Mennonite Weekly Review

Articles : Environment and agriculture

July 19 issue

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  Photo by Jodi H. Beyeler/Goshen College

  Goshen turning turf into prairie

  GOSHEN, Ind. — What was once turf and a collection of recycling bins is becoming a rolling prairie.

  The area is now the first view of the Goshen College campus coming from the south on Main Street. Those maintaining the area added plants in June to what they seeded in October.

June 21 issue

• Disaster leaders see the oil

  PLAQUEMINES PARISH, La. — Maurice Phillips, a commercial fisher, took a group of disaster management leaders out on a small boat to “see the oil” June 7.

June 7 issue

• Evil from the deep

  Humans long have feared that evil lurks in the ocean. And so, in John’s vision of the New Jerusalem, “there was no longer any sea” (Rev. 21:1). The sea’s disappearance symbolizes the defeat of evil, according to Mennonite Publishing Network’s Gather ’Round Sunday school curriculum for May 23.

• Treasure from trash

  LANCASTER, Pa. — Christine Baer got a good idea from trash. Or, rather, what wasn’t going into it.

May 24 issue

• Keeping it simple

  Great editorial on the value of a simple lifestyle! As someone who still has my 20-year-old “Live simply, that others may simply live” T-shirt, I was distressed to see that we “non-plain” Mennonites find so little value in simple living. I wonder what people think “following Jesus in daily life” means, considering that Jesus was an itinerant rabbi with few possessions.

May 17 issue

• Mother, daughter preserve a tradition

  Not that long ago, many people knew how to preserve food. Information about canning, freezing and drying was passed down from generation to generation.

May 3 issue

• MCC aims to shrink carbon footprint

  AKRON, Pa. — Less air travel and improved energy efficiency in buildings are among Mennonite Central Committee’s goals as it aims to shrink its carbon use.

April 12 issue

• An ugly truth in Colombia

  The Body Shop, a leading cosmetics maker, was one of the first corporations to develop a branding based on social responsibility. To build that reputation, it has supported environmental causes, fair trade and human rights.

March 8 issue

• Laurelville event promotes Earth care as faith calling

  MOUNT PLEASANT, Pa. —Wendy Chappell-Dick has tried to creatively reduce her children’s consumption habits.

Jan. 11 issue

• The environment and the poor

  Nations with high greenhouse-gas output have a challenging New Year’s resolution: prepare action plans by the end of January for reducing their emissions.

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