tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2635648927717262342024-03-13T08:24:56.772-07:00Lutherans Restoring Creation BlogUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger176125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-263564892771726234.post-3852651357995574632023-05-03T10:52:00.000-07:002023-05-03T10:52:53.849-07:005/23 CCC: Spring Titles, TIME honorees, note to readers<p> 5/2023 Creation Corner Column</p><p> Spring Titles; TIME magazine honorees; note to readers</p><p><b>1. Religion and Ecology books</b></p><p>The Book of Nature: The Astonishing Beauty of God's First Sacred Text. Barbara Mahany.</p><p>Following Jesus in a Warming World: A Christian Call to Climate Action. Kyle Meyaard-Schaap.</p><p><b>2. Books with Environmental Themes</b></p><p>Elderflora: A Modern History of Ancient Trees. Jared Farmer.</p><p>Ethics In The Real World: 90 Essays on Things That Matter. Peter Singer. A fully updated and expanded edition.</p><p>Fen, Bog and Swamp: A Short History of Peatland Destruction and Its Role in the Climate Crisis. Annie Proulx.</p><p>Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility. Edited by Rebecca Solnit and Thelma Young Lutunatabua.</p><p>The Pentagon, Climate Change, and War: Charting the Rise and Fall of U.S. Military Emissions. Neta C. Crawford.</p><p>Sea Changes: An Atlas of Islands in a Rising Ocean. Christina Gerhardt.</p><p>Ten Birds That Changed the World. Stephen Moss.</p><p>Wild by Design: The Rise of Ecological Restoration. Laura J. Martin.</p><p><b>3. TIME magazine 100</b>/ The most influential people in the world (artists, titans, leaders, pioneers, innovators, icons) from the April 24/May 1, 2023 edition. Those who champion environmental causes are Johan Rockstrom, Laurene Powell Jobs, Sherry Rehman, Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva, Britney Schmidt and Peter Davis, Robin Zeng, Elizabeth Maruma Mrema, Andrea Kritcher, Catherine Coleman Flowers, Wanjira Mathai, Kate Orff, King Charles III, Yvon Chouinard.</p><p><b>4. TIMECO2 EARTH AWARDS </b>for 2023 in the May8/May 15 edition recognized five leaders in the battle against climate change.</p><p>Mark Ruffalo and Gloria Walton of the Solutions Project; Lisa P. Jackson, formerly with the US EPA now is the environmental director for Apple; Vanessa Nakate founded the Africa-based Rise Up Movement; and Antonio Guterres is Secretary-General of the U.N. who asks "What did you do to save our planet and our future when you had the chance?"</p><p><b>5. Four picture books for children that celebrate the natural world.</b></p><p>The City Tree. Shira Boss and Lorena Alvarez.</p><p>Maple and Rosemary. Alison James and Jennifer K. Mann.</p><p>One World: 24 Hours on Planet Earth. Nicola Davies and Jenni Desmond.</p><p>This is the Planet Where I Live. K.L. Going and Debra Frasier.</p><p><b>6. COVID-19 Pandemic Books</b></p><p>The Fault in Our SARS: COVID-19 in the Biden Era. Rob Wallace.</p><p>The Pandemic Divide: How COVID Increased Inequality in America. Gwendolyn L. Wright, Lucas Hubbard and William A. Darity Jr., editors.</p><p>Who We Are Now: Stories of What Americans Lost and Found during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Michelle Fishburne.</p><p> -30-</p><p>Note to readers: Due to aging issues of this blogger (I am 80), it is unclear as to how long this column can be sustained on a regular basis. I deeply appreciate the invitation to post on the LRC site since 2011.</p><p>Michael Ochs, Lutheran Layman, St. Mark's Lutheran Church, 142 Market St., Williamsport PA 17701</p><p>Website: www.stmarkswilliamsport.org</p><p>Email: stmarks@stmarkswilliamsport.org </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Michael Ochshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02332989825816982880noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-263564892771726234.post-12264350064066036212023-04-04T10:30:00.000-07:002023-04-04T10:30:18.754-07:004/2023 CCC: L. Rasmussen in Sojourners Magazine, etc.<p> Creation Corner Column for April 2023</p><p> Larry Rasmussen in <i>Sojourners Magazine</i>, et cetera</p><p><br /></p><p>1. <i><b>Sojourners Magazine</b></i> for April 2023 features an article by Larry Rasmussen adapted from his 2022 presentation at the Society of Christian Ethics, entitled "The Times They Are A-Changin'". Rasmussen is the Reinhold Niebuhr Professor Emeritus of Social Ethics at Union Theological Seminary and author of <b>The Planet You Inherit: Letters to My Grandchildren When Uncertainty's a Sure Thing</b>. sojo.net </p><p>2. In the <i><b>Sojourners</b></i> "Great Reads/Books to inform and inspire" section" are two titles of interest:</p><p>The Cross in the Midst of Creation: Following Jesus, Engaging the Powers, Transforming the World, by Sharon Delgado.</p><p>Love Your Mother: 50 States, 50 Stories, and 50 Women United for Climate Justice, by Mallory McDuff.</p><p>3. In <i><b>The Upper Room</b> (Where The World Meets to Pray)</i> for March-April 2023, a Daily Devotional Guide, comes a two-page "<b>Caring for Creation</b>" article with an invitation to visit their web site for "Create a Green Team" at upperroom.org/resources/create-a-green-team. </p><p>4. Mindful that for <b>Earth Day on April 22</b> many communities sponsor park, streambank, or neighborhood clean-up events, a link has been shown to be a factor between poor neighborhood cleanliness and human longevity. According to a study by the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) that appeared in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, poor neighborhood cleanliness was one of 8 social factors that can forecast longevity (help predict early mortality). A summary of this is in the MGH "Mind, Mood & Memory" newsletter for Mary 2023 (vol. 19, number 5).</p><p>5. Compare and Contrast "a" here with "b" .</p><p> a. from the 2008 issue 37 of<b> <i>Creation Care: A Christian Environmental Quarterly</i></b> article by Scott Sabin: Environmental Emigration: The World on Our Doorstep. Poor families worldwide are already on the move to escape environmental degradation. What's our responsibility?</p><p> b. 2023 book <b>The Great Displacement: Climate Change and the Next American Migration</b>, by Jake Bittle.<br /></p><p>6. <b> IPCC </b>March 20 Report. Following the issuing of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report, a newspaper boldly quoted Antonio Guterres, the U.N. Secretary-General, with his stark conclusion that "Humanity is on thin ice---and that ice is melting fast".</p><p>It is the opinion of this blogger that Guterres is perhaps in the best position of anyone in the world to be aware of the dire potential consequences of global climate heating, given that he has the ability to receive the scientific community's assessments at his fingertips. He has called for rich countries to quit coal, oil and natural gas by 2040, and for an end to new fossil fuel exploration. His views are well worth researching.</p><p>7. <b>Climate Homicide</b>. Definition: The theory that because climate research by fossil fuel companies showed its products caused harm, and they continued to fight to delay regulations, that this showed they had a "culpable mental state" as their continued extraction of oil, natural gas and coal inflicted harm on people, including death. "Google" this subject for clarification.</p><p>8. <b>To end this column on a hopeful note</b>, this article appeared on March 24, 2023 as an Associate Press release by Isabella O'Malley. "US renewable electricity surpassed coal in 2022" is the headline. The article reads thusly:</p><p>The U.S. Energy Information Administration announced that electricity generated from renewables surpassed coal electricity production in the United States for the first time in 2022. The growth of wind and solar significantly drove the increase in renewable energy and experts say these two resources will be the "backbone" of clean energy growth in the U.S. because of their reliability and affordability. Renewables passed nuclear electricity production for the first time in 2012 and continued to outpace it.</p><p> -30- </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Michael Ochshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02332989825816982880noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-263564892771726234.post-9109761836639773182023-03-02T11:20:00.000-08:002023-03-02T11:20:32.580-08:0050th anniv. of THE SUN magazine<p> March 2, 2023 Creation Corner Column</p><p> 50th Anniversary of "<i>THE SUN</i>" magazine</p><p>Endeavoring to "look at a sad, confused world and see it as holy," in the words of the founder and editor of the reader-supported (no advertisements!) magazine known simply as <b>The Sun</b>, Sy Safransky has often focused on the natural world in the published monthly periodical now in its 50th year.</p><p>Interviews with persons with a variety of perspectives have included those with the following, as a sample.</p><p>Robert Bilott, recipient of the Right Livelihood Award for his work on <i>PFAS</i> contamination.</p><p>Matthew Fox, author of Original Blessing. among other titles.</p><p>Barbara Kingslover, co-author of Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life; et cetera.</p><p>Bernie Krause, who has released more than fifty albums of natural landscapes and authored four books (Notes from the Wild, Into a Wild Sanctuary, Wild Soundscapes, and The Great Animal Orchestra: Finding the Origins of Music in the World's Wild Places).</p><p>Kathleen Dean Moore, co-author of Moral Ground: Ethical Action for a Planet in Peril.</p><p>Jack Turner was interviewed "on our lost intimacy with the natural world". He is a retired mountain guide.</p><p>Other interview subjects (such as Julia Butterfly Hill, Peter Matthiessen, et cetera) may be found by searching under the "natural world" heading for themes of agriculture, biology, climate change, ecology, plants, pollution and wildlife, at the magazine website "thesunmagazine.org". </p><p>Additionally often on the final page of each 50-page issue of the magazine can be found "Sunbeams", a list of quotations that dovetail with the theme of the interview. </p><p>The balance of the magazine includes photography, poetry, fiction, essays, memoirs, true stories, correspondence, and a section devoted to readers writing on themes related to their experiences having to do with a variety of topics, one per month, such as anniversaries, idols, privacy, in-laws, first love, appetites, holding on, doors, leaving home, breasts, the refrigerator, making ends meet, being stubborn, learning the hard way, tools, breakfast, the sofa, bosses, the backyard, swimming, high school, being alone, fire, right and wrong, danger, family vacations, clothes, acts of kindness, breaking the rules, bullies, in the dark, honesty, trying again, cars, noise, saying no, flying, being single, trying too hard, running late, keepsakes, the mall, fear, boyfriends and girlfriends, changing your mind, coffee, houses, at the last minute, trash, the bus, teeth, speaking up, security, never again, television, the phone, etc.</p><p>One might say there is something in "<i>The Sun</i>" to interest everyone "under the sun". Also see Ecclesiastes.</p><p> -30-</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Michael Ochshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02332989825816982880noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-263564892771726234.post-52495363488187461222023-02-01T09:32:00.000-08:002023-02-01T09:32:32.478-08:002/'23 CCC: Six Hopeful Titles<p>2/23 Creation Corner Column: Six Hopeful Titles</p><p>Earth for All: A Survival Guide for Humanity (A Report to the Club of Rome). Sandrine Dixson-Decieve, Owen Gaffney, Jayati Ghosh, Jorgen Randers, Johan Rockstrom, and Per Espen Stoknes.</p><p>Fighting In A World On Fire: The Next Generation's Guide to Protecting the Climate and Saving Our Future. Andreas Malm. Adapted by Jimmy Whipps, Llewyn Whipps.</p><p>Moral Ground: Ethical Action for a Planet in Peril. Kathleen Dean Moore and Michael P. Nelson.</p><p>No Miracles Needed: How Today's Technology Can Save Our Climate and Clean Our Air. Mark Z. Jacobson. </p><p>Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility. Edited by Rebecca Solnit and Thelma Lutunatabua.</p><p>Responding to Climate Climate Change: A free conversation guide for personal reflection and group discussion from <i>The Christian Century </i>when you sign up at christiancentury.org/climate .</p>Michael Ochshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02332989825816982880noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-263564892771726234.post-88458843224431875552023-01-04T10:31:00.002-08:002023-01-11T09:46:39.903-08:001/2023 CCC: Calvin B. DeWitt's EARTHWISE book<p> 1/2023 CCC: Calvin DeWitt's EARTHWISE book</p><p>A Guide to Eight Principles on Hopeful Creation Care are briefly summarized from Calvin B. DeWitt's book EARTHWISE by Allen Johnson, coordinator of Christians for the Mountains, publisher for <i>The Mountain Vision (a free print publication)</i>.</p><p><b>1. The Earthkeeping Principle</b></p><p>As the Lord keeps and sustains us, so we must keep and sustain our Lord's creation</p><p><b>2. The Fruitfulness Principle</b></p><p>We should enjoy but not destroy creation's fruitfulness.</p><p><b>3. The Sabbath Principle</b></p><p>We must provide for creation's sabbath rests.</p><p><b>4. The Discipleship Principle</b></p><p>We must be disciples of Jesus Christ, the Creator, Sustainer, and Reconciler of all things.</p><p><b>5. The Kingdom Principle</b></p><p>We must seek first the kingdom of God.</p><p><b>6. The Contentment Principle</b></p><p>We must see true contentment.</p><p><b>7. The Praxis Principle</b></p><p>We must practice what we believe.</p><p><b>8. The Con-Servancy Principle</b></p><p>We must return creation's service to us with service of our own.</p><p>--------</p><p>Johnson also summarizes DeWitt's analysis of what the Creator provides in the creation. These seven provisions are:</p><p>Energy exchange with sun and space; soil building; cycling and recycling in the biosphere (the carbon cycle and the hydrologic cycle); water purification and detoxification; fruitfulness and abundant life; global circulations of water and air; and human ability to learn from creation.</p><p>---------</p><p>The full two pages of these summaries may be found on pages 4 and 5 of the Fall 2022 issue of <i>The</i> <i>Mountain Vision</i>, 12664 Frost Road, Dunmore WV 24934. It is a free print publication issued by Christians For The Mountains (CFTM), one of 13 programs of World Stewardship Institute (WSI), a 501-c-3 nonprofit corporation at 3840 Finley Avenue, Building 33, Suite 202 (P,O, Box 7348), Santa Rosa, CA 95407. The contact for the WSI is Frederick Krueger and the website is https:ecostewards.org .</p><p> -30-</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Michael Ochshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02332989825816982880noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-263564892771726234.post-11637546151022617872022-12-01T10:59:00.000-08:002022-12-01T10:59:55.159-08:0012/22 CCC: Anniversaries and Readings, old and new<p> 12/1/22 Creation Corner Column</p><p><b> New Readings and Old Anniversaries</b></p><p><b>ANNIVERSARIES</b></p><p>50th anniversary of the USA Clean Water Act</p><p>50th anniversary of The Club of Rome's influential, and controversial, environmental report <b>The Limits</b> <b>to Growth</b>, by Donella H. Meadows, Dennis L. Meadows, Jorgen Randers, and William W. Behrens III..</p><p><b>READINGS</b></p><p>Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus. David Quammen.</p><p>Chasing Plants: Journeys with a Botanist through Rainforests, Swamps, and Mountains. Chris Thorogood.</p><p>The Creative Lives of Animals. Carol Gigliotti.</p><p>Darwin's Love of Life: A Singular Case of Biophilia. Kay Harel.</p><p>Hothouse Earth: An Inhabitant's Guide. Bill McGuire.</p><p>The Huxleys: An Intimate History of Evolution. Alison Bashford.</p><p>In the Name of Plants: From Attenborough to Washington, the People behind Plant Names. Sandra Knapp.</p><p>Justice for Animals: Our Collective Responsibility. Martha Nussbaum.</p><p>Trees: From Root to Leaf. Paul Smith. Foreword by Robert Macfarlane.</p><p>-------------</p><p><b>Children's titles</b> from the winter 2022 issue of the Nature Conservancy magazine;</p><p>Alexander von Humboldt (age range: 4-7 years)</p><p>A Bird Will Soar (age range: 8-12 years)</p><p>A World Full of Nature Stories (age range 5-8 years)</p><p>-------------------</p><p> <b>Recent periodicals with environmental themes featured:</b></p><p><b>Time magazine</b> of October 10/October 17, 2022 provided a list of their "TIME100 Next" artists, advocates, leaders, innovators, and phenoms, many of whom include environmental aspirations as their motivations.</p><p><b>Sojourners</b> for December 2022 has as its cover story "Is Climate Change a 'White' Issue?" Climate activist Vanessa Nakate, author of <i>A Bigger Picture: My Fight to Bring a New African Voice to the Climate Crisis,</i> is interviewed.</p><p>"The Climate Issue" is the theme for the November 28, 2022 edition of <b>The New Yorker</b> magazine. Articles include ones about the potential collapse of a Florida-size glacier ("Journey to Doomsday"); a low-lying Alaskan town reckoning with extinction ("The Coming Storm"); wind farms coming to coal country ("Blade Runners"); and, by Elizabeth Kolbert, an A to Z list of stories we tell ourselves about the Earth's future climate crisis ("A Vast Experiment").</p><p> ------------------------30--------------------------------</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Michael Ochshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02332989825816982880noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-263564892771726234.post-73390248694236548302022-11-03T09:54:00.000-07:002022-11-03T09:54:29.925-07:0011/22 CCC Hopeful Books, Children's Titles, Eviro Titles, Pandemic Books,<p><b> 11/22 Creation Corner Column</b></p><p><b> Hopeful Books, Children's Titles, Enviro Titles, Pandemic Books, a Headline, an Upcoming Event</b></p><p><b>HOPEFUL BOOKS</b></p><p>Better Than We Found It: Conversations to Help Save the World. Frederick Joseph & Porsche Joseph.</p><p>Beyond Climate Breakdown: Envisioning New Stories of Radical Hope. Peter Friedrici. Foreword by Kathleen Dean Moore.</p><p>Bright Hope: Discovering Resilient, Sustainable Ways of Living Through Even the Darkest Times. Ted Brackman. Foreword by Jim Wallis.</p><p>Care-Centered Politics: From the Home to the Planet. Robert Gottlieb.</p><p>Climate, Catastrophe, and Faith. Philip Jenkins.</p><p>Earth for All: A Survival Guide for Humanity (A Report to the Club of Rome). Sandrine Dixson-Decleve, Owen Gaffney, Jayati Ghosh, Jorgen Randers, Johan Rockstrom, Per Espen Stoknes.