There is a running joke in Canada that the country only has two seasons: winter and construction! Although that may feel true, more recently it has felt that as soon as winter is over, wildfire season begins.
There is a running joke in Canada that the country only has two seasons: winter and construction! Although that may feel true, more recently it has felt that as soon as winter is over, wildfire season begins.
Small talk isn’t on the agenda at a Climate STARR training. Instead, participants introduce themselves by answering the question: “How is your heart?”
The residents of Tehran woke on March 8 to thick, black smoke engulfing their city after the Israeli military bombed fuel depots. The immediate human and environmental impacts of the war were disturbingly evident, but what about the broader climate impact?
In Indonesia, where Christians are a minority, the Christmas tree often serves as a marker of identity. My own family doesn’t keep that tradition, though my children often ask to have one. I always tell them, “That is not a tree. It is plastic that will end up stored in a warehouse like trash.” For us, a Christmas tree has always been a living one, growing quietly in front of our home.
Anabaptists in Jamaica and Cuba are continuing to determine the impact of Hurricane Melissa in early November after the Category 5 storm’s catastrophic wind and flooding damaged several churches.
The Rooted and Grounded Conference on Land and Christian Discipleship explored kinship with all creation Sept. 18-20 at Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary.
Africa must be an architect of its own ecological future, said the continent’s Catholic bishops as they took part in the Second Africa Climate Summit, which ended Sept. 10 in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa.
