Green Junction In the United States, most meat comes from livestock raised in concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs). Defined by the EPA as “agricultural operations where animals are kept and raised in confined situations,” the term factory farm is also used to describe the conditions for over 99% of chickens and turkeys, over 98% of... Continue Reading →
Between the Monastery and the Machine
Adult education, using the See–Judge–Act method: Politics~Religion~ Catholic Social Teachings. Thomas Merton’s Wisdom for an Age of Emerging Technology An Often-Forgotten Starting Point: 1899 Before we dive into Merton, Buddhism, or AI, we need to trace the roots of the traditionalist and progressive split in American Catholicism—a rift far older and more intricate than most realize. In 1899, Pope... Continue Reading →
See, Judge, Act, Incorporate
How a Belgian priest’s scribbled method dodged a firing squad and grew into an €11 billion (12,609B USD) Basque powerhouse The paperwork that didn't arrive In the summer of 1937, in Larrinaga prison in Bilbao, a twenty-two-year-old with one working eye was waiting to be shot. Bilbao had fallen to Franco's forces in June. The... Continue Reading →
Two Monks in the Mountains: What a Forgotten Meeting Teaches Us About the Attention Economy. Using
....the See-Judge-Act method, what questions come to mind as you read this for your discernment process? In November 1968, a Trappist monk from Kentucky climbed into the foothills of the Himalayas to meet a 33-year-old refugee. Thomas Merton — the most famous Catholic writer of his generation — had come to Dharamsala, India, to sit... Continue Reading →
The Data Center Problem Is a Human Problem, and It Needs a Human Answer
Let's start with Cofiwch Dryweryn! In 1955, the City of Liverpool decided it needed more water. Sixty miles away, across a national border, there was a valley in North Wales called Tryweryn, and in it a village called Capel Celyn. Forty-eight people, a dozen farms, a chapel, a school, a post office, a graveyard. One... Continue Reading →
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