The fear I hear most often expressed about climate change is that of losing hope. Indeed, so much confronts us with the enormity, the frightening prospects of failure, frustration of living in a world subject to politicians and industries who ignore, deny, and play tricks to upend climate efforts. The recent hype against induction cooking […]
Webinar is this Tuesday, January 24, 2023, 7:30 pm Eastern Tim! Sign up here. And, here are some resources I’ve assembled for helping everyone implement climate action: “A Brief but Spectacular Take on Working Together for Climate Action,” PBS News Hour with Bill McKibben. Patricia K. Tull, “A Faithful Third Act,” Presbyterian Outlook, January […]
This article, A Faithful Third Act, just appeared in the Presbyterian Outlook. Many thanks to Dan Terpstra for urging me to write it, and to Outlook editor Teri Ott for asking me not only to write it but to expand it. The article anticipates a webinar called Climate Change and Older Adults, that I will be doing […]
I’ve had several requests to view the presentations I gave last spring about our net-zero house in Henryville, so I’m gathering access to all three recordings here. The first was with Tri-State Creation Care in Evansville, Indiana last January. It features our builder Nick Romeo in the Q&A portion. They sent me a copy of […]
Yesterday my friend the Rev. Dr. Shelley Wiley, who recently came with her spouse Jon Vanderglas to visit and is preparing to lead a congregational Bible study using Inhabiting Eden, sent me a Facebook post shared by her cousin in Georgia about electric vehicles. She wondered how to respond. As the happy owner of a […]
I’m out in Pullman, Washington, visiting my daughter Claire’s family for the first time in nearly two years. I hadn’t seen their three-year-old son Neil in all that time, so there is a lot of catching up to do. I am grateful for the speedy development of vaccinations that made this visit possible. We had […]
Podcasts keep my mind learning while my hands work in the greenhouse and gardens. Three have meant a lot to me lately, as well as a book that is beautifully assembled and blazingly hopeful. First the podcasts. Living on Earth has been around for awhile. It’s a weekly go-to source for coverage of climate change, […]
Given everything else that 2020 brought, Don and I are grateful to have moved into our zero-energy home before Covid grounded everyone. When everything shut down last March, my son and daughter-in-law, school principals in Miami, packed their four-year-old daughter Soraya in the car and drove to Indiana to stay with us and work […]
OK, apologies again for not keeping this blog up to date, and again, I’ll try to do better. You’d think that Covid life would help, but I’ve actually been pretty busy. By way of remorse, I’ll mention three events I’m involved in: First, tomorrow evening, January 25, at 7:30 Eastern/6:30 Central, I’m giving a Zoom […]
This year it was my privilege to coordinate and recruit a wonderful group of talented writers to assemble the Presbyterians for Earth Care Lenten devotion for 2020. The theme is based on Genesis 1:29-31, “God Provides Enough For All.” The devotions run from Ash Wednesday to Easter Sunday. Many thanks to David Shinn, Jeffrey Geary, […]