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Attention Catholics	David Roberts	01 Oct 2008	Gristmill
1. The pope is infallible. 2. The pope just had solar panels installed on the Vatican roof. 3. You must have solar panels installed on your house or you will go to hell. QED
Topics: green living, solar voltaic power, Religion and Spirituality, Vatican City (all these topics)

The evolution of John McCain Why he picked Sarah Palin, carbon queen	Guest author	23 Sep 2008	Gristmill
This is a guest essay from Chip Ward, author and board member of the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance. It was originally published on TomDispatch and is republished here with Tom's kind permission. ----- Despite the media feeding frenzy, we still may be asking ourselves, 'Just who exactly is Sarah Palin?' Mixed in with the Davy-Crockett-meets-SuperMom vignettes -- all those moose-hunting, ice-fishing, snowmobiling, baby-juggling, and hockey-momming moments -- w ...
Topics: climate, education, presidential race 08, Sarah Palin, politics, Religion and Spirituality (all these topics)

Notable quotable Drilling for Jesus	David Roberts	12 Aug 2008	Gristmill
'[Pelosi] is committed to her global warming fanaticism to the point where she has said that she's just trying to save the planet. We all know that someone did that over 2,000 years ago, they saved the planet -- we didn't need Nancy Pelosi to do that.' -- Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.)
Topics: Congress, politics, quotables, religion and spirituality (all these topics)

Climate gets religion Richard Cizik and enviro religious leaders speak to Grist on climate leadership	Sara Barz	30 Jul 2008	Gristmill
Evangelicals have been absent without leave from the climate change discussion, failing to push the Republican Party to take the issue seriously, according to Richard Cizik, the vice president for governmental affairs at the National Association of Evangelicals. Evangelicals, Cizik said, are looking for 'prophetic leadership' to champion the climate cause. Surprisingly, he said that voice may not come from traditional conservative circles. 'The advantage that Bara ...
Topics: climate, interview, presidential race 08, religion and spirituality, video (all these topics)

Making Degrade Pope talks to youth about consumption, environmental degradation		17 Jul 2008	News
Posted at 11:32 AM on 17 Jul 2008 Pope Benedict XVI addressed over 150,000 people in Sydney, Australia, on Thursday as part of Whirled-Youth Day World Youth Day, a massive Catholic get-together meant to infuse the church with the energy of its youth. The pontiff commented on the beauty of the natural world as he saw it from aboard the papal plane. That Pope's-eye-view, he said, was a source of inspiration and wonder. ...
Topics: green living, news, politics, religion and spirituality (all these topics)

E.O. Wilson's mentors	David Roberts	09 Jul 2008	Gristmill
The great biologist E.O. Wilson discusses the kinds of people who inspired him: Check out Grist's interview with Wilson here.
Topics: interview, religion and spirituality, video (all these topics)

Pray harder!	David Roberts	06 Jul 2008	Gristmill
My petroleum god, why hast thou forsaken me?
Topics: energy, oil, religion and spirituality (all these topics)

Greening the evangelicals A new video about creation care	David Roberts	07 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Another sharp new piece from the American News Project:
Topics: Barbara Boxer, climate, elections, green living, religion and spirituality (all these topics)

The problem with 'We Can Solve It' An ad campaign on climate needs spokespeople who believe what they're saying	Ken Ward	04 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Idly watching TV the other day, my attention was caught by the arresting image of Al Sharpton and Pat Robertson sitting on a sofa. The artfully shot, 15-second spot is one of the first blitz of television ads from We Can Solve It, Al Gore's $300 million project to build up a public base of support for climate action. The two resemble each other, looking as sleek and plump as sea otters after a good feed. Sharpton and Robertson fence good naturedly, following t ...
Topics: climate, environmental movement, messaging, religion and spirituality (all these topics)

