Global Climate Update – A Grim Picture
The annual report issued by the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) at the beginning of December paints a grim picture regarding the global climate. The WMO is the specialised agency of…
Citizens Climate March on Washington April 29, 2017 – Edmund Rice International Participation
There are always questions for some about the worth of public demonstrations on behalf of good causes. Assembling large contingents requires, among other concerns, months and months of careful planning…
Edmund Rice International Participates in Global March for Science
Science is God’s great gift to the human race because it allows us to wonder at the awe of creation and to better understand our collective vocation as its protector…
Will You March to Save the Planet?
The United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP21) will take place in Paris from Nov 30th until Dec 11th. The conference objective is to achieve a legally binding and universal agreement…
Global Mobilisation for Action on Climate Change – but is it too few and too late?
Hundreds of thousands of people recently took to the streets in over 2000 cities around the world to participate in a People’s Climate March to demand action from world leaders…
Edmund Rice Schools Mark Earth Hour in Latin America
Earth Hour has grown to be the world’s largest mass participation event involving more than 7,000 cities, 7 continents and millions of people. Earth Hour’s mission is three-fold. To bring…
Edmund Rice Society Pioneers Earth Hour Campaign in Zimbabwe.
Preparations to mark the Earth Hour in Zimbabwe started with a workshop at St Patrick’s, CBC Bulawayo. Thirty representatives from different stakeholder groups including local government, churches, schools, environment agencies,…
Earth Hour – the Response of One School Community
Convinced that we are living on borrowed time and consuming resources of Mother Earth that actually belong to future generations, members of the St Joseph’s Bowbazar school community in Kolkata,…
Edmund Rice Society Advocacy in Bulawayo
Fifty teenagers inspired by the Edmund Rice Society held a street march in Bulawayo (Zimbabwe) in September to urge the residents of the city to lower water consumption. The city…
Three Baby Magpies
Despite the chilly rain, spring struggles on, here in France, and the pair of magpies nesting in the pine tree over the back fence finally saw their three offspring launched…