Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has announced there will be no climate change bill this year. Many of us are disappointed, and outrage better describes the reaction of many who’d let themselves hold hope of responsible leadership concerning climate. I just read the Grist article and comments on this topic.
I respect those willing to keep [...]
Entries Tagged as 'global warming and climate change'
My New Approach To Climate Change
July 23rd, 2010 · 3 Comments · energy, global warming and climate change, sustainability, transportation
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Back On The Bike
June 3rd, 2010 · No Comments · community, global warming and climate change, sustainability, transportation
I’m sipping coffee at Seven Virtues* Coffeehouse on NE Glisan and 60th here in Portland, Oregon. Neil Young’s plaintive song Sugar Mountain is playing on the sound system. I suspect he’s referring to how I drink my coffee. I’m Seven Virtues’ first customer, having bicycled briskly over in the sharply slanted light of early morning.
I [...]
Tags: Bicycle Transportation Alliance·bicycling·Mount Tabor·Seven Virtues Coffeehouse·Stephanie Nolls
Pope And Ian Alterman Respond Faithfully To Climate Change
March 10th, 2010 · 6 Comments · global warming and climate change, spirituality & religion
A letter to the New York Times today encapsulates what I have thought for some time about how Christians and people of faith in general should be responding to global warming. The following is by Ian Alterman, pastor of Spirit Fellowship Ministries (full published version here):
Evolution may be a controversial issue for many Christians, but [...]
Tags: Ian Alterman·Pope Benedict·Spirit Fellowship Ministries
Embracing Our Sphere Of Influence
January 7th, 2010 · 5 Comments · energy, entertainment, food & drink, global warming and climate change, health & well being, home & garden, nature, spirituality & religion, sustainability, transportation
Have you ever stared down a paralyzing fear – and gained mastery of it, to where you then walked into your power, your sphere of influence? This is my long-promised sequel to Alison Cassandra Barcelona, in which I’ll tell why I feel hope rather than despair about
Tags: 350.0rg·collapse·copenhagen talks·faith·nightmares·roommates·sphere of influence
Born For This
December 25th, 2009 · No Comments · global warming and climate change, spirituality & religion
Approaching midnight at my church’s candlelight Christmas Eve service last night, after we had worked our way through the birth-of-Christ story with scripture readings and a goodly assortment of carols, we sang a final song that contained this lyric: Now ye hear of endless bliss / Jesus Christ was born for this!
Those words thrummed that [...]
Tags: Christmas·gifts cards·Jesus Christ·life purpose·President Obama·Starbucks
