. Green Junction Humans have altered much of the Earth to serve their own needs. A 2021 World Economic Forum analysis states that humans have modified the world’s land for agriculture, mining, industrialization, and urbanization. According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, more than one-third of the Earth’s land is now... Continue Reading →
Writing
The Night After the Catacombs
On the evening of 17 November 1965, in a parish church on the working-class edge of Rome, an eighty-three-year-old cardinal sat among about twenty bishops who had once served as his chaplains. The church was Saint Michael Archangel in Pietralata, which the cardinal had chosen himself. His name was Joseph Cardijn. He had worn the... Continue Reading →
The Thursday Group
A storyline of the Rule of Saint Benedict for laypeople, guided by See–Judge–Act At Easter 1912, a twenty-nine-year-old curate in a working-class parish outside Brussels was handed the job nobody wanted: the women’s projects. He started by asking young seamstresses what their working day was actually like, and then he kept coming back to listen.... Continue Reading →
The Cable Office
See, Judge, Act in the age of algorithms. This is part two: Judge and Act, moving from seeing to judgment and action. Part one, See, opens in a Vermont cotton mill in August 1910. Part two: On 21 May 1930, at the Dharasana Salt Works on the Gujarat coast, United Press reporter Webb Miller saw... Continue Reading →
The bottom line is that healthy living requires low exposure to manufactured chemicals. By Julie Peller Ph.D.
Green Junction The American Lung Association describes indoor dust as “animal dander (including dead skin cells), dust mite matter and pollen.” Interestingly, the website also states, “The American Lung Association has partnered with Swiffer to inform Americans about why they should be aware of dust in their homes.” SwifferTM sweepers are made of “specially coated... Continue Reading →
The Girl on the Stamp
See, Judge, Act in the age of algorithms. This is part one: See. In August 1910, a photographer put a notebook in his pocket and stopped next to a girl working at a spinning frame in the North Pownal, Vermont cotton mill. Lewis Hine worked for the National Child Labor Committee, which hired him to... Continue Reading →
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