Environmental Film Festival

I am fortunate to have friends who like to share. Allow me to comment on six films and programs they have shared with me over the past few weeks. In November of 2007, a group of us watched An Inconvenient Truth for our community movie night. After that contentious evening, one person began collecting documentaries [...]

Adventist Review – Letter to the Editor

Because the following Letter to the Editor has gone unpublished, I thought I’d post it here. Elements of this letter have appeared in some of my other AEA musings. Dear Adventist Review Editor: I appreciated Roy Adam’s important discussion of the environment in his November 8, 2007 editorial, “Sweat the Small Stuff.” As Seventh-day Adventists, [...]

The Power of Community

Tonight some friends invited us over to watch The Power of Community, a short documentary about how Cuba responded to the collapse of the Soviet Union during the Special Period. Because Cuba had to re-invent itself after losing cheap oil imports, it is an example for the rest of the world of how to cope [...]

The Future of Food

Once a month my wife and I host Social Consciousness Movie Night where we watch documentaries and movies about human rights, health, the environment, politics, international affairs, and other issues. This past Saturday night the living room was full of people who’d come to watch The Future of Food, which points the spotlight on GE [...]

Meet Your Meat – watch this

Hot chicks get debeaked, turkeys hanging upside down from hooks get punched by poultry workers, and the rest of the story behind your Thanksgiving dinner. Fast fact: Americans today eat as much poultry in a day – A SINGLE DAY – as they did in an entire year in 1930.

Adventists Making a Difference – Dr. Stephen G. Dunbar

Dr. Stephen G. Dunbar is an educator, a conservationist, an environmental activist, and he’s a Seventh-day Adventist. Dr. Dunbar is a professor of Marine Biology at Loma Linda University’s School of Science and Technology. A particular area of interest for Dr. Dunbar is the conservation of endangered Hawsbill turtles in the Bay Islands off the [...]

SDA "Health Message" could save the world in ’08

The Seventh-day Adventist Church emerged from a period of religious reform. Adventist pioneers played a significant role in the reformations of the mid-to-late 1800′s. The 19th Century Adventist reform movements particularly stressed the connection between healthful diet and lifestyle and longevity and improved quality of life and even pointed out the connection between physical and [...]