Food security: Report on CFS Session 41
The following article, published in the November-December NewsNotes, was written by Fr. Ken Thesing, MM, who lives and works in Rome.
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Environmental Justice
Climate change is at the center of the environmental challenges facing the global community. Maryknoll missioners around the world witness firsthand the devastating impacts of the changing climate, most egregiously on those who have contributed least to climate change, communities that are poor, powerless, and pushed to the margins by society.
We educate for environmental justice by first clarifying and deepening our own comprehension of these insights: that every creature has the right to be; the right to its habitat; and the right to make its own contribution to all of life. We believe that the global failure to protect our Common Home has become, in reality, a simultaneous assault on the poor and a form of environmental racism.
Maryknoll Leadership Statement on Pope Francis’ encyclical “On Care for Our Common Home“
MARYKNOLL REFLECTIONS ON LAUDATO SI: Ecological conversion: Called to hope, spurred to action
POLICY BRIEF: Climate Change and Care for Creation
WEBINAR: Climate Change and the 2020 Elections
ARTICLE: Maryknoll Missioners Take Climate Action
SPECIAL PROGRAM: Integral Ecology Program
NEWSLETTER: Encounters Where Faith, Economy, Ecology Meet
Civil society groups call on UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples to investigate UN offset project
The following press release from Carbon Market Watch reports on efforts by civil society organizations to raise awareness around the troubling classification of a dam project in Guatemala.
Encounters #3: Facing the reality of peak oil
This edition of Encounters highlights the importance of energy for civilization as we know it and the urgent need for changes in the global economy in order to avoid the worst effects.
Call for faithful leadership at the UN Climate Summit
Sign this petition to President Obama and Congress urging the U.S.’s moral leadership at the UN climate summit in September 2014.
Resources, September-October 2014
A few resources from the September-October 2014 NewsNotes.
Models to curb carbon yield different results
As the global community begins to recognize the dangers of climate disruption, some industrialized nations are starting to implement policies to help alleviate some of the stress put on our planet.
Water and the Keystone XL Pipeline
The following article, published in the September-October 2014 NewsNotes, was written by Christiana Z. Peppard, Ph.D.; it was prepared in response to readers’ reactions to the World Watch column in the May-June Maryknoll magazine, which focused on the faith community’s actions to protest the proposed Keystone XL pipeline.
Japan: Fukushima clean-up challenges
Three years after the Fukushima disaster, Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe seeks to have his country’s decommissioned nuclear power plants restarted and made active again.
Guatemala: Communities attempt to block dam
In mid-August, the Guatemalan government deployed over 1,500 police to Monte Olivo to evict 160 families of the community 9 de Febrero in order to allow the construction of the Santa Rita dam to go forward.
Brazil: Deforestation decreases
While unable to win the World Cup this year, Brazil has become the champion in another, more important area, becoming the country with the largest reductions in the rates of deforestation and carbon emissions.
21st Sunday of Ordinary Time
Fr. John McAuley spent much of his mission life in Asia.
People’s Climate March
September 21, 2014 will see the largest march for climate justice ever, to be held in New York City.
Philippines: Building resilient communities
The following article, written by Maryknoll Sr. Marvie Misolas, was published in the July-August 2014 NewsNotes.
El Salvador: Struggles continue around mining
The following article was prepared by Maryknoll lay missioner Joe Hastings, who lives and serves in El Salvador. It was published in the July-August 2014 NewsNotes.
15th Sunday of Ordinary Time
Sr. Cathy Encarnacion has served as a missioner in Panama and in her native Philippines.
Stopping policies that fuel land grabs in Tanzania
Panel will discuss policies that lead to land grabs in Tanzania.
Guatemala: Stand for peace and against metal mining
The following alert is based on information from our colleagues at the Guatemala Human Rights Commission/USA and other sources.