In President Obama’s address from the Oval Office on Tuesday, June 15th, he recognized that American presidents have been attempting to wean the country from its dependence on foreign oil for over 30 years. With the sinking of the Deepwater Horizon in the Gulf of Mexico and the consequent pollution of the Gulf waters [...]
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I am sure that you, like most of the inhabitants of the United States, are appalled by the British Petroleum Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico that is spewing between 5,000 to 100,000 barrels of oil per day (depending on which estimate you go with) into the Gulf of Mexico. What [...] I urge you all to become involved in the movement to save our planet. I am becoming increasingly aware that in countless ways, we are not being good stewards. As related in The Story of Stuff, we are literally using up our natural resources. We are engaging in numerous practices that are [...] Some of you may have seen the “Popcorn” YouTube video which shows teens popping popcorn by pointing their ringing cell phones toward unpopped kernals. It horrified me! I had been reading on www.Mercola.com how Dr. Mercola believes cell phones are dangerous. He suggests you do not sit with your cell phone [...] This month, two distinctly different items interested me enough to want to write about them. One was the “Bloom Box”, featured on CBS 60 Minutes and known as “a little power plant-in-a-box”. Its inventor, K.R. Sridhar, says a Bloom Box the size of a refrigerator in everyone’s back yard could do away with [...] During the month of December, every other news story seemed to be about the Copenhagen Climate Conference where heads of 193 industrialized and developing countries were hammering out an agreement to replace the Kyoto Protocol due to expire in 2012. Since the Conference has concluded, there has been very little “in the spotlight” [...] [Click image for Renewal Project website] Just a friendly reminder that tomorrow’s film from the 1st Tuesday Social Action Film Festival is RENEWAL, and it’s all about faith communities acting as stewards of the earth. From the official description Across the nation, people of faith are standing up for the environment. Evangelical Christians are fighting mountaintop removal, [...] |
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