Adv Review: Interview with Sigve Tonstad

What Are We Really Doing to God’s Creatures? (Sandra Blackmer, Adv Review) Christians in North America who are concerned about responsible stewardship of the earth note that Adventists appear to be relative latecomers to the conversation. Awareness, though, is growing within the church of the escalating problem of bacteria resistance to antibiotics because of their [...]

Detroit

We don’t post “green news” very often (you can subscribe to Grist or others for that), but this one in Utne caught my attention: Detroit: Farming Paradise? (Danielle Maestretti, Utne, 28 Aug 2009)

Spectrum: Garden Evangelism

Jared Wright tells the story of organic gardening in a recent Spectrum blog post: Environmental stewardship. Interfaith dialogue. Community outreach. Organic gardening. Feeding the Hungry. Each of those undertakings is challening in its own right. But for Amy Lee and the Tulsa First SDA Church, a Hiram Edson-like vision in a field led to an [...]

The Future of Food (again)

I seem to keep talking about this film. Recently, I had the privilege of writing a review of The Future of Food for the Spectrum Magazine blog. It is a more in-depth consideration of the documentary than I had previously shared (Jeff’s Justice Journal, Nov ’07; here at Adventist Environmental Advocacy, Jan ’08). Have you [...]

The Time is Now — By Raintree

A long-time friend recently wrote a passionate, poetic and prophetic essay. Here is a portion of it republished with permission. Below the article is a link to her complete essay at myspace.com. Links have been added to key words without input from the author. We’re at a time in our history that we need to [...]

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 [...]