Showing posts with label environment. Show all posts
Showing posts with label environment. Show all posts

Monday 10 August 2015

Three pillars of sustainable development, young people and their rights

United Nations Decade of Education for Sustain...
United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
The member states of the United Nations have this week agreed on ambitious Sustainable Development Goals, but youth has been neglected in the adopted document.

There is made an agreement on a universal, interlinked agenda that applies to all countries and brings together the three pillars of sustainable development: economic, social and environmental. Its core aims – to eradicate hunger and extreme poverty, reduce inequality, achieve gender equality, improve water management and energy, and take urgent action to combat climate change should help to improve millions of lives – will help ensure the future of our planet for forthcoming generations.

But the younger generations are somewhat forgotten. Young people and their rights are not prioritised.

Find more about it on:

European Youth cries out: Sustainable Development Goals ambitious, but lack focus on youth


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Wednesday 15 May 2013

Pope Francis Raises Hopes for an Ecological Church

The new pope’s choice of the name Francis, to honour the Catholic Church’s patron saint of animals and the environment, has awakened the hopes of ecologists and others who are concerned about rampant consumerism and the deterioration of the planet.
The Basilica of Aparecida
The Basilica of Aparecida (Photo credit: Wikipedia)


In Latin America and Africa, “environmental problems are closely linked to poverty, with the poor living in areas that are the most vulnerable to climate change and the degradation of the soil,” he said.

Both environmentalists and bishops in Latin America criticise consumerism and urge people to follow a simpler lifestyle.
The pope’s homily was in line with the recommendations set forth in the final document of the 5th General Conference of the Council of Latin American Bishops in Aparecida, Brazil, in 2007.

Read more: Pope Francis Raises Hopes for an Ecological Church

Indigenous women fetching water from a well near San Cristóbal de las Casas in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas. Credit: Mauricio Ramos/IPS


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Thursday 12 May 2011

Taking care of mother earth

Do we want to make the effort to treat the earth well, no matter what and where others might vandalize it?
Men manages to destroy lots of parts of his environment. Sometimes he does not seem to be aware that he destroys nature. If the earth is to be inevitably destroyed, like sin might destroy us, do we just let the earth go to its destruction?

Men has received the possibility to be master of this earth, meaning that he himself can take care of it. But it does not mean he has to be a dictator over it. We our selves have to take care in the first place of our selfs. It is a very difficult task to come to perfection, but that is what we should try to do. Even as we never quite reach perfection, that fact does not prevent us from talking about the high standard for us of God’s moral perspective.
We should know from the instructions given by God in His Word that God has a moral perspective. The idea of caring for one another and caring for our place on the earth moves us from a reward based faith to a place where we do good for good’s sake, or God’s sake.

Having a small position or a high place in our comunity we do have to take up our responsibility.

You can read how a Royal House tries to keep nature in good order:

Royals, mini busses and environment



As a Global Non-political group of individual Christians waiting for the return of the Lord Jesus Christ we want to take care of nature, the Creation of the Most High.


Dutch version / Nederlandse versie: Zorg dragen voor moeder natuur