Category: environment
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Lizard’s Locomotion, Turbulence, Plant Motion, Snail’s Pace, Gray Whales, and More
Splashes (photo by John Williams) Whales, snails, plants, waves and other nature entities moving—see how people watch, draw, photograph, and write about the world in motion, in this spring issue “Movement” of Salish Magazine, which you can find at https://salishmagazine.org/issue-19/. Useful fact: Salish Magazine has a search function. To learn about Salish Sea flowers, trees,…
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Earth is our home
A pastor of mine often ended his prayers with “this is not our home,” telling us that we’re here briefly while in transit to heaven, so we should not get wrapped up in Earth. But the pastor is mistaken. We’ve been placed on this planet for seventy (more or less) years to glorify and love…
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What a peaceful listen/look/read I had this morning.
For the upcoming Earth Day, I was writing this post to encourage contributions to SEA-Media, which publishes the nonprofit online magazine Salish Magazine, so I went to the site to confirm links, and that’s when I clicked on https://salishmagazine.org/movement-imagery/, which is this quarter’s issue. At the start is a button that, when clicked, starts playing…
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An information campaign that’s transmitted into Russia is needed.
Yes, this is an environmental web page, but today I’m writing about the war in Ukraine and about the need to conduct an information campaign directed toward Russians—because a prolonged Ukraine War could cause us to lose the Climate War. Information Campaign Needed to Change Russian Minds A public relations campaign directed at the everyday…
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Youth Climate and Conservation Rally, Olympia, WA
On 13 January 2023 (Friday), from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.[MRM note: It’s about climate action, renewable energy, dams, salmon, and orcas.]⸺ source: WYORCA’s announcement at https://saveourwildsalmon.salsalabs.org/YouthRallyOlympiaJan13/index.html (accessed 7 Jan. 2023). Old and Young Folks at Olympia on 30 Jan. 2020
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Saving Life on Earth
Catrin Einhorn, “Nearly Every Country Signs On to a Sweeping Deal to Protect Nature,” The New York Times, 19 Dec. 2022, https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/19/climate/biodiversity-cop15-montreal-30×30.html? My comments: For nature and for us, this is huge: the COP 15, 2022 UN Biodiversity Conference agreement in Montreal. Can we stop the sixth extinction—the deterioration of the biosphere that we live…
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“This life’s hard, but it’s harder if you’re stupid.”
— Said by the gun-runner character Jackie Brown in the book by George Higgins, The Friends of Eddy Coyle (1970). For us to stay smart, our communities need a vigorous, healthy, local free press. See my synopsis of the 2021 year-end message from the publisher of The Seattle Times, about saving the country’s local free…
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God’s Wisdom in Nature
God, in his wisdom and through the millennia, has evolved and woven together a rich web of creatures and plants that sustains and propagates life and the variety of life that he obviously (because he made so much of it) loves. We’re blessed to be able to explore, understand, appreciate, and care for (when we…
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Trees—on Joyce Kilmer’s Day
Trees, trees, and more trees“Trees, trees and more trees,” was Golden Gate Park Supervisor John McLaren’s motto when he helped design the shaded, pleasant, walkable, and popular Lithia Park in Ashland, Oregon. Trees, we know (besides making our neighborhoods cooler and more pleasant), are part of the solution to the climate crisis. Only God can…
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God’s nature advocacy
God’s nature advocacy: The application by people of faith of their talents toward Earth stewardship. Just as we serve God in discipleship, caring for the poor and afflicted, pastoring, singing, cooking for the congregation, volunteering in church projects, supporting youth, and the myriad other ways that God has made possible for us to express his…
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