Showing posts with label climate change. Show all posts
Showing posts with label climate change. Show all posts

Friday, March 2, 2012

Caring for Earth: Climate Change as Moral Choice

Our actions reflect our values. Climate change is a complex issue that can be used to explore our values about the environment.

White Violet Center for Eco-Justice will offer Caring for Earth: Climate Change as Moral Choice from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, March 24, at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Ind.
The book, "Moral Ground,"
will be used as framework
to examine varied moral
stances in Caring for Earth:
Climate Change as Moral
Choice
on March 24.

After introducing climate change as an issue, the framework of the recent book, "Moral Ground," will be used to examine the varied moral stances that underlie and support choices we make about our planetary home.

Presenter Sister Mary Lou Dolan is a member of the Sisters of Saint Joseph of Carondelet. She is the director of the Master's in Earth Literacy at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College. She has taught biology at the College of Saint Rose, in Albany, N.Y. and has been a staff member at Spiritearth, an ecological spirituality center.

The cost is $35, which includes lunch. The book "Moral Ground" will be available for purchase. (Moral Ground, ed. KD Moore and MP Nelson. San Antonio: Trinity University Press, 2010 is available in hard, paper and Kindle editions and is recommended.)

The registration deadline is March 20. For more information or to register, contact Robyn Morton at rmorton@spsmw.org or 812-535-2932.
 
Click here to see other eco-spirituality offerings at White Violet Center.

Friday, December 4, 2009

Cap and Trade

At the climate change summit in Copenhagen next week (Dec. 7-18) world leaders will have a historic opportunity to commit to actions that protect us from the disastrous consequences of dangerous climate change.

Approximately 15,000 participants from 192 countries representing governments, the business community, and civil society are anticipated at the 15th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP15).

From the event materials: "The world is facing a major challenge. We cannot continue using fossil fuels the way we do today. Scientists have laid out the risks we face and it has become clearer than ever that now is the time to take serious action on climate change. If we do not act today, the opportunity will not only slip out of our hands but it will also become much more expensive to carry out the necessary low-carbon transition in the future."

To better understand the effect of Cap and Trade on climate change check out this Free Range Studios video by Annie Leonard: http://storyofstuff.com/capandtrade/