When secondary school teacher Emma Beukema spends time in the great outdoors, walking her dog or exploring Mount Barker’s Laratinga Wetlands, it’s more than just physical exercise. As Science Learning area leader at St Mary’s College, Emma thinks deeply about the benefits of time spent in nature to our mental health and wellbeing.
There’s a certain kind of magic about orchids. Kildare College teacher and environmental stewardship advocate Paul Beltram knows just how much we can learn from nature’s tiny works of art.
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A book written by the late Fr Denis Edwards OAM has won first place in the Faith and Science category of the 2020 Catholic Book Awards.
Reconciliation with creation is the critical relationship confronting humanity at this time in history, says Sr Patricia Powell RSM from the Rahamim Ecology Centre in Bathurst, New South Wales.
The final book of beloved scholar, priest and theologian Denis Edwards, who died unexpectedly on March 5 2019, was launched in Adelaide last month. Friend and colleague FR JAMES MCEVOY spoke at the launch and wrote this review for The Southern Cross.
The Morrison Government’s failure to respond to Pacific Islands leaders’ pleas for drastic action on climate change has been labelled “little short of shameful” by international relations scholar Joseph Camilleri.
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