Christianity commands love, including love of enemies, and forgiveness without limit. Then it says none of this can be done by effort alone. From the Good Samaritan to a Charleston courtroom, an essay on a command that follows a gift
In 1943 a Muslim family in the Albanian mountains hid a Jewish family from the German army, and the whole neighbourhood knew. The code they kept took no interest in what they felt. Judaism and Islam build kindness the same way: as a debt, owed before it is felt, and tested at its edge.
To understand Accra’s ecological metabolism is to trace the flow of water, air, and humanity through a rapidly shifting coastal topography. Positioned on the Gulf of Guinea, Ghana’s capital is a delta city grappling with the intersecting forces of breakneck urbanisation, compound flooding, and a warming equatorial climate.
Adelaide is the driest capital city in the driest inhabited continent on Earth, and it has known this about itself for long enough to have developed some genuinely instructive responses. Its investment in recycled water infrastructure, its early and serious engagement with urban heat as a public health emergency, and its stewardship of one of the great metropolitan parkland systems in the Southern Hemisphere all represent hard-won lessons rather than inherited advantages. Whether those lessons are being applied at the speed and scale that a warming Mediterranean climate demands is a more complicated question — and one the city is still in the process of honestly answering
Women have played pivotal yet often underrecognized roles in shaping environmental philosophy from its inception through contemporary discourse. From Ellen Swallow Richards' pioneering...
How Emerson, Thoreau, Fuller, Whitman, and Alcott Illuminate Contemporary Environmental Philosophy
Introduction
In an era of unprecedented environmental crisis, the philosophical foundations for ecological thinking and...
Japanese zen gardens represent humanity's most refined attempt to distill nature's essence into contemplative spaces that serve both aesthetic and spiritual purposes. These minimalist...
The ocean faces an existential crisis requiring immediate, large-scale protection through marine parks. With 37.7% of fish stocks overfished, 11-14 million tonnes of plastic...