</p><p>The Pentagon, Climate Change, and War: Charting the Rise and Fall of U.S. Military Emissions. Neta C. Crawford.</p><p>Unsettling: Surviving Extinction Together. Elizabeth Weinberg.</p><p>Zen and the Art of Saving the Planet. Thich Nhat Hanh.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>CHILDREN'S TITLES, suitable for elementary schoolers</b></p><p>The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind. William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer (picture book edition).</p><p>Climate Change, The Choice Is Ours: The Facts, Our Future, And Why There's Hope! David Miles with illustrations.</p><p>The Lorax. Dr. Seuss.</p><p>Polar Bear, Why Is Your World Melting? Robert E. Wells.</p><p>Thank You, Earth: A Love Letter To Our Planet. April Pulley Sayre.</p><p>We Are Water Protectors. Carole Lindstrom, illustrated.</p><p>Note: These titles are from an abridged list provided by TIME magazine on-line at their web site (TIME.com/kids-climate-books) as noted in their print edition of October 24/October 31, 2022.</p><p><b>OTHER ENVIRONMENTAL TITLES</b></p><p>The Chemistry of Fires at the Wildland-Urban Interface. Committee on the Chemistry of Urban Wildfires; National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.</p><p>Klimat: Russia In The Age of Climate Change. Thane Gustafson.</p><p>Solomon Described Plants: A Botanical Guide to Plant Life in the Bible. Lytton John Musselman.</p><p>Vanishing Sands: Losing Beaches to Mining. Orrin H. Pilkey et al.</p><p>Women Who Invented the Sixties (includes a chapter on Rachel Carson). Steve Golin.</p><p><b>EPIDEMIC/PANDEMIC TITLES</b></p><p>Beyond the Pandemic: Spiritual and Ecological Challenges. Diarmuid O'Murchu.</p><p>The Church of the Dead: The Epidemic of 1576 and the Birth of Christianity in the Americas. Jennifer Scheper Hughes.</p><p>Grounded: Perpetual Flight...and Then the Pandemic. Christiopher Schaberg.</p><p>A Letter to Liberals (from Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.): Censorship and Covid: An Attack on Science and American Ideals. Children's Health Defense, second edition revised and updated.</p><p>Postcolonial Practices of Care: A Project of Togetherness During COVID-19 and Racial Violence. Edited by Hellena Moon and Emmanuel Y. Larty.</p><p><b>RECENT HEADLINE</b></p><p>"Climate Disasters all but inevitable". THE WEEK magazine for Sept. 30, 2022, Health & Science, p. 22.</p><p>With that in mind, and also being mindful of the broad definition of climate change being a result of "anthropogenic" causes ("that which is caused by human action"), how might we be aware of what actions we can take to reduce our harmful impact on the earth and its climate? How are we complicit and what can we do to offset such?</p><p><b>NEXT UPCOMING EVENT</b></p><p>December Conference of Parties 15 (COP15) Biodiversity Summit in Canada.</p><p>According to the World Wildlife Foundation and Zoological Society of London's biennial Living Planet Report, wildlife populations (birds, fish, amphibians, reptiles) have declined by two-thirds since 1970. Many scientists think this is the largest loss of life on Earth since the time of the dinosaurs, and that it is being driven by humans. (Source: <i>The Guardian Weekly</i>, 21 October 2022, "Scientists demand action on animal population decline".)</p><p> -30-</p><p> </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Michael Ochshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02332989825816982880noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-263564892771726234.post-12396018263178620242022-10-04T10:30:00.005-07:002022-10-04T10:30:37.121-07:00CCC, 10/22. Secular Books, Quotes, COP 27, ELCA invitation<p> <b> October 2022 Creation Corner Column</b></p><p> <b>Environmental and Pandemic Books, Recent Quotes, COP 27, ELCA Climate Care Proposal</b></p><p><br /></p><p><b>SECULAR BOOK TITLES ON THE ENVIRONMENT</b></p><p>At Home on an Unruly Planet: Finding Refuge on a Changed Earth. Madeline Ostrander.</p><p>Border and Rules: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism. Harsha Walia.</p><p>The Foundations of Glen Canyon Dam: Infrastructure of Dispossession on the Colorado Plateau. Erika Marie Bsumek.</p><p>The Future Is Degrowth: A Guide fo a World Beyond Capitalism. Matthias Schmelzer, Andrea Vetter, and Aaron Vansintjan.</p><p>The Green New Deal and the Future of Work. Craig Calhoun and Benjamin Y. Fong, editors.</p><p>Greenhouse Planet: How Rising CO2 Changes Plants and Life As We Know It. Lewis H. Ziska.</p><p>The Hidden Universe: Adventures in Biodiversity. Alexandre Antonelli.</p><p>Methuselah's Zoo: What Nature Can Teach Us About Living Longer, Healthier Lives. Steven Austad.</p><p>Mobilize Food! Wartime Inspiration for Environmental Victory Today. Eleanor Boyle.</p><p>National Parks Forever: Fifty Years of Fighting and a Case for Independence. Jonathan B. Jarvis and T. Destry Jarvis</p><p>The New Climate War: The Fight to Take Back Our Planet. Michael Mann.</p><p>Nomad Century: How Climate Migration Will Reshape Our World. Gaia Vince.</p><p>Nowhere Left to Go: How Climate Change is Driving Species to the Ends of the Earth. Benjamin von Brackel.</p><p>Planet in Peril: Humanity's Four Greatest Challenges and How We Can Overcome Them. Michael D. Bess.</p><p>The Porch: Meditations on the Edge of Nature. Charlie Hailey.</p><p>Portraits of Earth Justice: Americans Who Tell The Truth. Robert Shetterly et al.</p><p>Regenesis: Feeding the World Without Devouring the Planet. George Monbiot.</p><p>Tuzo: The Unlikely Revolutionary of Plate Tectonics. Nick Eyles.</p><p>Underland: A Deep Time Journey. Robert Macfarlane.</p><p>We Are All Whalers: The Plight of Whales and Our Responsibility. Michael J. Moore.</p><p>What Would Nature Do: A Guide for Our Uncertain Times. Ruth DeFries.</p><p>Writing Gaia: The Scientific Correspondence of James Lovelock and Lynn Margulis. Edited by Bruce Clarke and Sebastien Dutreuil.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>PANDEMIC BOOK TITLES </b></p><p>COVID and Gender in the Middle East. Edited by Rita Stephan.</p><p>Preexisting Conditions: Recounting the Plague. Samuel Weber.</p><p>The Social and Political Impact of COVID-19 in the United States. Beth Redbird, Laurel Harbridge-Yong, and Rachel Davis Mersey, editors.</p><p>States of Plague: /Reading Albert Camus in a Pandemic. Alice Kaplan and Laura Marris.</p><p>Victories Never Last: Reading and Caregiving in a Time of Plague. Robert Zaretsky.</p><p>The Viral Underclass: The Human Toll When Inequality and Disease Collide. Steven W. Thrasher.</p><p>What World Is This? A Pandemic Phenomenology. Judith Butler.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>QUOTABLE BAD NEWS: </b>"UN chief: World is in 'life-or-death struggle' for survival." Associated Press headline, Oct. 4, 2022. (note: the reason or cause is that "climate chaos gallops ahead".).</p><p><b>QUOTABLE GOOD NEWS: </b>"Biden administration launches environmental justice office." Associated Press headline, September 26, 2022.</p><p><b>TWO UPCOMING EVENTS:</b></p><p><b>1. NEXT U.N. WORLD CONFERENCE ON CLIMATE: </b>Congress of Parties 27 (COP 27), November, in the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh.</p><p><b>2. AN ELCA INVITATION </b>to participate in the drafting of a social statement on climate care has been issued. To comment prior to December 2, go to elca.org/climatecare. </p><p> -30-</p>Michael Ochshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02332989825816982880noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-263564892771726234.post-48383318090034243422022-09-01T08:58:00.005-07:002022-09-01T08:58:44.779-07:009/22 CCC: Books, Nature Therapy, Incineration, Quotes<p> <b>9/22 Creation Corner Column</b></p><p><b> Books, Nature Therapy, Incineration, Quotations</b></p><p><br /></p><p><b>BOOK TITLES</b></p><p>Animalkind. Ingrid Newkirk and Gene Stone.</p><p>The Book of Minds: How to Understand Ourselves and Other Beings, from Animals to AI to Aliens. Philip Hall.</p><p>EcoActivist Testament: Explorations of Faith and Nature for Fellow Travelers. H. Paul Santmire.</p><p>How To Sell A Poison: The Rise, Fall, and Toxic Return of DDT. Elena Conis.</p><p>Is Science Enough?: Forty Critical Questions About Climate Justice. Aviva Chomsky</p><p>The Next Apocalypse: The Art and Science of Survival. Chris Begley.</p><p>Plagues in the Nation: How Epidemics Shaped America. Polly J. Price.</p><p>Science for a Green New Deal: Connecting Climate, Economics and Social Justice. Eric A. Davidson.</p><p>Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic. David Quammen</p><p>The Viral Underclass: The Human Toll When Inequality and Disease Collide. Steven Thrasher.</p><p>Water Always Wins: Thriving in an Age of Drought and Deluge. Erica Gies.</p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>FREE E-BOOK FOR A GREENER, FAIRER FUTURE</b></p><p>Resilience Matters: Opportunities for Action to Strengthen Communities. Laurie Mazur, editor. Available on-line at no cost, visit Islandpress.org/progressive. A publication from the Urban Resilience Project.</p><p><b>BOOKS re: EFFECTIVE ALTRUISM, see William MacAskill</b></p><p><b>BOOKS re: HISTORY OF FOSSIL FUEL USE, see Andreas Malm</b></p><p><b>NATURE THERAPY, AN "EVERGREEN SOLUTION". </b> Free passes for patients to visit national parks are provided by some healthcare providers in four Canadian provinces. Prescribing nature to help people, the touted benefits include increased energy, decreased anxiety, pain reduction, reduced stress and improved heart health. Source: <i>"This therapy is out there"</i> article in Aug/Sep issue of Men's Health magazine.</p><p><b>TOXIC BURN PITS AND BACKYARD BURNER BARREL BURNING</b></p><p>A recently passed U.S. bill to aid veterans exposed to toxic burn pits might spur municipalities that permit backyard burner barrel burning to reconsider, and ban the practice. </p><p>With burn pits and burner barrels being used to dispose of trash, batteries, chemicals, cans, tires, petroleum products, plastics, human waste (used diapers), etc., and evidence linking the toxic chemical fume pollution and particulate matter from such incineration to some respiratory illnesses (asthma, bronchitis), certain cancers, skin and cardiovascular problems, migraines, some neurological conditions, etc., it could be argued that it is time for municipalities that permit the practice to "clear the air" and ban backyard burner barrel burning as an ounce of prevention to prevent any further exposure to such air-borne pollution.</p><p><b>QUOTABLE</b></p><p>"The distrust between faith and science is not just an unfortunate circumstance. It's actually costing lives." Francis Collins.</p><p>"The apocalypse is here, it's just not evenly distributed." Gregory Hays.</p><p>"Big climate bill: Spending green bucks to spur green energy." Associated Press headline, Aug. 12, 2022.</p><p>-------------------------------------------------30--------------------------------------------</p><p>Note: This column from Michael Ochs began 25 years ago, issued in the monthly print newsletter of the ecumenical United Churches of Lycoming County (UCLC), Williamsport, PA. He is a member of the UCLC Christian Social Concerns Committee.</p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b><br /></b></p>Michael Ochshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02332989825816982880noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-263564892771726234.post-11131575451963747672022-08-03T09:05:00.001-07:002022-08-03T09:05:17.123-07:008/22 CCC: Summer Books, etc., II<p><b> 8/22 Creation Corner Column: Summer Books, etc. II</b></p><p><br /></p><p><b>BOOKS</b></p><p>The Anthropocene as a Geological Time. Jan Zalasiewicz.</p><p>Carbon Democracy. Timothy Mitchell.</p><p>Climate, Catastrophe, and Faith: How Changes in Climate Drive Religious Upheaval. Philip Jenkins.</p><p>Engineering Vulnerability: In Pursuit of Climate Adaptation. Sarah E. Vaughn.</p><p>Ever Green: Saving Big Forests to Save the Planet. John W. Reid and Thomas E. Lovejoy.</p><p>Handbook of Environmental Sociology. Beth Schaefer Caniglia et al, editors</p><p>How Climate Change Affects Surgery. Joseph Wayne Smith and Guy Maddern.</p><p>How the World Breaks: Life in Catastrophe's Path, from the Caribbean to Siberia. Stan and Paul Cox.</p><p>IPCC, Climate Change 2022: Mitigation of Climate Change. Working Group III Contribution to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.</p><p>Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability.</p><p>Literature for a Changing Planet. Martin Puchner.</p><p>Losing Earth: The Decade We Could Have Stopped Climate Change. Nathaniel Rich.</p><p>The Ministry for the Future. Kim Stanley Robinson.</p><p>The Nature of Tomorrow: A History of the Environmental Future. Michael Rawson.</p><p>The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis. Amitav Ghosh.</p><p>Oceans of Grain: How American Wheat Remade the World. Scott Reynolds Nelson.</p><p>Profits and Power: Navigating the Politics and Geopolitics of Oil. David Detomasi.</p><p>The Sociology of Survival: Social Problems of Growth. Charles H. Anderson.</p><p>The Treeline: The Last Forest and the Future of Life on Earth. Ben Rawlence.</p><p>The Understory: A Female Environmentalist In The Land Of The Midnight Sun. M.E. Schuman.</p><p>White Skin, Black Fuel: On the Danger of Fossil Fascism. Andreas Malm and the Zetkin Collective.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>GRAPHIC NOVELS</b></p><p>The Cartoon Introduction to Climate Change, revised edition. Brady Klein and Yoram Bauman.</p><p>The Most Important Comic Book on Earth: Stories to Save the World. Paul Goodenough and Rewriting Extinction.</p><p>----------</p><p><b>An August 2022 headline:</b> "Chances of climate catastrophe are ignored, scientists say", 8/2/22 news article by Associated Press Science Writer Seth Borenstein.</p><p><b>August 29, 2005</b>, Hurricane Katrina hits New Orleans.</p><p> -30-</p>Michael Ochshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02332989825816982880noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-263564892771726234.post-26180591938283173522022-07-06T09:42:00.000-07:002022-07-06T09:42:33.450-07:007/22 CCC: Summer Books (Earth, Pandemic, etc.)<p> <b>July 2022 Creation Corner Column: Summer Reading Suggestions</b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>BOOKS ON THE ENVIRONMENT, NATURE, CREATION, EARTH, ECOLOGY</b></p><p>Above Sea Level (novel). Douglas E. Congdon.</p><p>American Earth: Environmental Writing Since Thoreau. Edited by Bill McKibben. Foreword by Al Gore.</p><p>Beloved Beasts: Fighting for Life in an Age of Extinction. Michelle Nijhuis.</p><p>Birdscapes: Birds in Our Imagination and Experience. Jeremy Mynott.</p><p>The Book of Green Quotations. James Daley, editor.</p><p>Chimpanzee Memoirs: Stories of Studying and Saving Our Closest Living Relatives. Edited by Stephen Ross and Lydia Hopper..</p><p>The Coal Trap: How West Virginia Was Left Behind in the Clean Energy Revolution. James M. Van Nostrand.</p><p>The Day the World Stops Shopping: How Ending Consumerism Saves the Environment and Ourselves. J. B. MacKinnon.</p><p>Earthlings: Imaginative Encounters with the Natural World. Adrian Parr.</p><p>Ending Fossil Fuels: Why Net Zero Is Not Enough. Holly Jean Buck.</p><p>The High /Sierra: A Love Story. Kim Stanley Robinson.</p><p>The Insect Crisis: The Fall of the Tiny Empires That Run the World. Oliver Milman.</p><p>The Intersectional Environmentalist: How to Dismantle Systems of Oppression to Protect People + Planet. Leah Thomas.</p><p>Klimat: Russia in the Age of Climate Change. Thane Gustafson.</p><p>On Earth as in Heaven: Daily Wisdom for Twenty-First Century Christians. N. T. Wright.</p><p>Passions for Birds: Science, Sentiment, and Sport. Sean Nixon.</p><p>Plastic Unlimited: How Corporations Are Fueling the Ecological Crisis and What We Can Do About It. Alice Hah.</p><p>Power in the Wild: The Subtle and Not-So-Subtle Ways Animals Strive for Control Over Others. Lee Alan Dugatkin.</p><p>Reckoning with the U.S. Role in Global Ocean Plastic Waste. By Committee on the United States Contribution to Global Ocean Waste; The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.</p><p>Requiem for America's best Idea: National Parks in the Era of Climate Change. Michael J. Yochim.</p><p>Saving Yellowstone: Exploration and Preservation in Reconstruction America. Megan Kate Nelson.</p><p>Second Nature: Scenes from a World Remade. Nathaniel Rich.</p><p>Sex in City Plants, Animals, Fungi, and More: A Guide to Reproductive Diversity. Kenneth D. Frank.</p><p>Silent Earth: Averting the Insect Apocalypse. Dave Goulson.</p><p>Sonorous Desert: What Deep Listening Taught Early Christian Monks and What It Can Teach Us. Kim Haines-Eitzen.</p><p>Subtract: The Untapped Science of Less. Leidy Klotz.</p><p>Surveying the Anthropocene: Art and Photography Now. Patricia Macdonald.</p><p>Thoughts on People, Planet & Profit. Amy Domini.</p><p>Urban Climate Insurgency (An issue of Social Text, 150). Editors: Ashley Dawson, Marco Armiero, Ethemcan Turhan and Roberta Biasillo.</p><p>Waste: One Woman's Fight Against America's Dirty Secret. Catherin Coleman Flowers.</p><p>Water Always Wins: Thriving in an Age of Drought and Deluges. Erica Gies.</p><p>Why Veganism Matters: The Moral Value of Animals. Gary L. Francione.</p><p>Wild Souls: Freedom and Flourishing in the Non-Human World. Emma Marris.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>PANDEMIC LITERATURE</b></p><p>Dear Vaccine: Global Voices Speak to the Pandemic (poetry). Naomi Shihab Nye, David Hassler and Tyler Meier.</p><p>Natural Immunity and Covid-19: What it is and How it Can Save Your Life. William A. Haseltine and Josephine Gurch.</p><p>Next Time There's a Pandemic. Vivek Shraya.</p><p>Omicron: From Pandemic to Epidemic. The Future of Covid-19. William A. Haseltine and Griffin McCombs. An on-line e-Book updated regularly.</p><p>Plagues & Pencils: A Year of Pandemic Sketches. Edward Carey.</p><p>Variants: The Shape-Shifting Challenge of Covid-19. William A. Haseltine. An e-book updated regularly.</p><p>Victories Never Last: Reading and Caregiving in a Time of Plague. Robert Zaretsky.</p><p>The World the Plague Made: The Black Death and the Rise of Europe. James Belich.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Michael Ochshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02332989825816982880noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-263564892771726234.post-14065433992476187952022-06-01T08:59:00.000-07:002022-06-01T08:59:23.648-07:006/2022 CCC: Rights of Nature Movement<p> June 2022 Creation Corner Column </p><p> The Rights of Nature Movement</p><p>"Learn to Love Our Planet the Way God Does" is a description of a new book, <b> A Christian's Guide to Planet Earth: Why It Matters and How To Care For It, </b>by Betsy Painter.