Who's protecting us from the gays? Conservative Christian group outraged that Congress is distracted by climate change	Kate Sheppard	03 Jun 2008	Gristmill
In today's daily action alert from the Family Research Council, President Tony Perkins bemoans the fact that the Senate is wasting time talking about climate change when the gays are still running around getting married willy-nilly: Now, fresh off a holiday weekend in which most families paid $4 a gallon to drive to neighborhood barbecues, American patience has worn thin. Imagine the frustration this week, as Congress returned to work -- not on judges, marriage, or ...
Topics: climate, insanity, legislation, Muckraker, politics, religion and spirituality, US Senate (all these topics)

Strangers in disguise Coming to terms with the reality of a world of refugees	Sharon Astyk	20 May 2008	Gristmill
There's definitely a survivalist streak building in the environmental movement. Mainstream newspapers are starting to run stories about survivalism. There are quite a few people who hear that the energy peak or climate change is coming and believe that building up their stocks of ammo and heading for the hills is the way to go. I recognize, even if I do not share, that impulse: It is the impulse to protect your own, the panic you feel when you realize that your socie ...
Topics: climate change impacts, climate equity, green living, religion and spirituality (all these topics)

Notable quotable Clean energy kills	David Roberts	19 May 2008	Gristmill
'You try to cap emissions and you kill more people than die if you don't cap emissions. We will have killed people. We care about this issue the same way why we care about abortion. It kills people.' -- Dr. E. Calvin Beisner, founder and national spokesman for the Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation
Topics: climate, energy, greenhouse-gas emissions, quotables, religion and spirituality (all these topics)

We Get It -- the joke, that is Corporate evangelical leaders cloak opposition to climate policy behind concern for poor	David Roberts	19 May 2008	Gristmill
Those of you following Grist's news feed (if you're not, you should) are aware that last week a group of conservative evangelicals launched the "We Get It!" campaign, arguing against action on global warming. We've written a great deal on Grist about the split in the evangelical leadership between those who recognize the danger of global warming and those who don't. The former includes lots of younger churchgoers who want to broaden the church's mandate b ...
Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, green living, religion and spirituality (all these topics)

Getting Their Message a Cross Conservative Christians launch skeptical climate campaign		16 May 2008	News
Posted at 5:21 PM on 16 May 2008 Conservative religious leaders have launched a "We Get It!" campaign that just goes to prove that saying something doesn't make it so. The campaign aims to gather a million signatures on a petition opposing climate-change action, with the argument that tackling global warming will hurt the world's poor. "Our stewardship of creation must be based on Biblical pri ...
Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, green living, news, religion and spirituality (all these topics)

Notable quotable On God and gas	David Roberts	30 Apr 2008	Gristmill
'God is the only one we can turn to at this point. Our leaders don't seem to be able to do anything about it.' -- Rocky Twyman, who is organizing 'pray-ins' at San Francisco gas stations, asking God to lower gas prices (via Streetsblog)
Topics: green living, oil, quotables, religion and spirituality (all these topics)

Earth Day preachin' By caring for God's creatures, we avert a second flood	Ken Ward	29 Apr 2008	Gristmill
This is a speech I delivered on Earth Day, April 20, 2008, at the Unitarian-Universalist First Church in Jamaica Plain, Mass. A software glitch prevented its publication on that day, but I believe it's still worth sharing. As Kurt Vonnegut once said, 'I wish I could bring light ... but there is no light. Everything is going to become unimaginably worse. If I lied to you about that, you would sense that I'd lied to you, and that would be another cause for gloom, and w ...
Topics: climate change mitigation, climate science, green living, religion and spirituality, renewable energy, severe weather (all these topics)

On His Pope-box Pope preaches environmental protection to United Nations		18 Apr 2008	News
Posted at 12:00 PM on 18 Apr 2008 After gallivanting around Washington, D.C., Pope Benedict XVI traveled to New York Friday to make an address to the United Nations General Assembly. In a speech largely focused on human rights, the pope also made note of the world's plentiful other problems, including "the protection of the environment, of resources, and of the climate." Our environmental, security, development, a ...
Topics: climate, news, religion and spirituality, United Nations (all these topics)

