This Teaching Note for the instructor provides background on the Encyclical and specific discussion questions which the instructor can use to guide discussion in class. After each discussion question, this note identifies key points students or the instructor should make during the discussion. The teaching note concludes with “A Summary the Instructor May Use to Conclude Discussion.”

Meeting the energy needs of human beings depends on a thorough understanding of the science of energy. Acting to meeting those needs in an environmentally and socially responsible way depends on ethical analysis and spiritual reflection. As with every topic in Healing Earth, today's energy challenges must be approached from the standpoint of an integral ecology--a standpoint that integrates science, ethics, spirituality, and action.

All life depends on Earth's natural resources. In a tragic paradox, human beings are extracting needed, non-renewable resources at a rate that will exhaust the supply for future generations. It is imprudent to place all hope in a technological solution to this paradox. A change in human behavior will have to accompany any realistic attempt to preserve and protect Earth's precious natural resources.

Meeting this challenge must begin with a thorough understanding of the science behind natural resources. Similarly, any proposed actions will require careful ethical analysis and spiritual reflection. As with every topic in Healing Earth, natural resources must be approached from the standpoint of an integral ecology--a standpoint that integrates science, ethics, spirituality, and action.

This chapter of the Healing Earth e-textbook outlines the water's physical structure and characteristics, describes the hydrologic cycle and shows the sources and uses of water. The chapter utilizes the Ignatian pedagogy to further a reader's understanding of water in terms of ethics, spirituality, and action. It includes a case study of the River Ganges.

This set of slides presents an overview of the Jesuit Digital Network -- an online platform and community created to bring high quality academic content in the Jesuit tradition to educators and learners across institutions and regions.

El libro “Mis valores adultos” del padre Gallo Armosino, S. J. menciona que todo hombre vive con valores. Pero ¿Cuáles son esos valores? ¿Qué escala de valores rigen su vida? El ensayo que se estudiará y reflexionará a continuación nos mostrará cuatro valores: la dignidad, la libertad, la responsabilidad y el servicio, éstos desde una visión que evoca nuestra adultez y madurez. A través de estos cuatro valores que se entrelazan, se abre la posibilidad de investigar los demás valores, para que desde mi “yo” personal, los valores puedan comprenderse con mayor profundidad a partir de la experiencia y en conexión con el mundo “vivir e irradiar, en el aula y fuera del aula, los valores”.

Report on a Center conference about the law and ethics of gene patenting.

This Ignatian examen designed for online students will help you shift from a passive recipient of information to an actively engaged learner.

This Online Student Examen is a colloborative project between Academic Technology Services at Le Moyne College and the FacTS Center at Canisius College. It is publically available for students at all Jesuit institutions.

A short summary and several longer documents relating to the 2010 Mexico City conference: Shaping the Future.