Much as we love the house with its energy superpowers, it’s still just base camp for what we’re really doing: enjoying, learning from, and prospering the little corner of earth we live in. Every day brings new insight—about wildlife, about tools, about how things grow. And just for the record, for people who keep asking […]
Our new home in Henryville, Indiana was completed at the end of July, and we moved in right away. So far, we’ve experienced drought and extreme heat; torrential rain; multiple visitors including our four grandchildren; sunny fall days; nights of stargazing; planting asparagus crowns, garlic, and shallots in our newly made Hugelkultur mounds and finding volunteer acorn […]
This coming week I am traveling to Washington D.C. to preach and lead workshops in three churches and at the National Capital Presbytery meeting on Tuesday. One of the workshops is a practical guide to energy conservation in homes and congregational buildings. I want to make workshop materials available for attendees, but rather than xerox […]
Last Wednesday I was in the little town of Monmouth in western Illinois speaking to a group of faculty and students about food and faith. Monmouth College has a community garden which supplies produce to their food service as well as to the local farmer’s market. They also have a small farm to experiment with […]
Here is a short piece I wrote for Presbyterians for Earth Care last year. They do such good work, I’m glad to get to work with them. I will post some other things soon. Right now, looking forward to visiting Monmouth College in Illinois to lecture on February 20 and Campbellsville College in Kentucky on February 26, preaching […]
Surprisingly, people are still contacting me through this poor blog, neglected now for a year and a half. I’m heartened every time I hear that another church is using Inhabiting Eden for a group study. Obviously, though, I owe an explanation. Two years ago, I was diagnosed with breast cancer. Not unusual—1/3 of all […]
A few months ago at the public library in Evansville, Indiana, 125 people gathered for a program about building backyard bird habitats, complete with hundreds of photos of warblers and other songbirds, all taken in the presenter’s own yard. She emphasized the need for local and migratory birds to find water, food, and shelter at […]
Last week my spouse Don and I traveled to Washington D.C. with a couple dozen others to petition our U.S. senators and reps to uphold the Clean Air Act. I was astounded to hear it wasn’t the Clean Power Plan, the Green Climate Fund, or the Downtown Louisville– from the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet website Paris […]
A majority of citizens in all 50 states supports continued U.S. participation in the 2015 Paris climate accord,as this Yale research on American opinion shows. About half of Trump supporters do as well. But not the White House. Last Thursday afternoon President Trump announced thathe will begin the process of withdrawing the U.S.from the historic […]
A great joy of driving through the midwest is seeing the growth of wind farms. Despite its poor record on climate preparedness, Indiana is ranked 12th in the nation in wind power. Fowler Ridge in northwest Indiana, for instance, with its 600 MW capacity, is one of the largest in the U.S., while the 500 […]