Environment as main category

Overconsumption cannot be addressed by planting trees and solar changeovers. We need to change our social order.   It is helpful to learn about carbon footprint, charity, reforestation, renewable energy sources, and other measures that [...]

Cognitive conditioning is a troubling factor of overconsumption. Particularly in the wealthiest and most developed parts of the world, we are acclimatized to guiltless comfort in overconsumption. It becomes difficult to challenge this accepted marker [...]

Climate change is an emerging global concern of this century. As with all prior socio-spiritual matters, it is quickly becoming hijacked by capitalism. As a prime example of this, we need only think of Jesus [...]

Not long ago in human history, when matters became unruly and unsustainable in society, commoners would bond together to overthrow the ruling minority. There were altruistic values that superseded selfish purpose among the commune. Today, [...]

Somehow humans are not all in this mess of global warming together, because as death tolls and suffering rise due to climate deterioration, the poorest populations are hit hardest. They are much more impacted by [...]

Other animals can seem to get along, no matter how different the species may be! Yet humans have a hard time accepting members of their own species. Our conflicts, if we think about them, are [...]

Imagine if we decided to stop purchasing print books. Publishers would not be happy to hear this. The publishing industry has made some promotional efforts to show concern for the environment. But most publishing houses [...]

One of the arguments against veganism derives from the natural setting. Lions prey on other animals. They eat other animals. Those against veganism suggest we should also live in this fashion and prey on other [...]

“Life is lived forwards, but understood backwards.” (Søren Kierkegaard) I can almost agree with Socrates in presuming that I would not know much of what I do know if not for hindsight. In hindsight we [...]

The amount of love animals share is simply astonishing. How little love humans share in comparison. We actually have such a scarcity of love that we have created an industry around spiritual movements, scientific studies, [...]

How closely do we relate to identical nurturing traditions in different animal species as testament to God’s oneness?   The likeness of all forms of life to care for their young is a sign of [...]

Figs start off as an enclosed, inverted flower. The shape of their flower inhibits them from relying on bees or wind to spread their pollen in the same way other flowers do. Instead, figs must [...]