I’ve got Lena Horne on the brain today

Extreme weather — harbinger of the new climate reality

Notice life changing all around us?

Permanent changes are now happening all around us. We will need to decide how we will live through the great upheaval that is coming.

So many things, change all around us

Humans are not in control of Nature, but rather subject to it. We cannot bend Creation to our will.

Withholding information about climate change is immoral

Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
Just think what it would mean if crucial information about dangers to our lives and well-being were kept from us.
Of course, this is done all the time — things like environmental pollution, food contamination, etc. — we deal with realities like this all the time.
We know it is immoral. […]

Climate change heralds dire consequences for U.S., says the U.S.

New government report indicates dire consequences for United States because of climate change.

The crisis of ‘America’ — a Memorial Day weekend reflection

We are currently living in what researchers have called an ecological ‘overshoot and collapse’ mode. The hubris within the U.S. culture is a major obstacle to altering our course towards global catastrophe. Avoiding that catastrophe needs to become the patriotic project of our times.

Is God large enough for evolution?

Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
Just back from a conference in Hiawatha, Iowa, at a wonderful spirituality/ecology center called Prairiewoods, a ministry of the Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration of La Crosse, Wisconsin.
The conference featured Dr. John Haught, a theologian at Georgetown University’s Woodstock Theological Center. Dr. Haught has focused much of […]

Kempthorne and the Polar Bears

Polar bears listed as an endangered species because of global warming, but the Bush adminstration has no intention of addressing the causes of the threat - greenhouse gas emissions.

China and human compassion; south central US and human compassion; Florida and human compassion; Myanmar and human compassion

Myanmar, China, Florida, the south central U.S. all are experiencing the results of ‘natural’ disasters. On our overcrowded depleted planet, we must dig deep into the well of human compassion to find what we need to ease the suffering.

Myanmar and human compassion

Cyclone Nargis, which struck Myanmar, is a reminder that we live on an alive and volatile planet. Storms like this one remind us that a combination of extreme weather, ecological degradation (like deforestation), poverty, and injustice can bring about enormous human tragedy.

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