Rolling the calendar back a year to early 2008 and surveying the Canadian media from that vantage point, one could be forgiven a cautious sense of optimism that the pervasive neglect of environmental issues and concerns was finally coming to an end....
Much, maybe most, of what we learn and know about ‘the environment’, we know from the media, broadly defined. Indeed, this applies not only to our beliefs and knowledge about those aspects of the environment, which are regarded as problems or issues for public and political concern, but...
MIT computer scientist Nicholas Negroponte enthused in his book Being Digital in 1995 that the digital landscape was giving rise to a new generation which was free of old prejudices and ignored the limitations of geographical proximity as the only basis for friendship, collaboration, games and neighbourliness. He...
The environmental crisis is a fundamental element of our lives on the globe today, and we cannot conceive of life in the next generation without at the same time engaging with and responding to that crisis. Just as important, however, is that responsible Christian thinking and communication about...
Many people now recognize the critical role of communication in resolving inter-human conflicts. Yet few acknowledge that communication is equally important for our conflicts with the natural world. Within the human realm, we can engage in spoken or written dialogue as a means of conveying our personal interests,...
How are Christian publications covering the issue of ecology? On what basis Christian communicators tackle issues of environment? The following article calls for much needed prophetic communication....