By Ben Lowe, Evangelical Environmental Network and Young Evangelicals for Climate Action One of my favorite places in all of America is the St. Lucie River in South Florida. The St. Lucie is a wide tidal river connected to the Indian River Lagoon — the most biodiverse estuary system in the United …
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How Do We Define Success?
By Ben Lowe, Evangelical Environmental Network and Young Evangelicals for Climate Action It’s no secret that there’s a strong undercurrent of discouragement and despair in the conservation community. Given the challenges we’re up against, it’s hardly surprising. Needs can be overwhelming, …
Reconciling Conservation and Development
by Ben Lowe* "If you’re asking me to choose between conservation and development, I’m going to choose development every time."My colleague, Rachel Lamb, and I received this comment repeatedly when we first arrived in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. We were at Université Chrétienne Bilingue du …
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