</p><p>God has a covenant with his creation; what is our covenant with God's creation? <b>The Green Bible</b> (2008) helps us understand the Bible's powerful message for the earth, and we can look to the secular rights of nature movement to discern how we might try to express our responsibility, as God's agents, to care for the integrity of God's creation.</p><p>The Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF) is one example of such an effort. Founded by Thomas Linzey (full disclosure, my acquaintance with him dates to the 1990s), a recent article by Elizabeth Kolbert in <i>The New Yorker</i> of April 18, 2022, "Testing the Waters: Should the natural world have rights?" is an interesting overview of CELDF's history and attempts to fulfill its mission.</p><p>Also noted therein is a law review article and book profiling the efforts of Christopher Stone, "Should Trees Have Standing?---Toward Legal Rights for Natural Objects".</p><p>Worth mentioning too is the recent special issue on the environment published by <i>The Progressive</i> magazine of April/May 2022, wherein one finds the "Vox Populist" column by Jim Hightower, "Protecting the Rights of Nature", that surveys worldwide enactment of enforceable Rights of Nature provisions.</p><p>As Bill McKibben (founder of 350.org) notes in his June 2022 "Deep Economy" column article, "The Greatest Dereliction of Duty", in <i>Sojourners</i> magazine, we've "...long known that we needed to do something about climate change---after all, the Arctic is melting, which seems like the kind of sign that doesn't require much interpretation."</p><p>Further, as the McKibben article "pull-quote" emphasizes, "We must take evil seriously when it arises, not putting it off in the hope that someone else will take it on."</p><p>One example of climate change deniers and doubters is profiled in a new PBS Frontline docuseries, "The Power of Big Oil".</p><p>Finally, as the motivating description of reasons for reading the new book by Martin Puchner, <b>Literature</b> <b>for a Changing Planet</b>, puts it: "Why we must learn to tell new new stories about our relationship with the earth if we are to avoid climate catastrophe."</p><p>That sentence expresses, in my estimation, what the purpose of Lutherans Restoring Creation is.</p><p> -30-</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Michael Ochshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02332989825816982880noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-263564892771726234.post-43174066492946273382022-05-01T10:41:00.002-07:002022-05-01T10:51:16.627-07:005/22 CCC: Reasons for Hope<p> <b>5/22 Creation Corner Column: Reasons for Hope.</b></p><p><b>Hope is a discipline. Our job is to cultivate hope. </b> Mariame Kaba.</p><p><b>THIRD ACT</b>: Our Time is Now! A new organization, Third Act, is mobilizing the generation (Boomers, born 1946-1964) with the most political and economic influence to fight for a working climate, among other priorities. Such "experienced Americans", some seventy Americans over the age of 60 are being encouraged by environmentalist and United Methodist layman Bill McKibben to help stabilize the climate. See their home page.</p><p><b>RESTRAINT OF GLOBAL HEATING IS POSSIBLE IF ALL MEASURES TAKEN.</b></p><p>For the first time, the world is in a position to limit global heating below 2C, according to the first in-depth analysis of the net zero pledges made by nations at the UN COP26 climate summit in December.</p><p>Before these pledges, a temperature rise above 2C was almost inevitable, bringing more severe effects for billions of people. Now it is more likely that the peak rise will be about 1.9C. However, the researchers said this depended on all nations implementing their pledges on time and in full, and warned that the policies to do that were not in place. The pledges include some that developing countries have said will happen only with more financial and technical support. (Source: The Guardian Weekly, 22 April 2022.)</p><p><b>RECENT TITLES</b></p><p>Climates, Habitats, Environments. Edited by Ute Meta Bauer.</p><p>From Big Oil to Big Green: Holding the Oil Industry to Account for the Climate Crisis. Marco Grasso.</p><p>Natura Urbana: Ecological Constellations in Urban Space. Matthew Gandy.</p><p>Pandora's Toolbox: The Hopes and Hazards of Climate Intervention. Wake Smith.</p><p>The Pivotal Generation: Why We Have a Moral Responsibility to Slow Climate Change Right Now. Henry Shue.</p><p>Rewilding: The Radical New Science of Ecological Recovery, The Illustrated Edition. Paul Jepson and Cain Blythe.</p><p>Waste: One Woman's Fight Against America's Dirty Secret. Catherine Coleman Flowers.</p><p><b>From the "Earth, Inc." cover story of TIME magazine</b> for April 28/May 2, 2022:</p><p><b>ESG</b> refers to prioritizing environmental, social, and corporate governance concerns in investing.</p><p><b>COP26 Coalition</b>: a climate-justice group.</p><p><b>"Ecopreneurs"</b> are environmentally focused entrepreneurs taking risks for the critical work of fossil-fuel reduction and increased awareness. Such individuals, innovators and businesses around the world help promote technical and nature-based projects, develop new energy sources, and support climate-vulnerable communities around the world.</p><p><b>Examples of climate terminology in corporate 10-K SEC filings:</b></p><p><b>Climate change </b>references include broad climate terms (climate change, global warming, climate crisis); climate effects (sea levels, biodiversity, wildfires, extreme weather); climate causes (greenhouse gases, CO2, carbon emissions, methane).</p><p><b>Corporate ideals</b> include sustainable principles (ESG, closed loop and other sustainability-jargon terms); climate goals (net zero, carbon-neutral, decarbonize); social responsibility (fair trade, social impact, shared value).</p><p><b>Corporate actions</b> include energy transition (clean energy, renewables, energy efficiency); climate measurement (assessment terms such as carbon footprint, Scope 3, SASB or the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board); Offsets (compensating references for emissions, such as carbon capture, carbon pricing).</p><p>TIME Magazine has a <b>2030 committee</b> project that will mark this decade's progress toward a better world and offer solutions for change.</p><p> -30-</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Michael Ochshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02332989825816982880noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-263564892771726234.post-26552952178894178042022-04-07T08:50:00.001-07:002022-04-07T09:27:12.137-07:00<p> Creation Corner Column for April 2022</p><p> ANNIVERSARIES AND MORE THINGS TO DO FROM "YES!" MAGAZINE</p><p><b>ANNIVERSARIES</b></p><p>Celebrating 20 years and certifying hundreds of millions of dollars to environmental causes, while focusing on the next 20 years ahead is <b>1% For The Planet</b>. Everyone has a 1% to give for a better future. Learn how you can get involved at onepercentfortheplanet.org .</p><p>It is the fortieth year in print for <b>"ORION: People and Nature"</b> ad-free quarterly magazine, publishing some of the best writing on the environment. Go to orionmagazine.org .</p><p>Final List of <b>"Things You Can Do Help In The Climate Crisis"</b> from the Small Works column by Sarah Lazarovic in <b>"YES! magazine</b>: Journalism for People Building a Better World," used with permission. See prior monthly Creation Corner Column blogs for earlier entries to this list of 100.</p><p>Talk climate all the time.</p><p>Two words: Refrigerant management.</p><p>Two more words: Methane management.</p><p>Start a climate book club.</p><p>Compost! Mulch!</p><p>Tell big polluters how you really feel.</p><p>Decarbonize shipping. Don't choose 2-day.</p><p>Avoid shipping by shopping locally.</p><p>Electrify everything.</p><p>Consider community solar.</p><p>Start a community food garden.</p><p>Gardeners: Know thy cover crops.</p><p>Plastic is a fracking product. Pass it on.</p><p>Reduce your use of plastic.</p><p>Pressure politicians to up their emissions targets.</p><p>Earth stuff 101: Read! Read! Read!</p><p>Dispel climate disinfo.</p><p>Understand off sets and their limitations (not guilt-free!).</p><p>Choose low-carbon, high-nature activities.</p><p>Support innovative tech solutions.</p><p>Listen to those who are most affected by the climate crisis.</p><p>Follow the money.</p><p>Learn from Robin Wall Kimmerer.</p><p>Take science tips from Katharine Hayhoe</p><p>Preach action, not doom.</p><p>"Remember that you are alive at just the right moment to change everything." Eric Holthaus.</p><p>Take care of yourself so you can take care of the planet!</p><p><b>Forthcoming Events, Dates, Anniversaries</b></p><p><b>Sunday, June 5 is World Environment Day.</b> The 2022 theme, in partnership with the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) is "Only One Earth", with a focus on shifting to more sustainable, greener lifestyles. This year marks 50 years since the first UN conference at Stockholm in 1972 that led to the creation of the UNEP and the designation of June 5 as World Environment Day (WED) every year. This year the event will be hosted in Sweden.</p><p>June 1, Orca Action Month</p><p>June 8, World Oceans Day</p><p>June 19, Juneteenth </p><p>July 1, 120th anniversary of Chickasaw National Recreation Area</p><p>July 2, International Save the Vaquita Day</p><p> -30-</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Michael Ochshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02332989825816982880noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-263564892771726234.post-56041520943701838872022-03-02T08:05:00.000-08:002022-03-02T08:05:27.108-08:003/22 CCC: April Earth Day etc. events; Things to Do; Calendar dates<p> </p><p><br /></p><div style="background-color: white; color: #26282a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br clear="none" /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #26282a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><div id="ydpa2a20a81yiv6331462103ydpdbea58d8yiv0199150245"><div class="ydpa2a20a81yiv6331462103ydpdbea58d8yiv0199150245ydp4e7b3134yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-size: 16px;"><div id="ydpa2a20a81yiv6331462103ydpdbea58d8yiv0199150245ydp4e7b3134yiv0406519996"><div class="ydpa2a20a81yiv6331462103ydpdbea58d8yiv0199150245ydp4e7b3134yiv0406519996ydpa04ad75byahoo-style-wrap" dir="ltr"> <b> March 2022 Creation Corner Column</b></div><div class="ydpa2a20a81yiv6331462103ydpdbea58d8yiv0199150245ydp4e7b3134yiv0406519996ydpa04ad75byahoo-style-wrap" dir="ltr"><b> Upcoming March & April dates for meaningful events</b></div><div class="ydpa2a20a81yiv6331462103ydpdbea58d8yiv0199150245ydp4e7b3134yiv0406519996ydpe701c84dyahoo_quoted" id="ydpa2a20a81yiv6331462103ydpdbea58d8yiv0199150245ydp4e7b3134yiv0406519996ydpe701c84dyahoo_quoted_6483037690"><div style="font-size: 13px;"><div id="ydpa2a20a81yiv6331462103ydpdbea58d8yiv0199150245ydp4e7b3134yiv0406519996ydpe701c84dyiv0537769967"><div class="ydpa2a20a81yiv6331462103ydpdbea58d8yiv0199150245ydp4e7b3134yiv0406519996ydpe701c84dyiv0537769967ydp6d4973f6yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-size: 16px;"><div dir="ltr"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr"><b>March 31, 2022</b> On-line and free: A Q&A discussion with climate scientist Dr. Katharine Hayhoe on her case for hope and healing in a divided world. Where do we begin? What do we say when people are skeptical? How do we stay hopeful in the face of some overwhelming trends? And what is our call as Christians? AustinSeminary.edu/savingus .</div><div dir="ltr"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr"><b>April 22, 2022</b>, Friday is the 52nd anniversary celebration of Earth Day. Look for events in your community, and check for your religious denomination's web sites, and/or see these web sites:</div><div dir="ltr"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr">1. "Invest In Our Planet: What Will You Do? theme materials at the earthday.org site.</div><div dir="ltr"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr">2. Earth Day activities for churches via progressivechurchmedia.com/earthday2022</div><div dir="ltr"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr">3. "Happy Mother Earth's Day: Save Earth to Save Many Lives" via earthreminder.com</div><div dir="ltr"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr">4.GodSpaceLight</div><div dir="ltr"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr">5.epa.gov.earthday </div><div dir="ltr"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr">6. earthdayinitiative.org (virtual stage)</div><div dir="ltr"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr">7. greenmatters.com </div><div dir="ltr"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr">8. umcmission.org resources from the United Methodist Church </div><div dir="ltr"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr">9. sciencemoms.com </div><div dir="ltr"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr">10. creationcare.org from the Evangelical Environmental Network</div><div dir="ltr"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr">11. LutheransRestoringCreation.org 2022 Earth Day Virtual Worship</div><div dir="ltr"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr">12. CreationJustice.org Weathering the Storm with Faithful Climate Resilience stories. 2022 resource download includes Bible stories, sermon starters, a liturgy, and action steps. 10 pages. </div><div class="ydpa2a20a81yiv6331462103yqt5962579077" id="ydpa2a20a81yiv6331462103yqtfd46328"><div dir="ltr"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr"><b>April 24---May 1, 2022</b> (both Sundays) Soil and Water Stewardship Week theme is <b>"Healthy Soil:</b> <b>Healthy Life"</b> sponsored by the National Association of Conservation Districts, with many educational materials for pastors, Sunday Schools, etc. Go to nacd.net/general-resources/stewardship-and-education-materials/stewardship-outreach-materials-churches/ . In past years materials included a litany and program insert, educator and church leader guides, student booklets, placemats and activity guides, posters and bookmarks.</div><div dir="ltr"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr"><b>April 29, 2022, </b>Friday is Arbor Day (always the last Friday in April). The first national proposal for tree planting took place 150 years ago, 1872, in Nebraska, and since 1972 the Arbor Day Foundation has inspired people to plant, nurture and celebrate trees. Look for activities in your area for this 150th and 50th anniversary. The theme this year: <b>"Trees are Terrific...For Today and Tomorrow."</b> ArborDay.org </div><div dir="ltr"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr">------------------------------</div><div dir="ltr"><b><br clear="none" /></b></div><div dir="ltr"><b>More things you can do to help in the climate crisis</b> (List derived from the "100 Things You Can Do to Help in the Climate Crisis" column "Small Works" by Sarah Lazarovic in the Winter 2022 issue of <i>YES! Journalism for People Building a Better World, </i>with permission). To be continued in future columns. (Note: YES! magazine in 25 years has produced 4 periodicals per year=100 issues).</div><div dir="ltr"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr">Buy just enough</div><div dir="ltr">Live smaller</div><div dir="ltr">Nix "natural" gas</div><div dir="ltr">Green your banking</div><div dir="ltr">Green your investments</div><div dir="ltr">Pay a little extra to purchase clean energy from your utility</div><div dir="ltr">Plant for pollinators</div><div dir="ltr">Grow your own food</div><div dir="ltr">Write climate letters to your paper and call in to radio shows</div><div dir="ltr">Demand better climate coverage</div><div dir="ltr">Make climate an issue at local debates and council meetings</div><div dir="ltr">Minimize municipal red tape to implement net-zero solutions</div><div dir="ltr">Volunteer to make your community more resilient</div><div dir="ltr">Help those around you find low-carbon solutions</div><div dir="ltr">Adopt new technology that will inspire your neighbors</div><div dir="ltr">Ask your landlord to make green retrofits</div><div dir="ltr">Participate in peaceful civil disobedience (sorry to block the intersection but enjoy our climate dance!) </div><div dir="ltr">Learn from indigenous land guardians</div><div dir="ltr">Learn about the land you're on</div><div dir="ltr">Share emissions data (Psst!, We're the biggest emitters)</div><div dir="ltr">Hot new options: Solar, geothermal, a heat pump!</div><div dir="ltr">Donate to trusted climate organizations (Q.: R U Legit?, A.: Yep!)</div><div dir="ltr">Volunteer! Volunteer! Volunteer!</div><div dir="ltr">Organize! Organize! Organize!</div><div dir="ltr">Join! Join! Join!</div><div dir="ltr"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr">Some of the above are big, some are small; pick your thing, don't do them all. The crisis is large and often bleak, but find your strength with action each week.<br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr"><b>Upcoming Calendar Dates to Notice/Observe</b><br /></div><div dir="ltr"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr">April 10 Florida Gopher Tortoise Day</div><div dir="ltr">April 22 Earth Day</div><div dir="ltr">April 25 Defenders of Wildlife Anniversary, founded in 1947</div><div dir="ltr">April 24-May 1 Soil and Water Stewardship Week (nacd.net)</div><div dir="ltr">April 25 75th Anniversary of Theodore Roosevelt National Park</div><div dir="ltr">April 29 Arbor Day, began 150 years ago, 50 years ago the Foundation for it began</div><div dir="ltr"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr">May 6 115th Anniversary of Lassen Volcanic National Park</div><div dir="ltr">May 14 World Migratory Bird Day</div><div dir="ltr">May 15-21 Bear Awareness Week</div><div dir="ltr">May 20 Endangered Species Day</div><div dir="ltr">May 22 120th Anniversary of Crater National Park</div><div dir="ltr">May 23 World Turtle Day</div><div class="ydpa2a20a81yiv6331462103ydpdbea58d8yiv0199150245yqt7685293977" id="ydpa2a20a81yiv6331462103ydpdbea58d8yiv0199150245yqtfd96106"><div dir="ltr"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr">----------------------</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="ydpa2a20a81yiv6331462103yqt5962579077" id="ydpa2a20a81yiv6331462103yqtfd88767"><div class="ydpa2a20a81yiv6331462103ydpdbea58d8yiv0199150245yqt7685293977" id="ydpa2a20a81yiv6331462103ydpdbea58d8yiv0199150245yqtfd36439"><div class="ydpa2a20a81yiv6331462103ydpdbea58d8yiv0199150245ydpbfb23dbbyiv0406519996yqt0081575464" id="ydpa2a20a81yiv6331462103ydpdbea58d8yiv0199150245ydpbfb23dbbyiv0406519996yqtfd64901"><div dir="ltr"><br clear="none" /></div><div class="ydpa2a20a81yiv6331462103ydpdbea58d8yiv0199150245ydpbfb23dbbyiv0406519996ydpe701c84dyiv0537769967ydp6d4973f6signature"><div style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><div dir="ltr">Mike Ochs finds common ground between religion and politics in his concern for the environment.