2014

What isEco-Spirituality? Why is it Important to All Spiritual Individuals? Eco-Spirituality is a way of life. It is being deeply spiritual, ONE with the CREATOR. Eco-spirituality is based on the sacredness of God’s creation, which is God’s first Revelation(Gen 1:2)   Eco spirituality teaches that divine life extends to all reality, and the Cosmos is an integral part of God’s self-revelation. In eco-spirituality, we explore our relationship with God in the context of our relationship

(Sr. Santana Pereira) Ecology is an interdisciplinary field that includes biology and Earth science. By ecology, we mean the whole science of the relations of the organism to the environment which includes all “conditions of existence.”…  Ecology is closely related to evolutionary biology, genetics, and ethology. Ecologists seek to explain: Life processes, interactions and adaptations The movement of materials and energy through living communities The successional development of ecosystems(explained below) and The abundance and distribution of organisms and biodiversity in the context of the environment.

(Sr. Santana Pereira)Each organism is a part of an intricately linked system of living and non-living elements and Ecology is a science by which we study how organisms-animals, plants and microbes- interact in and with the natural world. Ecology deals with: the ways in which organisms are moulded by their surroundings, how they may use their surroundings and how an area is altered or affected by the presence of an

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  ——–   Heart-breaking pictures have emerged of the moment a giraffe said goodbye to a terminally ill zoo worker, who had spent most of his adult life cleaning the animal’s enclosures. Maintenance worker Mario has terminal cancer and had asked to be taken into the giraffe enclosure at Rotterdam’s Diergaarde Blijdorp zoo. The 54-year-old was wheeled into the enclosure on his hospital bed. Within minutes, the giraffes approached him

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(Sr. Santana Pereira) Greenland’­s immense ice sheet is melting as a result of climate change. Credit Kadir van Lohuizen for The New York Times YOKOHAMA, Japan — Climate change is already having sweeping effects on every continent and throughout the world’s oceans, scientists reported Monday, and they warned that the problem is likely to grow substantially worse unless greenhouse emissions are brought under control. The report by the Intergovernmental Panel on

  (Sr. Santana Pereira) There’s a deceptively still body of water in Tanzania with a deadly secret—it turns any animal it touches to stone. The rare phenomenon is caused by the chemical makeup of the lake, but the petrified creatures it leaves behind are straight out of a horror film. Photographed by Nick Brandt in his new book, Across the Ravaged Land,petrified creatures pepper the area around the lake due to

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