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Religion and biology Does biology work against religious sentiment?	Jason D Scorse	06 Nov 2006	Gristmill
Here's an excellent piece by John Derbyshire at National Review explaining his (lack of) religious views. What does it have to do with environmentalism? Well, check out this part: I can report that the Creationists are absolutely correct to hate and fear modern biology. Learning this stuff works against your faith. To take a single point at random: The idea that we are made in God's image implies we are a finished product. We are not, though. It is now indis ...
Topics: environmental movement, religion and spirituality, scientific research (all these topics)

Religion and environmentalism: A skeptic's view Energy is better spent elsewhere	Jason D Scorse	16 Oct 2006	Gristmill
(Warning: If speaking frankly about religion's dark side upsets you, please read no further.) There has been a lot of discussion on this site recently about the potential positive role religion (specifically Christianity) can have in solving our environmental problems. Call me skeptical. Before I explain, it's important to lay out a few things, since as soon as someone criticizes of religion it opens them up to all sorts of allegations. First off, I fully ...
Topics: environmental movement, green living, religion and spirituality (all these topics)

Malcolm Gladwell on social change Mucho interesting	David Roberts	11 Oct 2006	Gristmill
Yesterday I attended a luncheon put on by Seattle's excellent Plymouth Housing Group, an innovative non-profit working to end homelessness in the city. Malcolm Gladwell -- staff writer at The New Yorker, author of Tipping Point and Blink, blogger, and public intellectual extraordinaire -- was the keynote speaker. (He was invited in large part thanks to his influential piece in the New Yorker arguing that problems like homelessness are "easier to solve than to man ...
Topics: environmental movement (all these topics)

Born Again, Again Will evangelicals help save the earth?	Bill McKibben	05 Oct 2006	Main Dish
Copyright 2006 by Bill McKibben. First published in OnEarth, a publication of the Natural Resources Defense Council. Reprinted by permission. First came the mighty winds, blowing across the Gulf with unprecedented fury, leveling cities and towns, washing away the houses built on sand. Toss in record flooding across the Northeast, and one of the warmest winters humans have known on this continent, and a prolonge ...
Topics: Bill McKibben, environmental movement, God and the Environment, politics, religion and spirituality (all these topics)

Sometimes you just have to let go of a word ... Rethinking 'overpopulation'	biodiversivist	04 Oct 2006	Gristmill
'Overpopulation' is one of them. 'Gay' is another. You can insist on calling yourself gay out of a stubborn refusal to let language evolve, but unless you are gay, you will be giving a lot of people the wrong impression. The word 'overpopulation' (which remains vague and poorly defined) has fallen out of favor and is rarely used in polite company. We can thank, at least in part, those who called for an increase in death rates and draconian restrictions on childbirth ...
Topics: environmental movement, messaging, population (all these topics)

So, environmentalists support whaling? If environmentalism doesn't include animal welfare, why not?	Jason D Scorse	13 Sep 2006	Gristmill
Over the past couple of weeks, I have tried to make what is essentially a straightforward case that environmentalism at its core is about respecting life and that separating this from our behavior towards individual living beings doesn't make much sense. Since many environmentalists reject this notion and insist that environmentalism only includes preserving biodiversity and promoting resource sustainability, this suggests that one of the defining elements of environm ...
Topics: animal welfare, environmental movement (all these topics)

Environmentalism and animal rights No environmentalism is complete without consideration of animal welfare	Jason D Scorse	07 Sep 2006	Gristmill
Under a previous post on whaling, a commenter pointed out the hypocrisy of those in the environmental movement who oppose whaling while tacitly supporting other forms of animal slaughter no less morally offensive. The commenter made the point that as long as an animal species is being managed sustainably, there is nothing inherently wrong with using that animal, no matter how sentient, in whatever ways we desire. This contention gets at a key weakness in the envir ...
Topics: animal welfare, biodiversity, environmental movement (all these topics)

Further clarifications on property rights and free markets Jason D. Scorse tries to clear up the confusion	Jason D Scorse	28 Aug 2006	Gristmill
There is a lot of confusion over the meaning of free markets and property rights, for a variety of reasons. The following are some additional clarifications for all interested environmentalists (please see earlier posts for some background): 1. When economists speak of property rights, they are essentially speaking of ownership rights. Areas of the world where there are no clearly defined ownership rights are typically referred to as 'open access' resources -- any ...
Topics: environmental movement (all these topics)

The "Four E's" of environmental improvement	Jason D Scorse	17 Jul 2006	Gristmill
I recently attended a conference on common property resources where the majority of participants were skeptical, if not downright antagonistic, to free market principles. During one lengthy exchange in which I challenged the presenters to provide clear evidence that common property ownership led to superior environmental and social outcomes than private ownership, the moderator turned to me and asked what recommendations I, as an economist, had for improving the envi ...
Topics: environmental movement (all these topics)

