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Is God Green?
An exclusive preview of Bill Moyers' PBS special (RealPlayer, low bandwidth) |
David Roberts |
05 Oct 2006 |
Main Dish |
| The RealPlayer is required. Get it now. (There is a completely free version. Make sure to click on the hard-to-find "FREE RealPlayer" link.) Watch the high-bandwidth version here. Return to the Moyers interview. |
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| Topics: climate change adaptation, God and the Environment, politics, religion and spirituality (all these topics) |
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Is God Green?
An exclusive preview of Bill Moyers' PBS special (Windows, low bandwidth) |
David Roberts |
05 Oct 2006 |
Main Dish |
| The Windows Media Player is required. Get it now. Watch the high-bandwidth version here. Return to the Moyers interview. |
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| Topics: climate change adaptation, God and the Environment, politics, religion and spirituality (all these topics) |
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Is God Green?
An exclusive preview of Bill Moyers' PBS special (Windows, high bandwidth) |
David Roberts |
05 Oct 2006 |
Main Dish |
| The Windows Media Player is required. Get it now. Watch the low-bandwidth version here. Return to the Moyers interview. |
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| Topics: climate change adaptation, God and the Environment, politics, religion and spirituality (all these topics) |
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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 ... |
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| Topics: Bill McKibben, environmental movement, God and the Environment, politics, religion and spirituality (all these topics) |
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The Gospel of J. Matthew
An interview with J. Matthew Sleeth, evangelical environmentalist and author |
David Roberts |
05 Oct 2006 |
Main Dish |
| In 2000, a wealthy hospital chief of staff and evangelical Christian named J. Matthew Sleeth looked around at the life he'd built -- suburban neighborhood, huge house, two cars, lots and lots of stuff -- and decided it failed to properly honor God. J. Matthew Sleeth: listen to the heart. In what he describes as a religious awakening, he, his wife, and their two teena ... |
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| Topics: consumerism, energy efficiency, God and the Environment, green living, health, interview, religion and spirituality (all these topics) |
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God & the Environment
A Grist special series |
David Roberts |
05 Oct 2006 |
Main Dish |
| Environmentalists and their politically progressive allies have long dismissed conservative evangelical Christians as repressive moralists and industry apologists. The suspicion and hostility are mutual: evangelicals see environmentalists as godless, anti-human pagans and socialists. Not exactly a match made in heaven. But relations are slowly thawing -- in part thanks to, well, thawing. As glaciers and ice shelv ... |
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| Topics: God and the Environment, religion and spirituality (all these topics) |
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Go and Cinema More
New climate-change documentary focuses on people of faith |
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12 Sep 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| Go and Cinema More New climate-change documentary focuses on people of faith If An Inconvenient Truth didn't exactly bring evangelicals to the multiplex in droves, The Great Warming just may. Religious leaders hope the documentary, to be screened in September and distributed in October along with voter guides and eco-sermons, will mobilize religious groups around climate change -- just in time for mi ... |
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| Topics: climate, green living, news, religion and spirituality (all these topics) |
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Will Evolution Be Next?
Heat waves linked to climate change; even Pat Robertson is convinced |
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04 Aug 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| Will Evolution Be Next? Heat waves linked to climate change; even Pat Robertson is convinced Experts agree: damn, it's hot! And you might as well get used to it. At the rate global temperatures are rising, blistering heat waves like the ones that have recently baked parts of the U.S. and Europe will become more frequent and severe, according to climate researchers. Of course, no individual weather event can definit ... |
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| Topics: climate, news, religion and spirituality (all these topics) |
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An interview with Rabbi Michael Lerner
On spiritual environmentalism |
David Roberts |
22 Mar 2006 |
Gristmill |
| A few weeks ago, I sat down for a long chat with Rabbi Michael Lerner. The first half -- most directly related to environmental issues -- is here. The second half, wherein in we discuss general spiritual and theological issues, is below. In his new book The Left Hand of God (you can read an excerpt here), Lerner says the religious right offers what he calls the right hand of God: a stern authoritarian father, who punishes sin, demands self-reliance, and inspires ... |
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| Topics: interview, religion and spirituality (all these topics) |
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What the Left Hand's Doing
Rabbi Michael Lerner calls on environmentalists to develop a spiritual vision |
David Roberts |
22 Mar 2006 |
Main Dish |
| As we strolled through downtown Seattle in search of coffee, Rabbi Michael Lerner casually pointed over my shoulder and said, "That's where I was in jail." Rabbi Michael Lerner. Photo: Mark Werlin. He was referring to his membership in the Seattle Seven, a group of Vietnam War protesters whose 1970 arrest and trial sparked a legendary media circus. It wa ... |
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| Topics: consumerism, God and the Environment, green living, interview, religion and spirituality (all these topics) |
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Jesus ready to bolt?
