The JRI blog has a post this month by Dr Mariann Molnár, researcher, on farm animal welfare in the European Union that should be of interest to many Pollinator readers in that region (and elsewhere). A couple of excerpts: I have found that while farmers are directly responsible for the […]
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The John Ray Initiative in the UK has produced an excellent series of Briefing Papers over the years. The latest, #47 by Robert White, should be of particular interest to creation care practitioners: So-called ‘natural disasters’ such as floods, earthquakes and volcanic eruptions affect huge numbers of people every year. […]
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released a new report two days ago. For those of us who follow this topic closely there was not a lot new. But the message is getting louder and the underlying theme of all of the IPCC reports is clear: time is running out, […]
We have received an excellent report from Eraston Kighoma about a four day ministry trip he recently took to the city of Kisangani (1.2 million people, largest city in the the northeast part of the DRC). Dr. Kighoma, who works with the Centre for Intercultural Missions and Research in Goma […]
One of the best comment pieces we have seen after the COP26 meetings in Glasgow last November comes from Kuki Rokhum who works with EFICOR in India. Kuki is a veteran COP-attender (unlike your editor, who has managed to not attend any COP meeting up to now!) and does a […]
Matthias Boehning of the WEA Sustainability Center has compiled the following important summary of coming events for 2022. Please read, pray, and share: There are great expectations for the new year 2022 in terms of global sustainability efforts. Much has been postponed from 2020 and 2021 to a later date […]
We know that The Pollinator is a global newsletter, and we try not to spend too much time on topics having to do with the US. On the other hand, we also know that the US is not only one of the major contributors to global problems like climate change, […]
There are all kinds of technologies, from carbon capture and sequestration to artificial trees, being proposed to deal with the climate crisis. But this raises an important question: is more technology the best way to tackle a problem that has been created by technology? Our friends at A Rocha have […]
We have received the following report on a major tree-planting effort in Ghana. This came from LWCCN member Rev. Ebenezer Yaw Blasu: (note, this was a pre-event announcement, but the event was successfully concluded according to news reports): Here In Ghana, the Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, Mr Samuel […]
The “Group of Seven” (aka the G-7, the nations representing the world’s largest economies – Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the UK and the United States) will be meeting next week in Cornwall, UK. Though this group has no power of its own, discussions and decisions taken can be extremely […]