An emerging environmental majority?	David Roberts	18 Apr 2006	Gristmill
Christina Larson -- who occasionally contributes to this very blog -- has an important piece in Washington Monthly called "The Emerging Environmental Majority." While it's a great article and an important contribution to the discussion about where environmentalism's heading, I think a couple of crucial points are, at the very least, tenuous, and deserve further defense or elucidation. Larson tells, in condensed form, the history of the environmental movem ...
Topics: environmental movement (all these topics)

Caste From the Past Environmentalism's elitist tinge has roots in the movement's history	Matthew Klingle, Joseph E. Taylor III	08 Mar 2006	Soapbox
By Matthew Klingle and Joseph E. Taylor III 08 Mar 2006 Pretty, yes, but what about the people? Photo: National Park Service. North Americans love their heroes, and environmentalists are no exception. The hall of fame includes some of the biggest hitters from our nation's past: John Muir, David McTaggart, Marjory Stoneman Douglas, Paul Watson, David Brower, Rachel Carson, and Edward Abbey, to name just a few ...
Topics: environmental justice, environmental movement, politics, Poverty and the Environment (all these topics)

Mapled Crusaders Community forests help revitalize New England towns	Wayne Curtis	23 Feb 2006	Main Dish
Beyond a set of granite gates on a hillside in Rumford, Maine, a lost city sits amid silver maples and oaks, just across the river from a sprawling paper mill. It's called Strathglass Park, and it's a vestige of an experiment in corporate benevolence. Designed in 1904 by noted architect Cass Gilbert, who later designed the Woolworth Building in Manhattan and the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, t ...
Topics: environmental justice, environmental movement, local politics, New England, placemaking, Poverty and the Environment, wilderness (all these topics)

What a green wants: An index-card manifesto (first draft) A positive environmental program that can (almost) fit on an index card	David Roberts	17 Feb 2006	Gristmill
Without further ado, here's the first draft of my index-card manifesto. It turned out to be two index-card manifestos, with five points each: one for stuff I consider immediately urgent, and a second for what I consider longer-term goals. Feedback is welcome -- nay, requested. (I'll discuss the whole project more in a subsequent post.) WHAT A GREEN WANTS: IMMEDIATE PRIORITIES Energy efficiency: Proven techniques can get the same amount of work with 50% of the oil. ...
Topics: agriculture, cars, electricity grid, energy, environmental movement, green living, messaging, placemaking, renewable energy, urban planning (all these topics)

Return of the Native Movement Evon Peter, director of Native Movement, answers readers' questions		10 Feb 2006	InterActivist
Evon Peter, director of Native Movement. I've heard that some Indigenous peoples in Alaska support drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, while some sturdily oppose it. How do you feel about the proposal to drill? And what do you think the division is doing to the communities there?�� -- Joshua Moro, Laramie, Wyo. There is no simple answer to this question. The history of unju ...
Topics: environmental justice, environmental movement, heroes, InterActivist, interview, Poverty and the Environment (all these topics)

Getting Evon Evon Peter, director of Native Movement, answers Grist's questions		06 Feb 2006	InterActivist
Evon Peter. What work do you do? I am the executive director of Native Movement. What does your organization do? Native Movement is a collective of around 15 organizers who work on a myriad of projects focusing on youth leadership development, sustainability, protection of sacred sites, and social, political, economic, and environmental justice. We work mostly with Indigenous peoples in the Southwest and ...
Topics: environmental justice, environmental movement, heroes, InterActivist, interview, Poverty and the Environment (all these topics)

Luna and Electric Dreams Two new eco-movies on the way from Participant Productions	Chris Schults	22 Jan 2006	Gristmill
Speaking of Participant Productions, I just discovered they have two more environmentally themed films in development: 1) Luna Luna is based on the true story of Julia Butterfly Hill, a drifter turned environmentalist who galvanized the movement in the early 90's to save the redwood trees in Northern California from deforestation.Julia Hill was a young woman without direction or purpose whose travels brought her to Northern California and the quiet majesty of the ...
Topics: cars, electric vehicles, environmental movement, movies (all these topics)

Right-wing evangelicals + wise use = trouble Wise-use movement gaining political strength from fundamentalist Christians	Lisa Hymas	04 Nov 2005	Gristmill
Or so argues a new book by Stephenie Hendricks -- Divine Destruction: Wise Use, Dominion Theology, and the Making of American Environmental Policy, excerpted in the latest Seattle Weekly. Nut 'graph from the excerpt: [T]he widespread acceptance of anti-environmental thinking in the guise of Wise Use is made more troubling in that there are increasingly close ties between those who subscribe to the ideas of Wise Use and members of fundamentalist Christian churches and or ...
Topics: environmental movement, green living, religion and spirituality (all these topics)

