ANN: Jan Paulsen

Adventist leaders comment on Copenhagen climate summit: Caring for environment is “Christian issue,” president says (Victor Hulbert, ANN, 14 Dec. 2009) Should Christians be concerned about caring for the environment? The president of the Seventh-day Adventist world church, Jan Paulsen, says “yes,” in a video released on YouTube, coinciding with the Copenhagen Summit.

Review: Who Killed the Electric Car?

I recently reviewed Who Killed the Electric Car? for Spectrum Magazine. North Americans love murder-mysteries. Evidence Exhibit 1: an episode of CSI airs almost every night of the week. Whodunit? What was the motive? Will the perpetrator be apprehended? Was there a cover-up or conspiracy? And most importantly, was it Colonel Mustard in the kitchen [...]

The Climate Project

Sara Goodwin writes for us today about a recent presentation at Andrews University. She is a freshman biology major at AU, thinking of being an ecologist “when she grows up.” In her free time, she enjoys reading, music, and enjoying the great outdoors. I have added links to her original report. Thanks for sharing, Sara. [...]

Evangelicals for Social Action

Lowell “Rusty” Pritchard has written some great articles at Evangelicals for Social Action. Check out these three: Stuck in the Middle — Balanced thoughts on climate change. Remember the Sabbath to Save the Planet — Frequent AEA readers will recognize some of this content. Fear Not — Self explanatory.

Locavore

Locavore (n): “Someone who eats food grown or produced locally” (wikipedia). [More: Eat Local Challenge, Suite 101] I am a hypocritical advocate for eating locally grown food. Here are 10 benefits I posted on another blog. And we’re still waiting for a volunteer to read Animal, Vegetable, Miracle (Kingsolver) and review it here. Today I [...]

Adventist Leaders on Environment, Global Warming

Over at the Spectrum blog, discussion has warmed up over the environment and climate change (once again). Only this time, the president of the Seventh-day Adventist world church, Jan Paulsen, is part of the conversation. Paulsen recently made his clearest statement to date on environmental stewardship in the Adventist World. His article, “Freedom to Care” [...]

Bush on Global Warming: It’s real

In an interview (May 13, 2008) with Politico’s chief political correspondent, Michael Allen, President George W. Bush (again) conceded publicly that global warming is real and that has been clearly defined as a problem. At the same time, the President sought to frame the issue in terms of its economical repercussions, saying that “you can’t [...]

Global Warming Reader

(Updated 3/14/08) These three articles that argue against global warming were shared with me recently. Temperature Monitors Report Widescale Global Cooling (Michael Asher, DailyTech.com, 26 Feb, 2008) Forget global warming: Welcome to the new Ice Age (Lorne Gunter, National Post, 25 Feb 2008) NOAA: Coolest Winter Since 2001 for U.S., Globe (NOAA, 13 Mar 2008) [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]