Tag Archives: EcoJustice

The Dead Shrew on Dartmoor

I was walking through rolling vistas of rusty bracken and purple heather, on Dartmoor, with an unlikely straggle of lawyers and others. We’d just left Grimspound, the 4,000 year old Neolithic settlement, and were heading towards the medieval village of Widecomb-in-the-Moor. Our topic was Earth Jurisprudence – Does Earth have rights? Can human laws protect […]

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Two Months in Oceania

Oceania is more a state of mind than a place. It is what six former provinces of Christian Brothers are aspiring to become, a complex of islands and oceans, between Asia, Africa and the Americas. Note the stress on oceans (chaos) and remember the first creation story in our Jewish-Christian scriptures. It is that new! […]

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