A Sustainable Life: Greenwashing – how ads get you to think brands are greener than they are, and how to avoid falling for it
Open University academics MORTEZA ABOLHASANI, GORDON LIU and ZAHRA GOLROKHI look – in an article first published on The Conversation – at how to look beyond “greenwashing”…
Sight-Seeing: And God saw that it was good – creation care and why our silence is deafening
MATTHEW SMEAL explores why so many Christians are quiet on the issue of climate change…
One small wardrobe
One of the things I do in my job is visit people in nursing homes. PICTURE: Rumman Amin/Unsplash Nursing homes, by and large, are quite good places. I used to joke that I was planning to move into one when I turned 40. All your cleaning and cooking is done for you. You have friends […]
Stuff
After almost a decade, we moved. It just so happens to be our first home. PICTURE: Markus Spiske/Unsplash There was lots of excitement about this, but during the unpacking I was confronted with something I didn’t expect – the amount of stuff we have! We had lived out of suitcases for four months, and barely […]
Books: COVID-19 and ‘The End of Greed’
In light of the coronavirus pandemic, MATTHEW SMEAL, of Baptist World Aid Australia, revisits Rev Scott Higgins 2015 book, ‘The End of Greed’…
World’s e-waste “unsustainable”, says UN report citing China, India and US
New Delhi, India/Geneva, SwitzerlandReuters Across the river from Delhi’s Red Fort, the grim neighbourhood of Seelampur lives off what consumers in the modern world throw away – their broken or obsolete electronic and electrical goods. Home to one of the world’s largest markets for e-waste, Seelampur exemplifies the challenge highlighted in a UN-led report released […]
Essay: Responding to COVID-19 is a marathon, not a sprint
US Catholic commentator THOMAS REESE, in an article first published by Religion News Service, says we should be taking the long view on the COVID-19 pandemic…
Essay: Will the world really be different after this is over?
NILS VON KALM looks at whether we can expect changes in the way society operates after the coronavirus outbreak ends…
ESSAY: LENT’S COUNTER-CULTURAL CALL IS AS OLD AS THE CHURCH – AND MORE NECESSARY THAN EVER
US columnist CHARLES C CAMOSY and lawyer SHERIF K MOUSSA, in an article first published on Religion News Service, look at the idea of Lent in today’s unequal world…
A SUSTAINABLE LIFE: EXPERIENCES AREN’T ALWAYS BETTER FOR THE PLANET THAN PRODUCTS – HERE’S HOW TO MAKE MEMORIES SUSTAINABLY
In an article first published on The Conversation, BRENDAN CANAVAN, of the University of Huddersfield, looks at why experiences aren’t always more sustainable than things…