
31 Dec
Circles of concern, circles of influence
I just read an article in the current issue of The Canadian Friend that resonated very strongly with me. In “Making Peace With Our Place on the Planet”, Tony McQuail of Kitchener Monthly Meeting writes: Something that has been helpful to me is distinguishing between my circle of concern and my circle of influence. If [...]
26 Nov
Moral analysis
Here’s a great article about our project from Resurgence Magazine by Jack Santa Barbara, the Director of the Sustainable Scale Project and Associate of the Centre for Peace Studies at McMaster University. The neoclassical economic paradigm that has been so successful at providing material goods is clearly identified as the main culprit in both the [...]
10 Nov
Just Finance from the WCC
Hey, back to the actual topic of the blog this morning! All right! The World Council of Churches recently published their “Statement on just finance and the economy of life”. Some excerpts: “The current financial crisis presents an opportunity to re-examine our engagement and action. It is an opportunity for us to discern together how [...]
14 Oct
Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!
What am I thankful for? Ingenuity. Integrity. Awe. Diversity. Strength. Solidarity. Hope.
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 [...]
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 [...]
