Shabbat Shalom — Tending the Earth Together

Shabbath Shalom (Vol. 56, No. 2, 2009) dedicated an entire issues to creation care — “Tending the Earth Together.” Articles include: An Ecological Ideal (Editorial) Interviews with Lewis Regenstein, Jo Ann Davidson & Peter Sinclair Fun Facts on Ecology (Jo Ann Davidson) Hebrew Concept of the World (Jacques B. Doukhan) Ecology & Ecotherapy in Revelation [...]

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 [...]

Earth Hour

“This Saturday 28 March at 8:30pm you can vote Earth by switching off your lights for one hour–Earth Hour.” And check out this post over at Osocio.

Interview: Pastor Matt Vincent — Zipcar User

Pastor Matt Vincent and I were talking recently during a church board meeting in Chicago, and our conversation turned to Zipcar. Matt is a member, and he’d used Zipcar to get across Chicago for the meeting that night. Pastor Jose Bourget confirmed that public transportation between Matt’s place and the church is poor compared to [...]

The Story of Stuff

The Story of Stuff chronicles the journey of our stuff – our everyday purchases – from extraction, production, distribution, consumption, and finally, to disposal.  It answers some of the questions of how we got to the point we are now as a society. When I first saw this about a year ago, the biggest revelation [...]

We’re probably eco-nerds

My wife and I ate at a Thai restaurant last night in the neighborhood. We took our own reusable containers knowing that we’d have leftovers, and not wanting to take their styrofoam to-go containers. We are officially eco-nerds, and proud of it! Styrofoam is bad stuff. In 10,000 years if the world is still spinning, [...]

A Walk on the Wild Side(walk)

Worldwide, there were some 200 million automobiles in 1970; by 1990 the number had grown to 500 million. If current population and buying trends continue, it is estimated that by 2030 there could be more than 1 trillion cars rumbling down our highways and byways (Hypertextbook.com). While the auto industry provides thousands of jobs for [...]

Unintended Consequences – Corn & the Zone of Death

A few years ago, corn was the poster child for sustainable energy; now it makes headlines that sound like lousy movies. The basic argument said that filling our cars and trucks with corn-based ethanol would reduce our dependence on foreign oil by providing a domestic source of renewable energy. But new technologies often have unintended [...]

Adventist Business — Lakeland Mills Demonstrates Green Manufacturing

Robert Jensen, who co-owns Lakeland Mills with Calvin Hunt, sat down with AEA to talk about “green business.” Bob would rather not give interviews; he says it’s not about him. I respect that, but apparently not enough to let him get out of the interview. You can read more about Bob and the Something Else [...]

The 3 R’s – Recycle

This is the third in a three part series on the three R’s – Reducing, Reusing, and Recycling. Recycling has to do with extracting the useful materials from solid waste (garbage) and reusing the usable substances. The word recycling implies a cycle happening again. So before considering ways of recycling and the benefits of recycling, [...]