</div><div dir="ltr"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr">Politically he self-published the first "Greens Bibliography" of the English-language literature on the international Green Party movement (1989), the project for his Master of Liberal Arts in International Studies degree at Lock Haven (PA) University. He also helped plant the seeds for the Green Party of PA at that time, and remains a cyber-activist with it.</div><div dir="ltr"><br clear="none" /></div><div>For a monthly newsletter of the ecumenical United Churches of Lycoming County (PA), he has written the "Creation Corner Column" since 1997. It became a blog in 2011 at </div><div><br clear="none" /></div><div><a href="http://lutheransrestoringcreationblog.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" style="color: #196ad4;" target="_blank">http://lutheransrestoringcreationblog.blogspot.com/</a></div><div dir="ltr"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr">He received a B.A. degree from Gettysburg College in 1965.</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>Michael Ochshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02332989825816982880noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-263564892771726234.post-50031089271054792992022-02-02T08:50:00.000-08:002022-02-02T08:50:22.335-08:002/22 CCC: Lunar New Year, Anniversaries, Help Climate Crisis<p> </p><p><br /></p><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #26282a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><b><br clear="none" /></b></div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #26282a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><b><br clear="none" /></b></div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #26282a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><b> Creation Corner Column for February 2022</b></div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #26282a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><b><br clear="none" /></b></div><div data-setdir="false" dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #26282a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><b>Lunar New Year; Quotes, Anniversaries; Help the Climate Crisis; 2022 dates; books</b></div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #26282a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><b><br clear="none" /></b></div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #26282a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><b>February 2022 marks the Chinese New Year of the Tiger. </b>"Today there are as few as 3,200 tigers remaining in the wild, with some subspecies in rapid decline. Three tiger subspecies have become extinct in just the last century!" World Wildlife Fund.</div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #26282a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #26282a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><b>Quotations for Consideration</b></div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #26282a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><b><br clear="none" /></b></div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #26282a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">"The end we seek is a society at peace with itself, a society that can live with its conscience."</div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #26282a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.</div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #26282a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #26282a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">"One day the absurdity of the almost universal human belief in the slavery of other animals will be palpable. We shall then have discovered our souls and become worthier of sharing this planet with them." Martin Luther King, Jr. </div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #26282a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #26282a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">"We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them."<br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #26282a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Albert Einstein.</div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #26282a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #26282a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><b>Anniversaries</b></div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #26282a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><b><br clear="none" /></b></div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #26282a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><b>50th (1971-2021) for the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC)</b> that you may associate with the name Morris Dees, its founder. Based in Montgomery Alabama, its Vision Statement is "A world in which everyone can thrive and the ideals of equity, justice, and liberation are a reality for all."</div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #26282a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #26282a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Its mission statement is that "The SPLC is a catalyst for racial justice in the South and beyond, working in partnership with communities to dismantle white supremacy, strengthen intersectional movements, and advance the human rights of all people."</div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #26282a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #26282a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><b>Also celebrating 50 years is the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI)</b>, America's Food and Health Watchdog. CSPI "envisions a healthy population with reduced impact and burden of preventable diseases and an equitable food system that makes healthy, sustainable food accessible to all. CSPI values independence, scientific rigor, and transparency."</div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #26282a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #26282a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Among its 2022 priorities are emphases on food labeling, navigating the COVID crisis, improving access to nutritious food, additive dangers (salt, sugar, chemicals, dyes), food supply safeguards, etc.</div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #26282a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #26282a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><b>Ocean Conservancy notes its 50th year</b> in 2022. As a non-profit environmental advocacy group located in Washington, D.C., it helps formulate ocean policy at the federal and state levels, based on peer reviewed science. Projects include trash-free seas; coastal clean-ups; sea turtle, whale shark, and manatee protection; and initiatives to replace the single-use plastic retail bag, among other efforts..</div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #26282a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #26282a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><b>Defenders of Wildlife celebrates its 75th anniversary</b> this year. Founded in 1947, it is one of the country's leaders i science-based, results-oriented wildlife conservation. Its mission is to protect all native wild animals and plants in their natural communities. Headquartered in Washington, D.C., Defenders has field offices all around the country and represents nearly 1.8 members and supporters nationwide.</div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #26282a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #26282a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><b>Common Cause at its 50th year</b> continues to promote participatory democracy, acts against the spread of disinformation, helps shift the power away from wealthy special interests in formulating public policies, and works on behalf of people everywhere whose voices and perspectives too often get lost in the politics and actions of elected and appointed officials seeking to secure and consolidate unearned power.</div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #26282a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #26282a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><b>Greenpeace, on its 50th anniversary</b>, is known for not accepting money from corporations or government, thus permitting it to pursue peaceful protest, non-violent action, and creative communication in advocacy for people and the planet as it challenges the systems of power and privilege that result in pollution and the prioritization of profits.</div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #26282a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #26282a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Among its campaigns are those that put our economy on a climate-safe trajectory, protecting at least 30% of the high seas as ocean sanctuaries by 2030, and tackling the drivers of deforestation. One recent report is "The Climate Emergency Unpacked: How Consumer Goods Companies are Fueling Big Oil's Plastic Expansion".</div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #26282a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #26282a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">---------------------------</div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #26282a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #26282a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><b>Twenty-five things you can do to help in the climate crisis. </b>"Some are big, some are small; pick your thing, don't do them all. The crisis is large and often bleak, but find your strength with action each week."</div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #26282a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #26282a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Vote for real climate action.</div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #26282a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Hold your leaders accountable.</div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #26282a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Commend politicians when they support meaningful change.</div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #26282a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Share and contextualize important climate stories.</div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #26282a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Encourage friend to talk about the climate crisis.</div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #26282a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Amplify climate voices.</div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #26282a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Call out companies with poor environmental stewardship.</div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #26282a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Understand emissions.</div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #26282a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Tackle your biggest household emissions: fleet, heat, meat.</div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #26282a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Can you go far without a car?</div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #26282a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Push for public transit, safe streets, and more bike lanes.</div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #26282a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Hey Leader, clean the grid (please).</div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #26282a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Insulate, insulate, insulate.</div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #26282a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Plug your leaks.</div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #26282a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Change your lights.</div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #26282a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Fly less (or not at all).</div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #26282a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Eat less meat.</div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #26282a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Waste less food.</div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #26282a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Eat what's in season.</div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #26282a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Understand your carbon footprint, because individual action inspires systemic change (and because the average American emits 2.5x as much as someone in the United Kingdom).</div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #26282a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Replace clothes and devices less often.</div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #26282a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Mend before you spend.</div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #26282a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Maintain your things.</div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #26282a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Don't idle. Don't pollute.</div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #26282a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Combine trips.<br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #26282a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #26282a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">(List derived from the "100 Things You Can Do to Help in the Climate Crisis" column "Small Works" by Sarah Lazarovic in the Winter 2022 issue of <i>Yes! Journalism for People Building a Better World, </i>with permission). To be continued in future columns.</div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #26282a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #26282a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><b>Calendar Dates in 2022 Worthy of Consideration</b>, past, present, and future.</div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #26282a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #26282a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">January 10, 5th anniversary of Harriet Tubman National Historical Park</div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #26282a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">January 13, 5th anniversary of Birmingham Civil Rights National Monument</div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #26282a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">January 24, 100th Anniversary of Great Basin National Park</div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #26282a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #26282a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">February 11, International Day of Women and Girls in Science</div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #26282a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">February 22, World Spay Day</div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #26282a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">February 27, International Polar Bear Day</div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #26282a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #26282a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">March 3, World Wildlife day</div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #26282a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">March 8, International Women's Day</div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #26282a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">March 19, Save the Florida Panther Day<br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #26282a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">March 20-26 Lobo Week</div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #26282a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">March 22, World Water Day</div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #26282a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">March 30, Manatee Awareness Day</div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #26282a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #26282a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">---------------------------------------</div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #26282a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #26282a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><b>Climate Change Books Worth Considering</b></div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #26282a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><b><br clear="none" /></b></div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #26282a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">The Case for Climate Hope. Katharine Hayhoe.</div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #26282a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><b><br clear="none" /></b></div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #26282a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Fire and Flood: A People's History of Climate Change. Eugene Linden.</div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #26282a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #26282a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><b>Environmental Books Worth Considering</b></div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #26282a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><b><br clear="none" /></b></div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #26282a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Becoming Wild: How Animal Cultures Raise Families, Create Beauty, and Achieve Peace. Carl Safina.</div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #26282a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #26282a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel. Carl Safina.