Greenflame
Jottings on science, religion, technology, pop culture, photography and faith from the Aotearoa New Zealand
Category: Environment
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TANSAA and A Rocha host an environmental colloquium next Tuesday (22nd May) at the Bible College of New Zealand in West Auckland, including a public lecture by Professor John Flenley – “For The Beauty of the Earth” (7:30pm) Others speakers include Dr. Anthony Cole, Rev. Dr Anthony Dancer, Dr. Richard Storey, Dr. Carolyn King, Peter…
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Jason has compiled a collection of (MP3) sermons relating to Christian environmental stewardship over at Vineyard Church Sutton Website – Environmental Stewardship / Social Justice Series. Inspired me to create a new category Environment to collate together posts relating to creation, ecology, conservation and the wider world.
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The “Uses of the Bible in Environmental Ethics” research project in the Department of Theology at the University of Exeter looks really interesting. My own research into historical and contemporary interpretation of the image of God motif interacted with human beings relationship with the natural world, so I’ll be looking to see what papers emerge…
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Auckland Zoo is hosting concerts to raise money and awareness about various conservation projects. Performers include Tim Finn, The Black Seeds and Anika Moa. More info at: Concerts for Conservation to feature top Kiwi musicians | Amplifier NZ Music and Events @ The Zoo.
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Today I’ve been adding in some footnotes to articles about food aid to developing countries being linked with the requirement to accept genetically modified foodstuffs or crops. And also the attempts by some governments who supply aid for other problems (e.g. malaria) to make acceptance of GM crops as a condition for receiving that aid.…
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A while back I wrote about viewing technology in ecological terms (Greenflame: Information ecologies). The outworking of this might be called appropriate technology. Ian Barbour, in Ethics in an Age of Technology puts it like this when he says “the welfare of humankind requires a creative technology that is economically productive, ecologically sound, socially just,…
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Looking at information technology, and technology in general, as an ecology is a stimulating idea, and one I’m thinking about in relation to the imago Dei. Much has been written on the relationship between the environment and interpretations of the imago Dei in Gen 1. Is it possible, if we think of technology ecologically, to…
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What you believe eschatologically affects how you live in the world today, and particularly how you treat the world around you. There’s a tendency that if you believe the return of Christ is imminent, or that the world will be ultimately be destroyed (rather than remade) by God at the end of time, for environmental…
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A real “mish-mash” of ideas in this emotional outburst here. See Stuff.co.nz: Federated Farmers’ chief slams environmentalists. Definitely falls towards the “Wise Use” end of the spectrum identified in the article: Jim Ball, “The Use of Ecology in the Evangelical Protestant Response to the Ecological Crisis”, Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith 50 (March 1998),…
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Working on refining the thesis section that notes people who have used the idea of co-creation independently of Philip Hefner’s work. Here’s a quote from Arthur Peacocke on co-creation which he frames within the topic of humanity, creation and concern for the environment: to be co-creator with the ‘living God’ who always actualizes in his…