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David Roberts |
06 Mar 2006 |
Gristmill |
| Amy Sullivan has a piece in Washington Monthly called "When Would Jesus Bolt?" It's about growing strain between the evangelical Christian community and the Republican Party for which it has so long been a loyal foot soldier. There's lots of juicy stuff in the piece, but Gristies will be particularly intrigued to hear some of the backstory surrounding last month's climate declaration by evangelicals: In early January, I talked to Cizik about his efforts ... |
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| Topics: religion and spirituality (all these topics) |
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Walk This Way
A virtual walking tour of Columbia, Miss., with Charlotte Keys of Jesus People Against Pollution |
Mary Wiltenburg |
13 Feb 2006 |
Main Dish |
| Click image to take the tour. Photo by Mary Wiltenburg. In 1977, a factory in Columbia, Miss., that had been manufacturing Agent Orange was rocked by an explosion. The owner, Reichhold Chemical Inc., shuttered the facility and abandoned or buried thousands of barrels of toxic waste near the water supply of the pr ... |
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| Topics: environmental justice, Mississippi, Poverty and the Environment, religion and spirituality, waste, water pollution (all these topics) |
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The Only Boy Who Could Ever Teach Me
Evangelical leaders launch new campaign to fight global warming |
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08 Feb 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| The Only Boy Who Could Ever Teach Me Evangelical leaders launch new campaign to fight global warming Eighty-six evangelical Christian leaders have joined together to launch an "Evangelical Climate Initiative" and call for federal legislation to reduce carbon dioxide emissions via a cap-and-trade market system. This move comes after 22 evangelical leaders -- including Bush-friendly political heavyweights J ... |
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| Topics: climate, news, religion and spirituality (all these topics) |
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Bullied Pulpit
Evangelical association decides not to fight global warming after all |
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02 Feb 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| Bullied Pulpit Evangelical association decides not to fight global warming after all You know all the fuss this past year over the evangelical Christian community becoming a powerful partner in the fight against climate change? Well, never mind. The 30-million-member National Association of Evangelicals had been expected to issue a public statement on the dangers of global warming, marking a potentially fatal rift ... |
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| Topics: climate, news, religion and spirituality (all these topics) |
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Eilon Encounters
Eilon Schwartz, founder of The Heschel Center, answers readers' questions |
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16 Dec 2005 |
InterActivist |
| Eilon Schwartz, founder of The Heschel Center. How does the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians affect the work of environmentalists? -- Noah Efron, Tel Aviv, Israel As you must know, coming from the region, the "conflict" has traditionally dwarfed all other agendas. Interestingly, the environment has always been a central piece in efforts to build a dialogue and reconciliat ... |
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| Topics: environmental non-government organizations, InterActivist, interview, Israel, religion and spirituality (all these topics) |
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Heschel Effects
Eilon Schwartz, founder of The Heschel Center, answers Grist's questions |
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12 Dec 2005 |
InterActivist |
| Eilon Schwartz. What work do you do? I'm the founder and executive director of The Heschel Center, an environmental NGO in Israel. I am also an academic, teaching at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. What does your organization do? Only in the last decade has environmentalism gotten on the map in Israel. For years, "The Situation" -- that is, the relationship between Israel and the Pa ... |
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| Topics: environmental non-government organizations, InterActivist, interview, Israel, religion and spirituality (all these topics) |
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A blow to creationism
Roman Catholic church in the UK teaches that Bible can be factually inaccurate |
Sarah K. Burkhalter |
08 Nov 2005 |
Gristmill |
| Here's an interesting development, from the U.K. Times Online: The hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church [in England, Scotland, and Wales] has published a teaching document instructing the faithful that some parts of the Bible are not actually true. This includes the first 11 chapters of Genesis, wherein the earth and humankind are created in six days. It's a rebuttal to strict creationism. Sometimes I have a sneaking suspicion that this is still news to some ... |
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| Topics: religion and spirituality (all these topics) |
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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 ... |
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| Topics: environmental movement, green living, religion and spirituality (all these topics) |
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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 ... |
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| Topics: environmental movement, Religion and Spirituality, TV (all these topics) |
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Can 30 million evangelicals be a bad thing?