</div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #26282a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #26282a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">--------------------------------------</div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #26282a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><br clear="none" /></div><div class="ydpdd1252bayiv2608466437x_ydp22a00e86yiv3319404115ydp7575f8edyiv4811004620ydpab5db14ayiv8031186046ydp8e016733signature" style="background-color: white; color: #26282a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><div style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><div dir="ltr">Mike Ochs finds common ground between religion and politics in his concern for the environment.</div><div dir="ltr"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr">Politically he self-published the first "Greens Bibliography" of the English-language literature on the international Green Party movement (1989), the project for his Master of Liberal Arts in International Studies degree at Lock Haven (PA) University. He also helped plant the seeds for the Green Party of PA at that time, and remains a cyber-activist with it.</div><div dir="ltr"><br clear="none" /></div><div>For a monthly newsletter of the ecumenical United Churches of Lycoming County (PA), he has written the "Creation Corner Column" since 1997. It became a blog in 2011 at </div><div><br clear="none" /></div><div><a href="http://lutheransrestoringcreationblog.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" style="color: #196ad4;" target="_blank">http://lutheransrestoringcreationblog.blogspot.com/</a></div><div dir="ltr"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr">He received a B.A. degree from Gettysburg College in 1965.</div></div></div>Michael Ochshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02332989825816982880noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-263564892771726234.post-80080886068431047932022-01-02T10:23:00.001-08:002022-01-02T10:23:41.869-08:001/'22 CCC: New Year Quotes, a MOOC, Creation Care, Pandemic Lit<p> <b style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> January 2022 Creation Corner Column</b></p><div data-setdir="false" dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><b> New Year's Resolutions/Quotations; MOOC; Creation Care Viewpoint; Pandemic Lit.</b></div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><br /></div><div data-setdir="false" dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><div><div class="ydpc672212ayiv5781574901ydp7fec8efayahoo-style-wrap"><b>Quotations for Resolutions in the New Year</b><br clear="none" /></div><div class="ydpc672212ayiv5781574901ydpefbe4fcayahoo_quoted" id="ydpc672212ayiv5781574901ydpefbe4fcayahoo_quoted_1604284827"><div style="color: #26282a;"><div id="ydpc672212ayiv5781574901ydpefbe4fcayiv2489911968"><div class="ydpc672212ayiv5781574901ydpefbe4fcayiv2489911968ydp42d41253yahoo-style-wrap"><div id="ydpc672212ayiv5781574901ydpefbe4fcayiv2489911968ydp42d41253yiv2813019010"><div class="ydpc672212ayiv5781574901ydpefbe4fcayiv2489911968ydp42d41253yiv2813019010ydpae9c7cbayahoo-style-wrap"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;"><b><br clear="none" /></b></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;">"Drop the Patents" sign on a carboard coffin carried during a demonstration against Covid-19 patents in London on October 12, 2021, also signs "A Grave Injustice" and "Greed Kills."</div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;"><b><br clear="none" /></b></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;">"You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. You have to decide what kind of difference you want to make." Jane Goodall, UN Messenger of Peace. Quoted in the 12/21 newsletter from the Sierra Club Pennsylvania Chapter.</div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;">"Everything that is done in the world is done by hope." Martin Luther. First quote in the adult coloring book issued by the (Jacques) Cousteau Society.</div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;">"In the Face of Climate Change, We Must Act So That We Can Feel Hopeful---Not the Other Way Around." Katharine Hayhoe, Christian and Climate Scientist, quoted in a recent letter from CERES (Coalition for Environmentally Responsible Economies).</div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;">"We seek a world free of war and the threat of war. We seek a society with equity and justice for all. We seek a community where every person's potential may be fulfilled. We seek an earth restored." Friends Committee on National Legislation (fcnl.org).</div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;">"What God requires of us is that we not stop trying." Bayard Rustin (1912-1987).</div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;">"If you assume that there is no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, that there are opportunities to change things, then there is a possibility that you can contribute to making a better world. The choice is yours." Noam Chomsky.</div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;">"Put your heart, mind, and soul into even you smallest acts. This is the secret of success." Swami Sivananda (1887-1963).</div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;">"You are never too small to make a difference." Greta Thunberg, young Swedish climate activist.</div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;">"The most important thing you can do to fight climate change: talk about it." Katharine Hayhoe.</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><b>Free Online Course</b><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><b><br /></b></div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">"Religions and Ecology: Restoring the Earth Community" can be found at fore.yale.edu/online-courses. It is what is known as a <b>MOOC (Massive Open Online Course)</b>. This one is sponsored by the Forum on Religion and Ecology, based at Yale University, hosted by Mary Evelyn Tucker and John Grim (formerly at Bucknell University in Pennsylvania, where I first met them).</div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><br /></div><div data-setdir="false" dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><div dir="ltr"><b>A retired ELCA pastor's view of creation care</b>:</div><div dir="ltr"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr">"When God spoke creation into being, God's grace was woven into the world's fabric. Creation's ecology, which is just right for sustaining life, is God's grace made flesh. Yet as scientists have shown, a habitable planet is a rare occurrence. We believe that amazing occurrence is a gift from a loving God. This giftedness of a just-right creation also is God's grace.</div><div dir="ltr">We sing our praise of God for this just-right planet. But we live out our praise as we tend Earth's diverse life, so that creation flourishes. Life serving life is the best praise."</div><div dir="ltr"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr">From the December 31, 2021 meditation by writer Wendy Wirth-Brock, in "The Word in Season" from Augsburg Fortress Publishers.</div></div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><div dir="ltr"><b>Announcements</b></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr">The annual report of the Susquehanna Greenway Partnership, linking river towns with education and outreach, land and water trails, may be found at their web site susquehannagreenway.org .</div><div dir="ltr"><br clear="none" /></div><div data-setdir="false" dir="ltr">From the Archives: The Spring 2007 issue of <i>MS. Magazine</i> featured a cover story, "Heat's On---We Respond: Rising Up To Stop Global Warming" with a story by Laura Orlando, "The Melting Point."<br /></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div></div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><b>New Titles re: COVID-19 Pandemic</b><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><b><br /></b></div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">After the Virus: Lessons from the Past for a Better Future. Hilary Cooper and Simon Szreter.</div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><br /></div><div data-setdir="false" dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Breathtaking: Inside the NHS in a Time of Pandemic. Rachel Clarke.</div><div data-setdir="false" dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><br /></div><div data-setdir="false" dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">The Covid Consensus: The New Politics of Global Inequality. Toby Green.</div><div data-setdir="false" dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><br /></div><div data-setdir="false" dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Covid by Numbers: Making Sense of the Pandemic with Data. David Spiegelhalter and Anthony Masters.</div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr">The Enablers: How Team Trump Flunked the Pandemic and Failed America. Barbara Kellerman.<br /></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div data-setdir="false" dir="ltr">Failures of State: The Inside Story of Britain's Battle with Coronavirus. Jonathan Calvert and George Arbuthnott.</div><div data-setdir="false" dir="ltr"><br /></div><div data-setdir="false" dir="ltr">Intensive Care: A GP, a Community & a Pandemic. Gavin Francis.</div><div data-setdir="false" dir="ltr"><br /></div><div data-setdir="false" dir="ltr">Life Support: Diary of an ICU Doctor on the Frontline of the Covid Crisis. JIm Down.</div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr">New Pandemics, Old Politics: Two Hundred Years of War on Disease and Its Alternatives. Alex de Waal.</div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr">Plagues Upon the Earth: Disease and the Course of Human History. Kyle Harper.</div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr">Shutdown: How Covid Shook the World's Economy. Adam Tooze.</div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div data-setdir="false" dir="ltr">Spike: The Virus Vs. The :People---The Inside Story. Sir Jeremy Farrar and Anjana Ahuja.</div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr">The Spirit of Green: The Economics of Collisions and Contagions in a Crowded World. William D. Nordhaus.</div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr">------------------------------------------------------30------------------------------------------------------------</div></div>Michael Ochshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02332989825816982880noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-263564892771726234.post-73195986697412513412021-12-01T08:20:00.004-08:002021-12-01T08:21:51.323-08:0012/21 CCC: Quotes, Enviro Actions, COVID-19, Announcements<p> <b style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> Creation Corner Column for December 2012</b></p><div data-setdir="false" dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><b><br /></b></div><div data-setdir="false" dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><b> Notable Quotations, Environmental Actions, COVID-19 books, Announcements</b></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr"><b>Quotations Worth Noting</b><br /></div><div dir="ltr"><b><br /></b></div><div dir="ltr">In 1989 TIME magazine chose the endangered earth as "Planet of the Year" in lieu of the usual "Person of the Year."</div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr">In 2021 TIME entitled their Nov. 8-15 issue primary contents as "Climate is Everything."</div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div data-setdir="false" dir="ltr">The climate battle is "a fight for our lives, an existential battle and we need to behave like it...and for some people in the world it already is absolutely existential: they're losing their lives." John Kerry, United States climate envoy to the 26th Conference of the Parties (COP 26), the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, quoted in TIME magazine of Nov. 8-15, 2022.</div><div data-setdir="false" dir="ltr"><br /></div><div data-setdir="false" dir="ltr">Among the COP26 goals are (according to the same issue of TIME):</div><div data-setdir="false" dir="ltr"><br /></div><div data-setdir="false" dir="ltr">1. Restore and protect the ecosystems that make human life possible.</div><div data-setdir="false" dir="ltr">2. Ensure a rapid and equitable transition away from coal.</div><div data-setdir="false" dir="ltr">3. Make climate solutions profitable.</div><div data-setdir="false" dir="ltr">4. Shift the global vehicle fleet from gas-powered to electric.</div><div data-setdir="false" dir="ltr">5. Finalize the Paris rule book to guarantee the integrity of carbon trading.</div><div data-setdir="false" dir="ltr">6. Persuade the world to invest in renewable energy.</div><div data-setdir="false" dir="ltr">7. Help vulnerable cities become more resilient.</div><div data-setdir="false" dir="ltr">8. Urge the developed world to share the burden.</div><div dir="ltr"><b><br /></b></div><div dir="ltr">"Human beings (said Steve Jobs, 1955-2011) have a responsibility to be guardians of the earth for future generations, to pay attention to problems and do something about them."</div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr"><b>Action for the Environment</b></div><div dir="ltr"><b><br /></b></div><div dir="ltr">If you seek to help your church, temple or mosque to express care for the creation, consider "googling" these helpful web sites:</div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr">10 steps to greening your church</div><div dir="ltr">10 tips to help your church go green</div><div dir="ltr">7 simple steps to green your church</div><div dir="ltr">Greening your church: 9 stewardship strategies that won't break the budget</div><div dir="ltr">Greening your church: Getting started and doing the basics</div><div dir="ltr">20 ways to get your church thinking green, going green</div><div dir="ltr">10 eco-friendly practices you can make at church to help the planet</div><div dir="ltr"><b><br /></b></div><div dir="ltr">All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis. Edited by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson & Katharine K. Wilkinson.</div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr">Our Changing Menu: Climate Change and the Foods We Love and Need. Carrie Koplinka-Loehr, Danielle L. Eiseman, and Michael P. Hoffman.</div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr">Sustainability Made Simple: Small Changes for Big Impact (updated edition). Rosaly Byrd and Lauren DeMates.</div><div dir="ltr"><b><br /></b></div><div dir="ltr"><b>New Titles re: COVID-19 Pandemic</b></div><div dir="ltr"><b><br /></b></div><div dir="ltr">After Lockdown: A Metamorphosis. Bruno Latour.</div><div dir="ltr"><b><br /></b></div><div dir="ltr">Coronavirus Criminals and Pandemic Profiteers: Accountability for Those Who Caused the Crisis. John Nichols.</div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr">Democracy in the Time of Coronavirus. Danielle Allen.</div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr">The First Shot: The Epic Rivalries and Heroic Science Behind the Race to the Coronavirus Vaccine. Brendan Borrell.</div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr">The Long Year: A 2020 Reader. Edited by Thomas J. Sugrue and Caitlin Zaloom.</div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr">World War C: Lessons From the Covid-19 Pandemic and How to Prepare for the Next One. Sanjay Gupta, M.D.</div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr"><b>Announcements</b></div><div dir="ltr"><b><br /></b></div><div dir="ltr">Evangelical Christian and atmospheric scientist Katharine Hayhoe has been appointed as the new chief scientist for The Nature Conservancy. See her article, "A Climate For All Of Us" in the winter 2021 issue of "Nature Conservancy" magazine, nature.org/magazine .</div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr">The 2022 Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agriculture Conference is Feb. 10-12, 2022. pasafarming.org/conference .Virtual pre-conference January 4-28, 2022.</div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr">----------------------------------------------------------30---------------------------------------------------------</div></div>Michael Ochshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02332989825816982880noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-263564892771726234.post-10193375718822208162021-11-01T07:42:00.001-07:002021-11-01T07:42:36.099-07:0011/21 CCC: Faith for Earth, Climate, Pandemic<p> <b style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> Lutherans Restoring Creation Blog </b></p><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><b><br /></b></div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><b> 11/21 Creation Corner Column</b></div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><b><br /></b></div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><b> Faith for Earth/Climate Crisis/Pandemic</b><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><b><br /></b></div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><b><br /></b></div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><b>Ecology and Religion</b></div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><b><br /></b></div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><b>Faith for Earth: A Call for Action. Prepared in advance of the UN IPCC Glasgow Scotland meeting 10/31-11/12, this 57 page book is produced by the UN Environmental Program and the Parliament of World Religions. Available on-line.<br /></b></div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><b><br /></b></div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Sacred Earth, Sacred Soul: Celtic Wisdom for Reawakening to What Our Souls Know and Healing the World. John Philip Newell.</div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><b><br /></b></div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Saving Us: A Climate Scientist's Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World. Katharine Hayhoe. (also see "The New Yorker" interview with her at "How to talk about climate change across the political divide"). Haydoe is an atmospheric scientist and evangelical Christian.</div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><div><div dir="ltr"><b>Climate Crisis Books</b></div><div dir="ltr"><b><br /></b></div><div dir="ltr">The Atlas of a Changing Climate. Brian Buma.</div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr">The Atlas of Disappearing Places: Our Coasts and Oceans in the Climate Crisis. Christina Conklin and Marina Psaros.</div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr">Believers: Making a Life at the End of the World. Lisa Wells.</div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr">The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times. Jane Goodall and Douglas Abrams.