by Helle Liht | Apr 22, 2024 | Feature-, Opinion
Editor’s Note: In honor of Earth Day 2024, we are sharing the following reflection from Helle Liht, which appeared in the March/April issue of Nurturing Faith Journal. It is an adaptation of a presentation she gave to the 2010 Baptist World Congress in Hawaii. My...
by Helle Liht | Apr 20, 2023 | Feature-, Opinion
The theme of Earth Day 2023 is using business language – “Invest In Our Planet” – to promote sustainable development and care for Earth. When I first found out about this theme, my mind immediately constructed different reasons why the business language here is not a...
by Helle Liht | Dec 8, 2021 | Opinion
Oct. 8, 2021, marked for around 1,100 civil society organizations a success long battled for. For years, the activists of these organizations have been campaigning for an understanding that every human being should have a right to live in a safe, clean, healthy and...
by Helle Liht | Apr 21, 2021 | Opinion
One of the key concepts of climate change mitigation is integration. Documents produced by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (UNIPCC) consider integration as an assumption for ecological renewal. And rightly so. In these documents,...
by Helle Liht | Mar 18, 2020 | Opinion
I live by the sea. Every time I walk on its shore or drive past it by car, I have to admit: Water is fascinating. Sometimes still, sometimes stormy. Hundreds of different shades of blue, green and grey. Sometimes reflecting the golden shimmering sun, sometimes the...