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Cat Zavis: “Barack Needs You, Right Now” – Give Me A Break! 29 Jul 2013 | 04:43 am
OK, this last email pushed me to my limit. The subject line heading read: “Barack needs you, right now.” You’ve got to me kidding me. Barack needs ME? For what? Well Michelle (the email was sent from ...
Sharon Delgado: Agenda 21 vs. the TPP 19 Jul 2013 | 05:13 am
A new wave of reaction to Agenda 21 threatens to confound the public and undermine efforts toward global cooperation on both environment and development. Meanwhile, those who raise the alarm about Age...
Heidi Hutner: Summer’s Gone, or The Bliss of Suburbia 4 Jun 2013 | 11:08 pm
The irony: I moved to the suburbs and bought a house with a yard so I could grow a garden. I moved to a place where I envisioned long solitary walks. A writer's dream. I imagined peaceful summers. I ...
Ngoc Nguyen: ‘The Talk’ — How to Tell Your 8-Year-Old About Climate Change 4 Jun 2013 | 10:58 pm
Bennett agrees that parents play a critical role in responding to climate change, but she said it’s not enough to limit climate action to the home sphere. Groups like Hoyos’ help to connect parents to...
Arlene Goldbard: Upstream 31 May 2013 | 09:26 pm
None of us can address every instance of such indifference, but we have the tools to call attention to those that come directly to our notice. People can change: whistle-blowers are former sleepwalker...
Stephen Phelps: Weekly Sermon: The Word Is Very Near 21 May 2013 | 10:33 pm
Riverside, our crises have arrived. There is the seemingly external crisis of climate change, which many deny; and the crisis internal to the church, namely, to hear together one word why Riverside mu...
David Harris-Gershon: The Case Against Empathy 19 May 2013 | 11:13 pm
However, if we are to survive as a society, if our planet is to survive, we are going to somehow have to become smart enough to rely on reason, and not empathy, to make our most important decisions. Y...
Stephen Phelps: Inherit the Earth: Stay in the City 8 May 2013 | 12:41 am
Christian community has an urgent role in this history. On the one hand, no church can magically separate itself from the spiritual disease of the wider society. If we could, we would be a cult; we wo...
Heidi Hutner: Civil Disobedience and Love: Sandra Steingraber Puts Her Body On the Line 1 May 2013 | 03:06 am
Like Sandra, I know first-hand how the polluting of this planet causes unnecessary and horrific suffering for present and future beings. And, like Sandra, I am frustrated about how little has changed ...
Allen L. Roland: Embrace Life by Embracing the Earth 26 Apr 2013 | 12:06 am
The death of honeybees are the obvious canary in the coal mine as well as nature's safety belt and a warning to humans that we are slowly being poisoned by powerful and greedy chemical companies and t...