</div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr">The Climate of History in a Planetary Age. Dipesh Chakrabarty.</div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr">Deep Adaptation: Navigating the Realities of Climate Chaos. Edited by Jem Bendell and Rupert Read.<br /></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr">Electrify: An Optimist's Playbook for our Clean Energy Future. Saul Griffith.</div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr">The Environmentalist's Dilemma: Promise and Peril in an Age of Climate Crisis. Arno Kopecky.</div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr">Gasoline Dreams: Waking Up from Petroculture. Simon Orpana.</div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr">How to Talk to a Science Denier: Conversations with Flat Earthers, Climate Deniers and Others Who Defy Reason. Lee Mcintyre.</div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr">The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis. Amitav Ghosh.<br /></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr">Our Biggest Experiment: An Epic History of the Climate Crisis. Alice Bell.<br /></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr">Overheated: How Capitalism Broke the Planet---and How We Can Fight Back. Kate Aronoff.<br /></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr">Paradise: One Town's Struggle to Survive an American Wildfire. Lizzie Johnson.</div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr">Psychological Roots of the Climate Crisis: Neoliberal Exceptionalism and the Culture of Uncare. Sally Weintrobe.</div></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr">They Knew: The US Federal Government's Fifty-Year Role in Causing the Climate Crisis. James Gustave Speth.</div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr"><div>White Skin, Black Fuel: On the Danger of Fossil Fascism. Andreas Malm.<br /></div><br /></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><b>Plagues/Pandemics/Covid-19 Books</b></div><div dir="ltr"><b><br /></b></div><div dir="ltr">After the Virus: Lessons from the Past for a Better Future. Hilary Cooper and Simon Szreter.</div><div dir="ltr"><b><br /></b></div><div dir="ltr">The Biomedical Empire: Lessons Learned from the COVID-19 Pandemic. Barbara Katz Rothman.</div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr">Chronic: The Hidden Cause of the Autoimmune Pandemic and How to Get Healthy Again. Steven Phillips, M.D.</div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr">Coronavirus Politics: The Comparative Politics and Policy of COVID-19. Edited by Scott L. Greer et al. </div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr">The Enablers: How Team Trump Flunked the Pandemic and Failed America. Barbara Kellerman.</div><div dir="ltr"><b><br /></b></div><div dir="ltr">To End a Plague: America's Fight to Defeat Aids in Africa. Emily Bass.</div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr">Global Health Security: A Blueprint for the Future. Lawrence O. Gostin.</div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr">The Great Smallpox Epidemic of 1775-1782. Elizabeth A. Fenn.</div><div dir="ltr"><b><br /></b></div><div dir="ltr">House Arrest: Diary selections from the Pandemic Year March 2020 to March 2021. Alan Bennett.</div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr">How Bad Thinking Happens to Good People: How Philosophy Can Save Us from Ourselves. Steven Nadler and Lawrence Shapiro.</div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr">Maladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine. Jim Downs.</div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr">Misunderstanding Health: Making Sense of America's Broken Health Care System. Rohit Khanna.</div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr">The New Normal: A Roadmap to Resilience in the Pandemic Era. Jennifer Ashton, M.D.</div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr">New Pandemics, Old Politics: Two Hundred Years of War on Disease and its Alternatives. Alex de Waal.</div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr">The Origins of COVID-19: China and Global Capitalism. Li Zhang.<br /></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">The Palliative Society; Pain Today. Byung-Chul Han.<br /></div><br /></div><div dir="ltr">Plagues Upon the Earth: Disease and the Course of Human History. Kyle Harper.<br /></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr">Pox Americana: The Great Smallpox Epidemic of 1775-82. Elizabeth A. Fenn.</div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr">The Precariat: The New Dangerous Class (Special Covid-19 edition). Guy Standing.</div></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr">Preventable: The Inside Story of How Leadership Failures, Politics, and Selfishness Doomed the U.S. Coronavirus Response. Andy Slavitt.</div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr">Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World. Fareed Zakaira.</div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr">Uncontrolled Spread: Why COVID-19 Crushed Us and How We Can Defeat the Next Pandemic. Scott Gottlieb, M.D., former FDA Commissioner.</div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div>-------------------------------------------------------30--------------------------------------------------------------</div></div>Michael Ochshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02332989825816982880noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-263564892771726234.post-24578872673673889922021-10-03T10:25:00.000-07:002021-10-03T10:25:06.610-07:0010/21 CCC: UN Climate Change Conf. of 11/21, Scotland<p> </p><p><br /></p><div data-setdir="false" dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><div><div dir="ltr"><b> Creation Corner Column, October 2021</b></div><div dir="ltr"><b><br /></b></div><div dir="ltr"><b> Thoughts preceding COP 26 (UN Climate Change Conference)</b></div><div dir="ltr"><b><br /></b></div><div dir="ltr"><b>COP26 </b>(The Conference of the Parties), another name for it is the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference, begins in Glasgow, Scotland, next month, the purpose of which is to "ratchet up ambition to mitigate climate change."</div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr">As it gets underway, the church may also ask itself what it is doing. Here are some suggestions for parishioners. </div><div dir="ltr"><b><br /></b></div><div data-setdir="false" dir="ltr"><b>Ideas for upholding the integrity of the creation, derived from Leah Schade's book, "For the Beauty of the Earth: A Lenten Devotional", and its list of 50 Ways to Celebrate Earth Day. Chalice Press, 2019. <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;"> https://chalicepress.com/products/for-the-beauty-of-the-earth-lent-devotional-perfect-bound </span></b></div><div dir="ltr"><b><br /></b></div><div dir="ltr">Call your local legislators today and ask their position on climate change. Tell them you are a Christian who votes on climate issues and ask them to support climate legislation.</div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr">Make a sign that you could carry or post, such as "Christians Care About Climate." "All God's Children Deserve a Healthy Planet." "If you mess it up, clean it up---Love, God."</div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr">Adjust your thermostat one degree to save on either heating or cooling costs (depending on where you live" and lessen your environmental impact.</div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr">During the prayers of the people, pray for Planet Earth and ask for people to be be united in caring for our common home.</div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr">Call your denominational head office and ask if they have divested from fossil fuels. If the answer is yes, thank them. If the answer is no, ask why. Tell them why this is important to you as a member of the church.</div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr">Borrow a copy of Pope Francis' Encyclical <i>Laudato Si' </i>from your local library or listen to it as an audio book. Notice the way he frames caring for Creation using theology, scripture, and the teachings of the church.</div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr">Find out what environmental legislation is currently under consideration in Congress. Call your representative and senators and encourage them to support the strongest protections for the planet.</div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr">Write a prayer of lament, confession, or intercession regarding Creation. Share it with your pastor and ask if it could be read at the service on Sunday.</div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr">Call your local mayor's office and ask if there is a task force for addressing climate preparedness. If there is, thank them and ask how you can help. If not, ask why. Share with them what you've learned about how climate change will likely affect your community.</div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr">If you have investments, look at where you have placed your money. Have you divested from fossil fuels? Have you invested in clean energy firms? How might you "green" your financial portfolio?</div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr">Line dry your clothes to minimize the use of your electric dryer. The average household can save up to $200 per year and reduce their carbon footprint by 2,400 pounds.</div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr">Reach out to organizations such as GreenFaith, Blessed Tomorrow, and Interfaith Power and Light to join environmental efforts with a wider coalition of interfaith religious climate activists.</div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr">Make a donation to a local environmental organization. Make it in honor of a special child in your life.</div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr">Air pollution, environmental toxins, and extreme weather events exact a heavy toll on neighborhoods already struggling with poverty, crumbling infrastructure, lack of access to good healthcare and nutrition, and neglected education systems. Connect with the Poor People's Campaign to learn more about how you can join with others to address the intersections of poverty, race, and environmental issues.</div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div data-setdir="false" dir="ltr"><span style="color: black;">Pioneering environmentalist Rachel Carson was born on May 27, 1907. Borrow a copy of her book </span><i style="color: black;">Silent Spring </i><span style="color: black;">from your local library or listen to it as an audiobook. What points of resonance do you notice from when she wrote it 1962? Think about why her work is still so relevant today and what she can teach us.</span><br /></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr">The book <i>Creation-Crisis Preaching: Ecology, Theology, and the Pulpit </i>helps pastors craft sermons that address environmental issues from a biblical and theological perspective. Purchase a copy to give to your pastor. Of if you are a clergyperson, get a copy for yourself to help you "green" your preaching.</div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr">--------------------<br /></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr">From <b>The Green Bible: Understand the Bible's Powerful Message for the Earth </b>come recommended actions for individuals and families (with general emphases, and those for oceans, health, endangered creatures, land conservation, how to be a deep green family and practical tips to get started). Here are some action ideas for churches:</div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr">Help your church hold a "Creation Sunday" worship service.</div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr">Start a Bible study on what the Bible says about the environment. Consider inviting people outside the church.</div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr">Get your church to conduct an energy audit and implement improvements.</div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr">Become a "sister congregation" with a church in a community where toxic waste or pollution threatens the health of church members.</div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr">Set up a booth at an environmental fair or Earth Day event, or plan one for your church (such as on St. Francis Day, yearly on October 4).</div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr">Adopt a local stream, park, or roadway for cleanup, monitoring, or restoration.</div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr">Identify an important environmental issue and visit or write letters to local, state, or national leaders about it.</div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr">Plant trees, shrubs, and perennials in places where shade and beauty are needed at your church.</div></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div data-setdir="false" dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">-----------------</div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr"><b>Preparations for the COP26 November event in Glasgow, Scotland include:</b></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr">A Joint Statement, "Listen to the cry of the Earth" issued by leaders of the Roman Catholic Church (1.3 billion members, Pope Francis), Orthodox Church (85 million members, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I), and the Anglican Church (85 million members, Canterbury Archbishop Justin Welby). </div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr">Youth4Climate: Driving Ambition (Pre-COP Youth event) with such emphases as sustainable recovery, nature-based solutions, empowering and protecting the most vulnerable, driving innovation, entrepreneurship, adaptation and resilience, ambition, youth and local action.</div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr">In the U.S., in an effort to influence domestic policy, 3400 faith leaders have signed on to a petition from Interfaith Power & Light, asking for federal investments in expanding clean and renewable energy and modernizing our electric grid; electrifying transportation and expanding public transit; providing clean water infrastructure for all communities; and investing with justice.</div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr">The U.S. 2021 Climate Action Plan advanced by the NRDC (Natural Resources Defense Council, with 3 million members and on-line activists) preceded the Biden administration pledge to slash greenhouse gas emissions by at least 50 percent by the end of the decade, and to conserve 30 percent of our lands and waters by 2030.</div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr">Food and Water Action Watch advocates three solutions: a safe, sustainable food system; the right so clean affordable water; and powering the clean energy revolution.</div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr">The Environmental Defense Fund is spearheading reforms that will force businesses to disclose the growing financial risks of climate change. ExxonMobil shareholders voted to elect three new board members who have pledged to move the company away from fossil fuel production and toward a low-carbon future.</div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr">Climate displacement, potentially wiping out 15 percent of Pacific Islands with a one meter rise in the sea level, needs to be addressed at its cause by dramatically reducing greenhouse gases. Such displacement strategies need be devised by developed countries, and are being advanced by the Ocean Conservancy.</div></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr">--------------------------<br /></div><br /></div><div data-setdir="false" dir="ltr"><b>"The earth groans in travail" Romans 8:22</b></div><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">------------------------</div><div class="ydpb5a36b24signature" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><div style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><div dir="ltr">Mike Ochs finds common ground between religion and politics in his concern for the environment.</div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr">Politically he self-published the first "Greens Bibliography" of the English-language literature on the international Green Party movement (1989), the project for his Master of Liberal Arts in International Studies degree at Lock Haven (PA) University. He also helped plant the seeds for the Green Party of PA at that time, and remains a cyber-activist with it.</div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div>For a monthly newsletter of the ecumenical United Churches of Lycoming County (PA), he has written the "Creation Corner Column" since 1997. It became a blog in 2011 at </div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://lutheransrestoringcreationblog.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow" style="color: #196ad4;" target="_blank">http://lutheransrestoringcreationblog.blogspot.com/</a></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr">He received a B.A. degree from Gettysburg College in 1965.</div></div></div>Michael Ochshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02332989825816982880noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-263564892771726234.post-41987150131385520132021-09-02T09:00:00.004-07:002021-09-02T09:00:38.589-07:009/21 CCC: Religious Context for "Code Red for Humanity"<p> <b style="background-color: white; color: #26282a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> Creation Corner Column 9/21</b></p><div class="ydpa7fbcb0eyahoo-style-wrap" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><div><b style="color: #26282a;"><br /></b></div><div><b style="color: #26282a;">A Religious Context for Reading the UN IPCC report characterized as a "Code Red for Humanity"</b><span style="color: #26282a;">.</span><br /></div></div><div class="ydpebe2777dyahoo_quoted" id="ydpebe2777dyahoo_quoted_1546698043" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><div style="color: #26282a; font-size: 13px;"><div id="ydpebe2777dyiv1626982967"><div class="ydpebe2777dyiv1626982967ydp787b71bayahoo_quoted" id="ydpebe2777dyiv1626982967ydp787b71bayahoo_quoted_1184246330"><div id="ydpebe2777dyiv1626982967ydp787b71bayiv4938895781"><div class="ydpebe2777dyiv1626982967ydp787b71bayiv4938895781yqt5211280888" id="ydpebe2777dyiv1626982967ydp787b71bayiv4938895781yqtfd02769"><div class="ydpebe2777dyiv1626982967ydp787b71bayiv4938895781ydp1be6af35yahoo_quoted" id="ydpebe2777dyiv1626982967ydp787b71bayiv4938895781ydp1be6af35yahoo_quoted_1406121548"><div id="ydpebe2777dyiv1626982967ydp787b71bayiv4938895781ydp1be6af35yiv7277377890"><div class="ydpebe2777dyiv1626982967ydp787b71bayiv4938895781ydp1be6af35yiv7277377890ydp3cfacb6yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-size: 16px;"><div dir="ltr"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr">Christians may regard the "first commandment" as that of Genesis 2:15.