Are the godly crazy? Dateline NBC explores that question	Chris Schults	27 Oct 2005	Gristmill
Here at Grist, we like to keep you on your toes. On the one hand, we tell you that the Christian Right is swaying politicians and threatening the environment. On the other, we show that some of the evangelical leadership is urging its members to adopt eco-friendly living habits and exhorting the government to lighten America's environmental footprint. For those of you who don't have anything better to do on a Friday night, you have an opportunity for a different persp ...
Topics: environmental movement, Religion and Spirituality, TV (all these topics)

Can 30 million evangelicals be a bad thing?	Chris Schults	05 Oct 2005	Gristmill
'Environmentalism and the religious worldview' is in the top ten Gristmill posts ranked by the number of comments. Apparently combining these two issues strikes a chord, or at least gets you all riled up. So I'm wondering what y'all think of the Grist interview with Richard Cizik. Regardless of your views on religion, Richard can reach out to over 30 million people -- and he wants them to fight global warming. And if if that isn't enough scripture for you, the Seattl ...
Topics: climate, environmental movement, Religion and Spirituality (all these topics)

Interview with Alex Steffen, part three On framing environmentalism	David Roberts	01 Sep 2005	Gristmill
This is part three of a three-part interview. You can read part one here and part two here. In this section, Alex and I discuss the way environmentalism has been framed and what greens can do to change those frames.DR: I've just been reading Michael Crichton's new book. It's an attack on global warming science and what he calls global warming hysteria, but also, particularly in the latter parts of the book, an attack on what he calls environmentalists' ge ...
Topics: environmental movement, interview (all these topics)

The death of enviroliberalism (part 2) Environmentalism and liberalism shouldn't be joined at the hip.	Jeremy Carl	13 Jun 2005	Gristmill
A couple of quick prefatory remarks -- several readers interpreted my earlier posting as an attack on liberalism. That was not my intent at all: While I am not a liberal, as the saying goes, 'Some/most of my best friends are liberals.' The only goal of the previous posting, and the one that follows, is to suggest the harm that comes from automatically coupling liberalism with environmentalism. In my previous post, I discussed our movement's international problems. But ...
Topics: endangered species, energy, environmental movement, Kyoto Protocol, messaging, politics (all these topics)

Reclaim the Future A new think tank tries to link up justice, poverty, and green issues.	David Roberts	05 Jun 2005	Gristmill
There's been a lot of talk since ... well, forever, but especially since the paper that shall go unnamed, about greens forming strategic alliances with other progressive groups. One such proposed alliance is between big green groups and groups working to fight racism and poverty. Most of this, sad to say, is just talk, but Joel Makower brings word of Reclaim the Future, a new think tank from Van Jones' Ella Baker Center that's trying to make it happen. Reclaim the ...
Topics: environmental movement, green jobs, Van Jones (all these topics)

Ain't I an Environmentalist? An environmental-justice advocate insists he's not dead yet	Ludovic Blain	31 May 2005	Soapbox
Ludovic Blain. "The Death of Environmentalism" should be called "The Death of Elite, White, American Environmentalism." A critique of the environmental movement that draws on neither the perspectives nor achievements of the environmental-justice (EJ) movement is, at very best, incomplete. That the DOE interviews and recommendations only focused on white, Ameri ...
Topics: Death of Environmentalism, environmental justice, environmental movement, politics (all these topics)

Why I Am Not an Environmentalist The environmental movement won't thrive until it addresses economic development in low-income communities	Orson Aguilar	31 May 2005	Soapbox
Growing up in east Los Angeles as the son of Central American immigrants, the everyday challenges faced by the people in my community seemed far removed from the American dream: the lack of good housing and jobs, failing schools, scraping together money for groceries, and all-too-common police brutality. If you had asked us, we ...
Topics: economy, environmental justice, environmental movement (all these topics)

Standing on Whose Shoulders? Why race and class matter to the environmental movement	Michel Gelobter, et al	27 May 2005	Soapbox
This piece is excerpted from the essay "The Soul of Environmentalism: Rediscovering Transformational Politics in the 21st Century." The full essay can be found here. Elvis was a hero to most, but he never meant shit to me ... -- Public Enemy, 1989 Activists of color may not want to stand on John Muir's shoulders. Environmentalism in the United States has always b ...
Topics: Death of Environmentalism, environmental justice, environmental movement, politics (all these topics)

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