By: Autumn Ayers This year, we are celebrating A Rocha’s 40th birthday! In 1983, Miranda and Peter Harris and their four children moved to southern Portugal to establish Cruzinha: the very first A Rocha field center near the Alvor marshes. The region was on a major migratory route for …
Environment
Can Carbon Offsetting Really Work?
By: Autumn Ayers The whole community of creation–from people to habitats to wildlife–are already suffering the effects of a warming climate, stirring more and more people to take a hard look at their own carbon emissions. For many organizations, companies, and individuals striving to make up for …
Creating Waters of Hope for International Coastal Cleanup
by Autumn Ayers Led by The Ocean Conservancy, the International Coastal Cleanup, held on September 17 each year, inspires over 200,000 people to restore marine ecosystems by tackling plastic pollution. From oceans, lakes, and streams to roadsides, parks, and neighborhoods, the A Rocha worldwide …
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A Rocha USA in SoCal – An Interview with Mark McReynolds
We are excited to welcome Dr. Mark McReynolds as he begins a new A Rocha USA project in Southern California. We caught up with him to hear more of his story and vision for this project. In a few sentences, tell us about your place. Who is there? What are the needs and hopes where you are? Why …
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Pope Francis’ Creation Care Encyclical
By John Humphreys So – the Pope has finally spoken about Creation Care! “If you want to cultivate peace, protect creation!” He goes on, ‘The quest for peace by people of good will surely would become easier if all acknowledge the indivisible relationship between God, human beings, and the whole …
Hope for God’s Groaning World
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 …
Plastic Christianity
by Tom Rowley, A Rocha USA Executive Director From drink bottles to styrofoam cups to those clamshells that ironically protect organic fruits at Costco, plastic—the material so famously and presciently proclaimed as the “future” to Dustin Hoffman in The Graduate—is taking over. Consider the …
An Ethical Framework
By Tom Rowley, A Rocha USA Executive Director If you don’t know where you’re going, you’re sure to get there. When it comes to environmental conservation, that’s exactly where the world is: huge seemingly intractable problems and little consensus on how (and even whether) to address them. More …
Postcard from St Helena
By Peter Harris, co-founder of A Rocha Miranda and I recently visited our son and his family on the island of St Helena. It lies in the middle of the South Atlantic and so the only way to get there is to sail for six days from Cape Town. It was a massive privilege to undertake such an …
Raising the Blinds (with thanks to Eugene Peterson)!
By Tom Rowley, A Rocha USA Executive Director If we are to motivate people to care for the creation, it will take something more than, something different from the standard pleas of the past. “Because God said so” and “because people and planet both need it”—true as those statements are—haven’t …
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