people of faith engaging creation and justice
I had a talk with a friend yesterday about her desire to install solar panels in her home, but how the $8,000 and up price tag, despite rebates and tax incentives, was too much to handle. “What we need,” she said, “is for any Joe Shmo to be able to go down to Home Depot [...]
The process for getting a man on the moon started with JFK saying we could do it in an inexplicably short amount of time. So there’s no reason we can’t do this.
Well, not really – at least, not yet. As Stephanie knows, I gave being vegan a try and I didn’t do very well. I just don’t like beans! And seitan, don’t get me started on seitan… But then I saw this and it contains an aspect to hydrofracking that had haunted me for a while, [...]
Since over 2,000 people have pledged to protest the proposed Tar Sands pipeline (and in doing so are pledging to be arrested in front of the White House), here’s a primer on the Canadian Tar Sands. Bill McKibben was already arrested on Friday; the protest will continue for weeks.
For weeks, I was looking forward to the Albany hydrofracking rally on May 2nd. A friend who works in state government said that rallies were getting more common. “Does that mean that legislators are starting to tune us out?” I asked. No, he answered, but nor are we changing anyone’s mind. People who are against [...]
Yes, I do go on about hydrofracking. I know it’s sometimes not what’s needed, to say what I don’t want, and should focus on what I do want – and I do, from time to time. But then I see open statements like Josh Fox’s and am re-energized to fight hydrofracking because it’s the right [...]
An MIT scientist says that he’s developed a method for powering a house for a day on a gallon of water, and what makes it different from previous, similar innovations is that this time, it can be done economically. That it’s being marketed in India is great, if only because if every house in India [...]
A friend suggested that President Obama’s recent announcement that he’ll press for coal mining expansion is a reverse-psychology ploy to get us more down with nuclear energy. Hopefully not (I hate reverse psychology. I’m just not quick enough to realize it when I see it.) But the news produced a flurry of stories on alternative [...]
I have to start off this blog post by saying I do think people can change. This title comes from a recent This American Life episode entitled Kid Politics, which delves into whether or not a young climate change disbeliever – a teenager deeply skeptical about the scientific method and scientists – can be convinced [...]
When I heard that Tea Party didn’t like the concept of sustainability because it’s a gateway drug to Socialism, I laughed. Not for a long time, like I did listening to Adam Sandler’s Thanksgiving song, but in a way that, when the tears were wiped away, stuck with me, which I suppose means I took [...]