</div><div><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"> Various interpretations are that we humans were placed by God in the Garden of Eden...</div><div dir="ltr"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr">"...to tend it and watch over it." New Living translation</div><div dir="ltr"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr">"...to tend it and keep it." New King James version</div><div dir="ltr"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr">"...to take care of it and to look after it." Contemporary English version</div><div dir="ltr"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr">"...to serve it and to keep it." Literal Standard version and also Young's literal translation</div><div dir="ltr"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr">"...to care for it and to maintain it. New English Translation </div><div dir="ltr"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr">"...so that it would be attended and preserved... Catholic Public Domain version</div><div dir="ltr"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr">This leaves no doubt as to what our first responsibility is. The question is: Is there is a gap between what we now know about climate change, and what we do about it?</div></div><div dir="ltr"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr">A significant contribution to our understanding may be found in<b> The Green</b> <b>Bible: Understanding the Bible's Powerful Message for the Earth</b> (2008) that is a "green-letter" edition, highlighting 1000 verses, and included lists of denominational environmental programs, statements, activities, and faith-based organizations. Over 100 actions are advised for individuals, families, churches, etc., for people who want to take practical steps to get started on turning their words into deeds.</div><div dir="ltr"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr">----------------</div><div dir="ltr"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr">Some updated web sites for churches (kindly supplied by the PA Interfaith Power and Light) are:</div><div dir="ltr"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">IPL Cool Congregation Startup Kit</span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><a href="http://www.coolcongregations.org/start-up-kit/" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" style="color: #196ad4;" target="_blank">http://www.coolcongregations.org/start-up-kit/</a></span></div><div dir="ltr"> </div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">EPA Energy Star for Congregations Workbook</span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><a href="https://www.interfaithpowerandlight.org/epa-energy-star-for-congregations-workbook/" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" style="color: #338fe9;" target="_blank">https://www.interfaithpowerandlight.org/epa-energy-star-for-congregations-workbook/</a></span></div><div dir="ltr"> </div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Clean Energy Investment Resources</span></div><div dir="ltr"><div class="ydpebe2777dyiv1626982967ydp787b71bayiv4938895781ydp1be6af35yiv7277377890ydp46a47516yiv9175372483v1ydp42884b9cyiv1918561753entry-content"><a href="https://www.interfaithpowerandlight.org/clean-energy-investment-resources/" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" style="color: #196ad4; font-size: 12pt;" target="_blank">https://www.interfaithpowerandlight.org/clean-energy-investment-resources/</a></div></div><div dir="ltr"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr"><div class="ydpebe2777dyiv1626982967ydp787b71bayiv4938895781ydp1be6af35yiv7277377890ydp46a47516yiv9175372483v1ydp42884b9cyiv1918561753entry-content"><a class="ydpebe2777dyiv1626982967enhancr_card_0676154623" href="https://paipl.us/2021/09/01/what-can-congregations-do-to-offset-their-carbon-footprint-fossil-fuel-use-greenhouse-gas-emissions-and-climate-change-impact/" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" style="color: #338fe9; outline-width: 0px !important;" target="_blank">What can congregations do to offset their carbon footprint, fossil fuel use / greenhouse gas emissions, and climate change impact? – Pennsylvania Interfaith Power & Light</a><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr"><div><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr">-----------</div><div dir="ltr"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr">Also see the UN IPCC report, found at <a class="ydpebe2777dyiv1626982967" href="https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg1/" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" style="color: #196ad4;" target="_blank">https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg1/</a><div class="ydpebe2777dyiv1626982967yqt7860681808" id="ydpebe2777dyiv1626982967yqtfd04391"><br clear="none" /></div></div><div class="ydpebe2777dyiv1626982967yqt7860681808" id="ydpebe2777dyiv1626982967yqtfd86532"><div>---------<br /></div><div><br clear="none" /></div></div></div></div></div><div class="ydpebe2777dyiv1626982967yqt7860681808" id="ydpebe2777dyiv1626982967yqtfd07186"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><b>Recent Environmental Books</b></div><div dir="ltr"><b><br clear="none" /></b></div><div dir="ltr">The World We Need: Stories and Lessons from America's Unsung Environmental Movement. Edited by Audrea Lim.</div><div dir="ltr"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr"><b>Books by Stan Cox of The Land Institute in Salina Kansas</b></div><div dir="ltr"><b><br clear="none" /></b></div><div dir="ltr">The Path to a Livable Future: Forging a New Politics to Fight Climate Change, Racism, and the Next Pandemic, 2021.</div><div dir="ltr"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr">The Green New Deal and Beyond: Ending the Climate Emergency While We Still Can, 2020.</div><div dir="ltr"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr">Losing Our Cool: Uncomfortable Truths About Our Air-Conditioned World, 2010.</div><div dir="ltr"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr">How the World Breaks: Life in Catastrophe's Path, from the Caribbean to Siberia, 2016, with Paul Cox.</div><div dir="ltr"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr"><b><br clear="none" /></b></div><div dir="ltr"><b>Pandemic Book Titles</b></div><div dir="ltr"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">Our Malady: Lessons in Liberty from a Hospital Diary. Timothy Snyder.</div><div dir="ltr"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr">Until Proven Safe: The History and Future of Quarantine. Geoff Manaugh and Nicola Twilley.</div></div><div dir="ltr"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr"><b>Religion and Ecology Books</b></div><div dir="ltr"><b><br clear="none" /></b></div><div dir="ltr">For the Beauty of the Earth: A Lenten Devotional. Leah D. Schade. In addition to a devotional guide from Ash Wednesday to Resurrection Sunday, this 58-page paperback includes 50 practical steps (practices, activities, and ideas) to "Make Earth Day Everyday" that are useful throughout the year.</div></div></div><br clear="none" /></div>-------------------------</div></div><div class="ydpebe2777dyiv1626982967yqt7860681808" id="ydpebe2777dyiv1626982967yqtfd48314"><div><br clear="none" /></div><div class="ydpebe2777dyiv1626982967ydp787b71bayiv4938895781ydp1be6af35yiv7277377890ydp3cfacb6signature"><div style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><div dir="ltr">Mike Ochs finds common ground between religion and politics in his concern for the environment.</div><div dir="ltr"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr">Politically he self-published the first "Greens Bibliography" of the English-language literature on the international Green Party movement (1989), the project for his Master of Liberal Arts in International Studies degree at Lock Haven (PA) University. He also helped plant the seeds for the Green Party of PA at that time, and remains a cyber-activist with it.</div><div dir="ltr"><br clear="none" /></div><div>For a monthly newsletter of the ecumenical United Churches of Lycoming County (PA), he has written the "Creation Corner Column" since 1997. It became a blog in 2011 at </div><div><br clear="none" /></div><div><a href="http://lutheransrestoringcreationblog.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" style="color: #196ad4;" target="_blank">http://lutheransrestoringcreationblog.blogspot.com/</a></div><div dir="ltr"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr">He received a B.A. degree from Gettysburg College in 1965.</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>Michael Ochshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02332989825816982880noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-263564892771726234.post-49631006335364073842021-08-01T08:00:00.000-07:002021-08-01T08:00:24.449-07:008/21 CCC: Summer Reading Part 2; Seasons of Creation<p> </p><p><br /></p><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><div><div><div 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Heather Reisman and Laurie David.</div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;">Letters From Animals: To the people who think they're just beasts. Frederic Brremaud, art by Giovanni Rigano. Adapted from wildlife conservationist Allain Bourgrain Dubourg's celebrated book. (Intended for middle-aged readers aged 8-14 or above. It may contain scenes of light intensity. Includes information on how to care for animals in your neighborhood).<br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;">Living with Yards: Negotiating Nature and the Habits of Home. Ursula Lang.<br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;">Losing Eden: Our Fundamental Need for the Natural World---and Its Ability to Heal Body and Soul. Lucy Jones.</div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;">Loving Animals: On Bestiality, Zoophilia and Post-Human Love. Joanna Bourke.</div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;">The Lure of the Beach: A Global History. Robert C. Ritchie.</div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;">The Madhouse Effect: How Climate Change Denial is Threatening Our Planet, Destroying Our Politics, and Driving Us Crazy. Michael E. Mann and Tom Toles. 2016.</div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;">Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans From Colonial Times to the Present. Harriet A. Washington.</div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;">Migrations: A Novel. Charlotte McConaghy. climate fiction.</div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;">Mission Economy: A Moonshot Guide to Changing Capitalism. Mariana Mazzucato.</div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;">Moving Water: The Everglades and Big Sugar. Amy Green.</div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;">Natural Grace: God and Nature in our Slice of Pennsylvania. Thomas Ask.</div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;">The Nature of the Future: Agriculture, Science, and Capitalism in the Antebellum North. Emily Pawley.</div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;">Nature Shock: Getting Lost in America. Jon T. Coleman.</div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;">The New Climate Activism: NGO Authority and Participation in Climate Change Governance. Jen Iris Allan.</div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;">The New Climate War: The Fight to Take Back Our Planet. Michael Mann.</div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;"><b><br clear="none" /></b></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;">The New Possible: Visions of Our World Beyond Crisis. Varshini Prakash (Sunrise Movement).</div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;">On Trails: An Exploration. Robert Moor.</div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;">Only God Can Make a Tree: A Meditation. A book of pen and ink drawings. Vol. 1. Peter Grimord.</div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;">Overdressed: The Shockingly High Cost of Cheap Fashion. Elizabeth L. Cline.</div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;"><b><br clear="none" /></b></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;">Overview Time lapse. Benjamin Grant & Timothy Dougherty (satellite images of earth over time).</div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;">Plagues and Princes: The Great Mortality. Thomas Schultz. Historical Fiction.</div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;">Planetary Mine: Territories of Extraction under Late Capitalism. Martin Arboleda.</div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;">Planting the World: Joseph Banks and His Collectors: An Adventurous History of Botany. Jordan Goodman.</div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;">Pollution is Colonialism. Max Liboiron.</div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;">Post Growth: Life After Capitalism. Tim Jackson.</div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;">The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity. Toby Ord.</div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;">The Rights of the Defenseless: Protecting Animals and Children in Gilded Age America. Susan J. Pearson.</div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;">Sauntering: Writers Walk Europe. Duncan Minshull, editor.</div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;">A Search for Safe Passage (re: wildlife corridors). Frances Figart. Illustrations by Emma DuFort. For youth 7-13.</div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;">Second Nature: Scenes from a World Remade. Nathaniel Rich.</div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;">Science on a Mission: How Military Funding Shaped What We Do and Don't Know about the Ocean. Naomi Oreskes.</div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;">Scorched Earth: Environmental Warfare as a Crime Against Humanity and Nature. Emmanuel Kreike. A global history of environmental warfare and the case for why it should be a crime.</div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;">Seed to Dust: A Gardener's Story. Marc Hamer.</div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;">Smokescreen: Debunking Wildfire Myths to Save Our Forests and Our Climate. Chad T. Hanson.</div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;">Snowflake: A Climate Thriller. Arthur Jeon. Fiction.</div></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;">The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinction. David Quammen.</div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;">The Spirit of Green: The Economics of Collisions and Contagions in a Crowded World. 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Helen Macdonald.</div><div dir="ltr"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr">Wanderers: A History of Women Walking. Kerri Andrews.</div><div dir="ltr"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr">Waste: One Woman's Fight Against America's Dirty Secret. Catherine Coleman Flowers.</div><div dir="ltr"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr">The Water Kingdom: A Secret History of China. Philip Ball.</div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr">Wayfinding: The Science and Mystery of How Humans Navigate the World. M.R. O'Connor.</div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr">We Are the Land: A History of Native California. Damon B. Akins and William J. 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class="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" id="ydp9f1c3117yiv7987114125ydp3b5aceacyiv0275371313ydp1960a76fyiv1010088377ydp9550233yiv0590571854ydp64fa4361yiv0508836322ydp6884763dyiv7235431444ydp4a8331dayiv8870454329ydp354a242eyiv8920073614ydpd893fa54yiv1072748420ydp20a66938yiv1420692584ydpf689f145yiv9878710209ydpd93e8408yiv2852347929ydp26c35cf5yiv0327448535ydpbefe8029yiv5512357068ydpacac8e2yiv3128799514ydpd9ad2077yiv7883741067ydpff0191f8yiv5843702701ydp81f3ddc6yiv8467754525ydpf9270343yiv1231928905ydpf969f349yiv7542063458ydp6f09fb12yiv8424047981ydpd55656c4yiv6315905221ydp629b5989yiv9710371293ydpd8ca737byiv2780849503ydpc99ac4e0yiv8632984564ydp533d5049yiv5261894171ydpdf0807a5yiv2158984459yqtfd05565"><div dir="ltr"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr">We Are Water Protectors. Carole Lindstrom, author; Michaela Goade, illustrator. Caldecott Medal winner for illustration of a children's picture book, indigenous theme.</div><div dir="ltr"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr">What It's Like to Be a Bird: From Flying to Nesting, Eating to Singing---What Birds Are Doing and Why. David Allen Sibley.</div><div dir="ltr"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr">Winning a Green New Deal: Why We Must, How We Can. Varshini Prakash. Guido Girgenti, Rhiana Gunn-Wright, Bill McKibben, Rev. William Barber II, Joseph Stiglitz, Mary Kay Henry, et al. </div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr">World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments. Aimee Nezhukumatathil, with illustrations by Fumi Mini Nakamura.</div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr"><b>Eco-theology Titles</b></div><div dir="ltr"><b><br /></b></div><div dir="ltr">See the home page for Lutherans Restoring Creation for "books" and also "google" "ecotheology books" for a variety of titles. A more recent publication is</div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr">Celebrating Nature by Faith: Studies in Reformation Theology in an Era of Global Emergency. H. Paul Santmire.</div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr"><b>Climate Change Titles</b></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div><div dir="ltr"><b><br clear="none" /></b></div><div dir="ltr">One list can be found at earthday.org for 12-best-books-on-climate-change</div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr"><b>Acronyms of Interest</b></div><div dir="ltr"><b><br /></b></div><div dir="ltr"><b>30 x 30 Movement </b>plan would place 30% of U.S. lands and 30% of U.S. waters under federal guidelines protection by 2030, as announced by the Biden administration April 16, 2021 for conservation purposes and to help offset climate change. This mirrors similar international efforts.