Candidates on climate change as moral issue Clinton & Obama to be queried on CNN tonight at 8pm EST on climate	Erik Hoffner	13 Apr 2008	Gristmill
Dem hopefuls Clinton and Obama will participate live tonight in The Compassion Forum, a discussion of "pressing moral issues that bridge ideological divides" including poverty, AIDS, Darfur, human rights, torture, and ... drumroll please ... climate change. The pair will field questions from CNN and Newsweek talking heads as well as from members of the faith community. The Rev Sally Bingham, of the very cool Interfaith Power and Light Campaign will be asking ...
Topics: Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, politics, presidential race 08, religion and spirituality, TV (all these topics)

Herald Ford Ford lays out how it will reduce fleet emissions		09 Apr 2008	News
Posted at 10:11 AM on 09 Apr 2008 Ford Motor Co. has laid out specific plans for reducing the greenhouse-gas emissions of its vehicle fleet at least 30 percent by 2020. The announcement comes in response to shareholder resolutions filed by members of the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility (representing about 300 religious investors) and the Investor Network on Climate Risk, organized by green-minded investment group Ceres. S ...
Topics: Big Auto, business, cars, climate, greenhouse-gas emissions, news, religion and spirituality (all these topics)

File under Epitaphs for Humanity	David Roberts	31 Mar 2008	Gristmill
Wow: Here's the back:
Topics: climate, fashion, green living, religion and spirituality, shopping (all these topics)

A Southern Baptist conversion to concern about climate change Young theologian discusses denomination's recent declaration	Kit Stolz	27 Mar 2008	Gristmill
Jonathan Merritt is a young theologian in Atlanta who broke into the national conversation this month by championing, within the conservative Southern Baptist faith, the declaration of a new set of principles regarding creation care and climate change. While noting continuing debate on some global warming questions, the declaration made a point of stating that we as a species can damage the planet and that such actions are wrong. The declaration stressed that 'we do not ...
Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, politics, presidential race 08, religion and spirituality (all these topics)

Passover as if the earth matters A call to action: Street Speakout Seders	Guest author	27 Mar 2008	Gristmill
The following is a guest essay by Rabbi Arthur Waskow, director of The Shalom Center of Philadelphia. For information on eco-policy issues and Street Speakout Seders, email the center. ----- Photo: iStockphoto The traditional Passover Haggadah teaches that in every generation, some Pharaoh will arise in destruction, and that in every generation, every human being -- not just every Jew -- must look upon herself or himself as if it is we -- not our ancestors ...
Topics: Big Auto, Big Oil, business, grassroots activism, green living, politics, religion and spirituality (all these topics)

Out of the mire man made of Earth, back to the father who gave us birth	David Roberts	23 Mar 2008	Gristmill
In the Christian tradition, Easter Sunday marks Jesus' ascent from death to eternal life.In Iraq, this Easter Sunday marked the death of the war's four thousandth U.S. solider.
Topics: holiday, religion and spirituality, Iraq (all these topics)

Se7en Times Two Pollution is on Vatican's updated list of mortal sins		10 Mar 2008	News
Posted at 12:50 PM on 10 Mar 2008 The Vatican has put a modern twist on the seven deadly sins, announcing a list of "social sins" -- including pollution and genetic manipulation. (And just when we had successfully rid ourselves of lust, gluttony, avarice, sloth, anger, envy, and pride.) The nature of sin itself has changed, says Monsignor Gianfranco Girotti, head of the Vatican body in charge of matters of conscience ...
Topics: air pollution, GMOs, news, religion and spirituality, Vatican City, water pollution (all these topics)

Holy Shift! Southern Baptist leaders urge action on climate change		10 Mar 2008	News
Posted at 6:02 AM on 10 Mar 2008 Photo: iStockphoto Over 40 prominent Southern Baptist leaders released a statement Monday urging action against climate change, asserting that "the time for timidity regarding God's creation is no more." The declaration is a notable departure from a statement released after the denomination's 2007 annual meeting that questioned human impacts on climate change. "We believe our curre ...
Topics: climate, green living, news, religion and spirituality (all these topics)

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