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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 ... |
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| Topics: climate, environmental movement, Religion and Spirituality (all these topics) |
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Cizik Matters
An interview with green evangelical leader Richard Cizik |
Amanda Griscom Little |
05 Oct 2005 |
Main Dish |
| Richard Cizik. Photo: National Association of Evangelicals. Polluters will have to answer to God, not just government, according to Richard Cizik. Vice president of governmental affairs for the National Association of Evangelicals, Cizik is a pro-Bush Bible-brandishing reverend zealously opposed to abortion, gay marriage, and embryonic stem-cell research. He is also on a mission to convert ... |
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| Topics: climate, God and the Environment, heroes, interview, politics, religion and spirituality (all these topics) |
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The Chris Science Monitor
An interview with Chris Mooney, author of The Republican War on Science |
David Roberts |
27 Sep 2005 |
Arts and Minds |
| Chris Mooney. Photo: Perseus Books. For some five years, Chris Mooney has been writing about the delicate overlap of science and public policy. As a correspondent for The American Prospect and Seed, a blogger, and a freelance journalist, he's carved out what you might think would be a modest, out-of-the-way niche of political punditry. Turns out, Mooney's metier has ... |
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| Topics: interview, politics, religion and spirituality (all these topics) |
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Peacock and Bull
Walking It Off, Doug Peacock's memoir, separates the man from the myth |
Tim Sprinkle |
13 Sep 2005 |
Arts and Minds |
| Walking It Off by Doug Peacock, Ewu Press, 208 pgs., 2005. Think you know Doug Peacock? Think again. He was the inspiration for George Washington Hayduke, the hard-charging, Vietnam-scarred protagonist of Edward Abbey's classic environmental novel The Monkey Wrench Gang. But there's more to the Peacock story than just trashing bulldozers and causing trouble -- a truth his new me ... |
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| Topics: land stewardship, religion and spirituality, wildlife (all these topics) |
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Coming at It From a New Anglo
U.K. Christian groups ally with eco-advocates to lobby on climate change |
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01 Sep 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Coming at It From a New Anglo U.K. Christian groups ally with eco-advocates to lobby on climate change Several Christian organizations in the U.K. have joined forces with environmental groups in a new alliance to "Stop Climate Chaos." The coalition is pressuring the British government to make cutting greenhouse-gas emissions a domestic and international priority and to support in ... |
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| Topics: climate, energy, news, religion and spirituality, United Kingdom (all these topics) |
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A Hop and a Prayer
Eco-activists team with prayer network to save hapless toad |
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31 Aug 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| A Hop and a Prayer Eco-activists team with prayer network to save hapless toad This summer's It amphibian -- the endangered arroyo toad of California, famously dismissed as "hapless" by Supreme Court nominee John G. Roberts -- is in the news again. The Center for Biological Diversity has teamed up with Christians Caring for Creation to sue the Bush administration for allegedly nudging the toad ... |
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| Topics: news, politics, religion and spirituality, wildlife (all these topics) |
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