Energy crisis. There’s a phrase that’s being thrown around a lot in the media these days. You’ve heard it, probably said it. Everyone is talking. About the high cost of gas. About the rising cost of crude. About the need to drill or the need to prevent drilling. About oil and coal and alternatives. Independence [...]
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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 [...]
Filed under: Stewardship | Tagged: clean energy, climate change, Creation Care, film, global warming, green energy, peak oil, practices, renewable energy, Stewardship | 5 Comments »
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 [...]
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In a world where cynicism and discouragement have a way of speaking louder than words at times, it’s essential to tune in to the good news (without turning a deaf ear to the very real problems around us). And as is the case everywhere where despair has a voice, there is also abundant good news [...]
Filed under: good news | Tagged: action, green energy, renewable energy, solutions | 1 Comment »
