I recently read that a Japanese whaling fleet is heading toward Antarctica to kill humpback whales, a species “protected” since the 1960s. This took me back in time. When I was a grad student at Indiana University, nearly 40 years ago, I met the ecologist Garrett Hardin at an AAAS meeting in Chicago. Garrett had […]

Geoengineering solutions to global warming are receiving ever more attention, and for good reason. Science reported that top U.S. climate scientists gathered at Harvard this month to explore ways geoengineering might lower the global temperature. Mimicking the natural cooling effects of volcanic eruptions by releasing massive amounts of sulfur into the atmosphere is one idea. […]

As co-founder of Christians For The Mountains, I encourage church folks to enjoy God’s creation and be responsible caretakers. Our primary advocacy mission is to end the practice of Mountaintop Removal coal extraction. Historically, coal has been mined by burrowing underground tunnels from which the mineral is extracted. In recent decades, the advent of powerful […]

If you had a label, where would you be made? I would be “Made in Valencia” or “Made in California,” or, if we took a broader perspective, I could have one of those little flag logos on my sticker and it would say “Made in the USA.” But would either of these identifiers tell the […]