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Defending our Common Home: Global and Local Actions

This is an interdependent world. We will not be able to solve any of the environmental challenges—whether it's climate change, the loss of species, or massive pollutants—in any one…

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Moral Advocacy: Religious Leaders

In this chapter, Professor Sachs discusses advocacy to mobilize awareness and action, specifically the work of Pope Francis, who has issued several calls to action, most notably the Laudato Si's…

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Shared Global Vision and Ethics

This chapter serves as a conclusion to the course Globalization: Past and Future. Professor Sachs talks about the need for a shared global vision on ethical values. Part of this task is to design new…

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Pope Francis and Multi-Faith Action

In this chapter, Bishop Marcelo discusses the origin of multi-religious cooperation for sustainable development, a shared commitment to defend human dignity. This video is licensed under the CC…

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Virtue Ethics: A Catholic Perspective

This chapter discusses virtue ethics in the Catholic Church and Laudato Si'. The Catholic tradition talks about "natural law," which straddles both ethics and moral theology. In the…

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The History of Sustainable Development and the SDGs

Jeffrey Sachs outlines 50 years of sustainable development history and its alignment with papal encyclicals regarding social challenges, culminating with Laudato Si’ and the SDGs. This video…

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Pope Francis and the Encyclical

Cardinal Peter Kodwo Appiah Turkson, one of the chief architects of the Laudato Si' encyclical, discusses the context in which the encyclical was conceived and released. Importantly, Laudato…

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Ecological Conversion

Dr. William Vendley discusses how to address integral ecology through personal transformation in addition to collective humanity. He frames this approach in the context of ecological conversion, in…

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