Posts Tagged as ‘ecology’

30 March 2008

Southern African Faith Communities’ Environment Institute

The Southern African Faith Communities’ Environment Institute’s annual conference begins in Johannesburg tomorrow (Monday, March 31). If you are interested, you can find the details here: SAFCEI: SAFCEI AGM and Public Meeting - Johannesburg.
I was rather hoping to attend, but when a service for my car cost R4000 more than I expected, my disposable income [...]

21 January 2008

SAFCEI blog

I recently started a blog on behalf of the Southern African Faith Communities’ Environment Institute (SAFCEI). The blog is simply called SAFCEI, and will contain news on environmental issues that may be of interest to Southern African faith communities, or news of environmental action by Southern African faith communities.
All pretty straighforward, so all [...]

3 November 2007

Greenpeace: genetically modified crops

Forwarded from Greenpeace:
Europe’s top environment politician, EU-Commissioner Stavros Dimas, enraged agro-chemical companies last week when he refused to allow the cultivation of two varieties of genetically modified maize (Bt 11 and 1507).
He said GM crops should not [...]

28 October 2007

Unleaded petrol cuts crime rate

The crime rate has dropped in countries where leaded petrol has been banned, according to a recent report.

clipped from environment.independent.co.uk

Banning lead in petrol is responsible for declining crime rates in Britain, the United States and other countries, startling new research suggests.

Published in the peer-reviewed journal, Environmental Research, the study reports a “very strong association” [...]

27 October 2007

Survival of the survivors

“The speed at which mankind has used the Earth’s resources over the past 20 years has put “humanity’s very survival” at risk, a study involving 1,400 scientists has concluded.”, according to an article cited by Fr David Macgregor.
Should we care? Should we be concerned about this?
More than a century ago a town meeting in Durban [...]

3 October 2007

Christianity, Paganism and the environment

One of the spin-offs from the recent synchroblog on Christianity and Neopaganism (see Notes from underground: Christianity, paganism and literature (synchroblog)), was some comments about ways in which the natural environment is seen.
There was an interesting variety of comments on some of the posts. For some, concern for the natural environment is one of the [...]