No Impact Experiment

If you choose to do this 1-week experiment, tell us all about it. And, yes, parts of the video are super cheesy. And check out the documentary trailer.

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 [...]

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 [...]

Serve God, Save the Planet

I had heard Dr. Matthew Sleeth preach. I’d read some of his interviews. I had scanned his website. I had researched the organization he now works for–A Rocha. But I hadn’t actually read his book, Serve God, Save the Planet, cover-to-cover until a few weeks ago. You can read all about the book, the man, [...]

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 [...]

Doing Good – Feeling Good

Life as a Christian would be much easier if some biblical teachings had been omitted from the Scriptures. Take for example that (in)famous saying of Jesus that in order to follow him, “you must deny yourself, take up your cross, and follow.” Teachings of that tenor complicate Christianity significantly. If I were to rate passages [...]