Contributing a little non-toxic odor to the atmosphere, that dready on the corner playing guitar is the icon of the green revolution.  Living off of less that 1,000 dollars a year, eating nuts and berries, using less than 5 gallons of water a week, who could be more environmentally sound? But everyone holds room for [...] Read Full Story

Throughout the history of our planet, we have seen our various faith traditions in perpetual conflict. Despite these conflicts, they still all have a deep connection to the earth and a mutual concern about the many pressing environmental issues of our time. Creation care, a term commonly used by our various faith communities, [...] Read Full Story

Imagine hitting up the local pub, sipping your favorite microbrew, and unwinding after a long day. Now imagine that the people you’re drinking with aren’t coworkers but environmental activists and the overwhelming majority of conversation is centered around biodiesel, backyard gardens, and the only debate is whether wind or solar energy is more efficient.  This [...] Read Full Story

A bi-partisan group, dubbed the “Gang of Ten”, through compromise and the swallowing of a little partisan pride, has come up with proposed legislation that most Americans can support and is really good news for the environment. And it actually might do everything it’s intended to do: reduce our need for foreign oil, reduce [...] Read Full Story

San Francisco developed a plan to enhance bike riding for its residents and create a safer biking environment. In 2004, the city released a 527-page plan with maps, analysis, and a call for more bike lanes and better bike parking. With the improvements, they had hoped to increase bike commuting to 10% of the total [...] Read Full Story

Walking through a plot of fresh grass in your bare feet feels glorious, right? But what if you could saw a patch of grass into your flip flops? Would you do it? I don’t think I would be game for such footwear, but apparently the creators over at Krispy Kreme – yes, the guys [...] Read Full Story

This article about the Sahara being green several thousand years ago gave me a fresh perspective on climate change. It turns out that climate change is, after all, a natural and cyclical process our planet undergoes every few thousand years or so. Deserts becomes forests and vice-versa. Rivers dry out and new ones appear in [...] Read Full Story

I’ve seen an interesting documentary recently, it’s called Earth: Biography. It’s a visually stunning tale of our planet — how it came to be, how the volcanoes operate, what are the tectonic plates, how ice affects our climate and so on. The documentary employs computer animation to visualize some of the hypotheses it presents, but [...] Read Full Story

The concept of an e-book makes sense – you have the ability to read hundreds of books, magazines and newspapers on a digital reader, all while saving the more than 20 million trees that are cut down per year to produce books in the U.S. But you are also using energy which is surely generated [...] Read Full Story

As we have become more aware of the impact that our living has on this planet, we also begin to recognize the effects our dying. I came across this brief (and nostalgia-inducing) post about eco-burials and was inspired to contemplate the greening of our attitudes toward death. The traditional options: sealing yourself in an airtight [...] Read Full Story