Workplace Witness – Adventists Making a Difference

So, speaking of Bike-to-Work Week, here’s an Adventist who not only chose to take part this week, but who also has made plans to make this a permanent habit. Jodi Teale is a registered nurse who works in a GI lab in Southern California. Jodi earned a degree in nursing from Southwestern Adventist University, and [...]

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 [...]

Brawn and Brain combine to create clean energy

A team of 10 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) cyclists used bicycles to power a supercomputer conducting research on nuclear fusion Tuesday in order to complete the largest human-powered computation in history. Riding bicycles attached to electrical generators, the students not only saved energy by using human power to run the SiCortex SC648 supercomputer, they [...]

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, [...]

A Conservationist Lifestyle

I admire the concerted efforts of groups of people to protect natural resources. Conservationists provide service to all of us that can’t be overestimated in value. Last Sabbath, I had a once-in-a-lifetime experience of visiting what is perhaps Thailand’s most beautiful national park. I’m finishing up my two years of living in Thailand, preparing to [...]

How Many Aussies does it take to change all the light bulbs?

A: Just one. It seems like an obvious solution to the on-going issue of energy efficiency. And yet as obvious as it seems, Australia is the first economic powerhouse to ban incandescent light bulbs. It was Australian Prime Minister John Howard’s bright idea that put into effect a law said to cut Australia’s carbon emissions [...]

Top Ten Good-News Tidbits

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 [...]

Adventists making a difference – Meet my sister

Lauren Gregory is two years my junior, and was born in Rwanda, Africa. She spent her collegiate years between Avondale college in Australia (where she met her husband), and Canadian Union College where the average yearly temparature remains seemingly unaffected by global warming with snow in July. Lauren was married last year at Christmastime, and [...]