Ecological Sustainability Justice

Environmental Changes

 Millennium Ecosystem Assessment:

• Study highlights global decline, BBCNews, 3/30/05

• GreenFacts - Facts on Health and the Environment  (English, French & Spanish)

• Millennium Ecosystem Assessment

Global Warming:

• Changing the Climate: Why Women's Perspectives Matter
• BAN THE BULB: Worldwide Shift to Compact Fluorescents
• The Living Planet Report 2006, 10/24/06
• Africa - Up in Smoke?  The second report from the Working Group on Climate Change and Development
• Climate Change: Clear Trajectory—Haze in the Details  pdf file
• Imagining the Unthinkable: Abrupt Climate Change, World Resources Institute
• World Bank undermines efforts on global warming, Boston Globe 8/11
• Imagining the Unthinkable: Abrupt Climate Change  from World Resources Institute
• Climate Change: Questions and Answers
• Pentagon tells Bush: Climate change will destroy us

• The Sixth Great Extinction, Earth Policy Institute, 3/2/2004

• Climate Change Forecast to Extinguish One Million Species, ENS News, January 8, 2004

• Northern Hemisphere Temperature Hits 2,000 Year High ENS News Service, September 2, 2003

• Record Temps Shrinking World Grain Harvest, Earth Policy News, August 27, 2003

• Red Cross says disasters will outstrip aid as world heats up

• International Civil Society Water Statement from WSSD
• Project to Revive the Aral Sea
• Water - Two Billion People are Dying For It!
  • Planet Ark
  • Key Facts About Water
  • Freshwater
• Water, An Essential Element for Life, a Note prepared by the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace as a contribution of the Holy See to the Third World Water Forum
• Emerging Water Shortages Threaten Food Supplies, Regional Peace, Worldwatch, July 17, 1999
• A River Diverted, the Sea Rushes In by Erik Eckholm, New York Times, April 22, 2003
• Making Every Drop Count by Peter H. Gleick, Scientific Amerian, February 2001
• Water Deficits Growing in Many Countries by Lester R. Brown, August 6, 2002
• Water:  A Sacramental Commons - Resources from the US National Catholic Rural Life Conference

Genetically Engineered Foods:

• GM Food Aid: Africa Denied Choice Once Again?
• Church's Social Teaching and the Ethics of GMOs
  by: Roland Lesseps SJ and Peter Henriot SJ
• Sowing Seeds of Destruction, by Charles M. Benbrook, The New York Times, July 11, 2003
• Hazards of Genetically Engineered Foods and Crops by Ronnie Cummins, Organic Consumers Association 
• Sowing Disaster?  How Genetically Engineered American Corn Has Altered the Global Landscape by Mark Schapiro, The Nation, October 28, 2002
• 8 Things you should know about Patents on Life by Dinyar Godrej, New Internationalist, September 2002
• Are Genetically Altered Foods The Answer to World Hunger? by John Robbins, Earth Island Journal, Winter 2001-2002
• Ten Reasons Why GE Foods Will Not Feed the World prepared by the Corner House, UK
• Why African Leaders Don't want GE Foods by John Vidal, The Guardian, August 30, 2002
• The Gospel and Globalization by Brother David Andrews, CSC

Water Issues in Bangladesh:

• Arsenic tainting Bangladeshi crops, New Scientist, December 6, 2002
• International Conference on Bangladesh Environment-2000, December 19-21, 2002, Dhaka

Environmental Issues in Chimbote, Peru:

• It Rains Fishmeal by Stephanie Boyd, New Internationalist, June 1999