</div><div dir="ltr"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr"><b>RECLAIM </b>is the "Revitalizing the Economy of Coal Communities by Leveraging Local Activities and Investment More) Act to fund reclamation projects and community-led economic development in Appalachia, if passed by Congress.</div><div dir="ltr"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr">-------------------------------</div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr"><b>Groups</b></div><div dir="ltr"><b><br /></b></div><div dir="ltr"><b>Centre for Science and the Environment</b>, Sunita Narain, director, whose article " Why Climate Matters" appeared in TIME magazine of June 21/28, 2021, in their series of articles on "A New Hope For Health Care."</div><div dir="ltr"><b><br /></b></div><div dir="ltr"><b>Climate Litigation Network</b>, Tessa Kahn, co-director ("Save the Planet, One Lawsuit at a Time" article in The Guardian Weekly, August 21, 2020, one in a multiple of articles in its "The Future Starts Here" series).</div><div dir="ltr"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr"><b>Lifelong Learning Courses (from Great Courses.com) </b></div><div dir="ltr"><b><br clear="none" /></b></div><div dir="ltr">The National Geographic Guide to Birding in North America.</div><div dir="ltr"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr">The Science of Gardening.</div><div dir="ltr"><b><br clear="none" /></b></div><div dir="ltr">Wonders of the National Parks: A Geology of North America.</div><div dir="ltr"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr">The World's Greatest Geological Wonders/36 Spectacular Sites.</div></div></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr"><b>COVID Pandemic Title</b></div><div dir="ltr"><b><br /></b></div><div dir="ltr">The Pandemic Century: A History of Global Contagion from the Spanish Flu to Covid-19. Mark Honigsbaum.</div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr"><b>Season of Creation in September 2021</b></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr">September is the Season of Creation in the church liturgical year. So for four Sundays in September, before St. Francis of Assisi Day on October 3, you are invited to join in celebrating with creation, and to re-commit yourselves to a ministry of healing Earth, with Christ and Creation as partners.</div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr">Resources:</div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr">seasonofcreation.com</div><div dir="ltr">seasonofcreation.org</div><div dir="ltr">letallcreationpraise.org</div><div dir="ltr">lutheransrestroringcreation.org </div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr">------------------------------</div><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><br /></div><div class="ydp9f1c3117yiv7987114125ydp3b5aceacyiv0275371313ydp1960a76fyiv1010088377ydp9550233yiv0590571854ydp64fa4361yiv0508836322ydp6884763dyiv7235431444ydp4a8331dayiv8870454329ydp354a242eyiv8920073614ydp86c633e8signature" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><div style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><div dir="ltr">Mike Ochs finds common ground between religion and politics in his concern for the environment.</div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr">Politically he self-published the first "Greens Bibliography" of the English-language literature on the international Green Party movement (1989), the project for his Master of Liberal Arts in International Studies degree at Lock Haven (PA) University. He also helped plant the seeds for the Green Party of PA at that time, and remains a cyber-activist with it.</div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div>For a monthly newsletter of the ecumenical United Churches of Lycoming County (PA), he has written the "Creation Corner Column" since 1997. It became a blog in 2011 at </div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://lutheransrestoringcreationblog.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow" style="color: #196ad4;" target="_blank">http://lutheransrestoringcreationblog.blogspot.com/</a></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr">He received a B.A. degree from Gettysburg College in 1965.</div></div></div>Michael Ochshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02332989825816982880noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-263564892771726234.post-5097430845144574282021-07-01T08:05:00.000-07:002021-07-01T08:05:11.166-07:007/21 CCC: Eco-theology, Climate, Environment, Pandemic, Children<p> <b style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">July 2021 Creation Corner Column: Summer readings on Eco-theology, Climate, Environment, the Pandemic, and Children's books</b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> 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titles</b></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;">The Cosmic Spirit: Awakenings at the Heart of All Religions, the Earth, and the Multiverse. Roland Faber.<br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;">The Earth Cries Out: How Faith Communities Meet the Challenges of Sustainability. Gary Gardner. <br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;">Ecotheology: A Christian Conversation. Kiara Jorgenson and Alan Padgett.<br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;"><div>The Green Good News: Christ's Path to Sustainable and Joyful Life. T. Wilson Dickinson.<br clear="none" /></div><div><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr">Hope in Disarray: Piecing Our Lives Together in Faith. Grace Ji-Sun Kim.<br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr">Jesus for Farmers and Fishers: Justice for All Those Marginalized by Our Food System. Gary Paul Nabhan.<br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr">Shalom and the Community of Creation: An Indigenous Vision. Randy Woodley.<br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr">Theologies of Land: Contested Land, Spatial Justice, and Identity. K.K. Yeo and Gene L. Green, eds.<br clear="none" /></div></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;"><b>Climate Crisis and Environment Book Titles (A-to-H; balance I-to-Z next month)</b><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;"><b><br clear="none" /></b></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;">The Age of Wood: Our Most Useful Material and the Construction of Civilization. Roland Ennos.</div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;">The Alchemy of Us: How Humans and Matter Transformed One Another. Ainissa Ramirez.</div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;"><br /></div><div data-setdir="false" dir="ltr" style="color: black;">An Atman Visits Planet Earth: 250 Million Years of Evolution. Robert H. Brown. Sci-Fi novel<br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;">Animal, Vegetable, Junk: A History of Food, From Sustainable to Suicidal. Mark Bittman.<br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;">Animal Welfare in China: Culture, Politics and Crisis. Peter J. Li.</div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;"><br /></div><div data-setdir="false" dir="ltr" style="color: black;">Animals' Best Friends: Putting Compassion to Work for Animals in Captivity and in the Wild. Barbara J. King..<br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;">Another End of the World is Possible: Living the Collapse (and not merely surviving it). Pablo Servigne, Raphael Stevens, & Gautheir Chapelle.</div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;"><b><br clear="none" /></b></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;">Antarctica: The Sleeping Giant. Sebastian Copeland.</div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;"><b><br clear="none" /></b></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;">The Arctic: What Everyone Needs to Know. Klaus Dodds and Mark Nuttall.</div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;">Baggage: Confessions of a Globe-Trotting Hypochondriac. Jeremy Hance.</div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;">Bay Lexicon. Jane Wolff.</div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;">Beloved Beasts: Fighting for Life in an Age of Extinction. Michelle Nijhuis.</div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;">Below the Edge of Darkness: A Memoir of Exploring Light and Life in the Deep Sea. Edith Widder.</div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;">Beneath My Feet: Writers on Walking. Duncan Minshull, editor.</div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;">The Bird Way: A New Look at How Birds Talk, Work, Play, Parent, and Think. Jennifer Ackerman.</div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;"><b><br clear="none" /></b></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;">Breaking Through: Understanding Sovereignty and Security in the Circumpolar Arctic. Edited by Wilfrid Greaves and P. Whitney Lackenbauer.</div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;">The Brilliant Abyss: Exploring the Majestic Hidden Life of the Deep Ocean, and the Looming Threat That Imperils It. Helen Scales.</div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;">Cataclysms: An Environmental History of Humanity. Laurent Testot.</div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;">Catastrophic Thinking: Extinction and the Value of Diversity from Darwin to the Anthropocene. David Sepkosi.</div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;"><b><br clear="none" /></b></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;">The Chemical Age: How Chemists Fought Famine and Disease, Killed Millions, and Changed Our Relationship with the Earth. Frank A. von Hippel.</div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;">A Children's Bible. Lydia Millet. A Climate Fiction Novel.</div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;">Confessions of a Recovering Environmentalist and Other Essays. Paul Kingsworth.<br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;"><b><br clear="none" /></b></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;">The Conscious Closet: The Revolutionary Guide to Looking Good While Doing Good. Elizabeth L. Cline.</div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;">Conservation Science and Advocacy for a Planet in Peril: Speaking Truth to Power. Dominick A. DellaSala.</div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;">The Contamination of the Earth: A History of Pollutions in the Industrial Age. Francois Jarrige and Thomas Le Roux, translated from the French by Janice Egan and Michael Egan.</div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;">Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things. Michael Braungart and William McDonough (re: circular economy).<br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;">The Culture of Feedback: Ecological Thinking in Seventies America. Daniel Belgrad.</div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;">The Day the World Stops Shopping: How Ending Consumerism Saves the Environment and Ourselves. JB MacKinnon.</div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;">Deep Adaptation: Navigating the Realities of Climate Chaos. Edited by Jem Bendell and Rupert Read.</div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;">Diet for a Large Planet: Industrial Britain, Food Systems, and World Ecology. Chris Otter.</div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;"><b><br clear="none" /></b></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;">Downriver: Into the Future of Water in the West. Heather Hansman.</div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;">Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming. Paul Hawken, editor.</div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;">Drought, Flood, Fire: How Climate Change Contributes to Catastrophes. Chris Funk.</div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;">Earth Detox: How and Why We Must Clean Up Our Planet. Julian Cribb.<br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;">Earth Spirit Dreaming: Shamanic Ecotherapy Practices. Elizabeth E. Meachem.</div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;">Eat Your Front Garden: The Invisible Allotment. Mat Coward.</div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;">Elsewhere: A Journey into Our Age of Islands. Alastair Bonnett.</div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;">Encounters With the Archdruid: Narratives With A Conservationist and Three of His Natural Enemies. John McPhee.</div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;">Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds, and Shape Our Futures. Merlin Sheldrake.</div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;">The Epilogues: Afterwords on the Planet. Barbara Hurd.</div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;">Farming While Black: Soul Fire Farm's Practical Guide to Liberation on the Land. Leah Penniman.</div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;">A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety: How to Keep Your Cool on a Warming Planet. Sarah Jaquette Ray. (advertised as "Gen Z's first 'existential toolkit' for combatting eco-guilt and burnout while advocating for climate justice.") Google the title for similar books.</div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;">Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest. Suzanne Simard.</div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;">Fixation: How to Have Stuff without Breaking the Planet. Sandra Goldmark.</div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;">Flights of Passage: An Illustrated Natural History of Bird Migration. Mike Unwin and David Tipling.</div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;">A Friend of the Earth. T.C. Boyle. (Novel).</div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;">From Here to There: The Art and Science of Finding and Losing Our Way. Michael Bond.</div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;">Hatched: Dispatches from the Backyard Chicken Movement. Gina G. Warren.</div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;">How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need. Bill Gates.</div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;">How Climate Change Comes to Matter: The Communal Life of Facts. Candis Callison.</div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;">How to Love Animals: In a Human-Shaped World. Henry Mance.</div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;"><br clear="none" /></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="ydp9b695d8yiv4315337194ydpd893fa54yiv1072748420ydp20a66938yiv1420692584ydpf689f145yiv9878710209ydpd93e8408yiv2852347929ydp26c35cf5yiv0327448535ydpbefe8029yiv5512357068ydpacac8e2yiv3128799514ydpd9ad2077yiv7883741067ydpff0191f8yiv5843702701ydp81f3ddc6yiv8467754525ydpf9270343yiv1231928905ydpf969f349yiv7542063458ydp6f09fb12yiv8424047981ydpd55656c4yiv6315905221yqt7325735265" 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id="ydp9b695d8yiv4315337194ydpd893fa54yiv1072748420ydp20a66938yiv1420692584ydpf689f145yiv9878710209ydpd93e8408yiv2852347929ydp26c35cf5yiv0327448535ydpbefe8029yiv5512357068ydpacac8e2yiv3128799514ydpd9ad2077yiv7883741067ydpff0191f8yiv5843702701ydp81f3ddc6yiv8467754525ydpf9270343yiv1231928905ydpf969f349yiv7542063458ydp6f09fb12yiv8424047981ydpd55656c4yiv6315905221ydp629b5989yiv9710371293ydpd8ca737byiv2780849503ydpc99ac4e0yiv8632984564ydp533d5049yiv5261894171yqtfd94739"><div class="ydp9b695d8yiv4315337194ydpd893fa54yiv1072748420ydp20a66938yiv1420692584ydpf689f145yiv9878710209ydpd93e8408yiv2852347929ydp26c35cf5yiv0327448535ydpbefe8029yiv5512357068ydpacac8e2yiv3128799514ydpd9ad2077yiv7883741067ydpff0191f8yiv5843702701ydp81f3ddc6yiv8467754525ydpf9270343yiv1231928905ydpf969f349yiv7542063458ydp6f09fb12yiv8424047981ydpd55656c4yiv6315905221ydp629b5989yiv9710371293ydpd8ca737byiv2780849503ydpc99ac4e0yiv8632984564ydp533d5049yiv5261894171ydpdf0807a5yiv2158984459yqt1443530384" id="ydp9b695d8yiv4315337194ydpd893fa54yiv1072748420ydp20a66938yiv1420692584ydpf689f145yiv9878710209ydpd93e8408yiv2852347929ydp26c35cf5yiv0327448535ydpbefe8029yiv5512357068ydpacac8e2yiv3128799514ydpd9ad2077yiv7883741067ydpff0191f8yiv5843702701ydp81f3ddc6yiv8467754525ydpf9270343yiv1231928905ydpf969f349yiv7542063458ydp6f09fb12yiv8424047981ydpd55656c4yiv6315905221ydp629b5989yiv9710371293ydpd8ca737byiv2780849503ydpc99ac4e0yiv8632984564ydp533d5049yiv5261894171ydpdf0807a5yiv2158984459yqtfd05565"><div dir="ltr">----------------------------------------</div><div dir="ltr"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr"><b>Special Periodical Issue</b><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr"><b><br clear="none" /></b></div><div dir="ltr"><i>The American Scholar</i> (published by Phi Beta Kappa),for Summer 2012 features "Turning to Nature: How it consoled us, how it can heal us, and how we could show our gratitude", by Lucy Jones, as its cover story. Her article, "Rewilding Our Minds: Why nature is so necessary during the pandemic---and how we repay the debt", arrives before the August publication of her new book, <b>Losing Eden: Our Fundamental Need for the Natural World---and Its Ability to Heal Body and Soul.</b></div><div dir="ltr"><b><br clear="none" /></b></div><div dir="ltr">-----------------------------------------</div><div dir="ltr"><b><br clear="none" /></b></div><div dir="ltr"><b>More Pandemic Books</b></div><div dir="ltr"><b><br clear="none" /></b></div><div dir="ltr">The Biomedical Empire: Lessons Learned from the COVID-19 Pandemic. Barbara Katz Rothman.</div><div dir="ltr"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr">How to Make a Vaccine: An Essential Guide for COVID-19 and Beyond. John Rhodes.</div><div dir="ltr"><b><br clear="none" /></b></div><div dir="ltr">The Plague Year: America in the Time of Covid. Lawrence Wright.</div><div dir="ltr"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr">-----------------------------------------</div><div dir="ltr"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr"><b>Books for Younger Readers</b> (recommended for Earth Day 2021 in the April issue of Book Page.com )</div></div><div class="ydp9b695d8yiv4315337194ydpd893fa54yiv1072748420ydp20a66938yiv1420692584ydpf689f145yiv9878710209ydpd93e8408yiv2852347929ydp26c35cf5yiv0327448535ydpbefe8029yiv5512357068ydpacac8e2yiv3128799514ydpd9ad2077yiv7883741067ydpff0191f8yiv5843702701ydp81f3ddc6yiv8467754525ydpf9270343yiv1231928905ydpf969f349yiv7542063458ydp6f09fb12yiv8424047981ydpd55656c4yiv6315905221ydp629b5989yiv9710371293ydpd8ca737byiv2780849503ydpc99ac4e0yiv8632984564ydp533d5049yiv5261894171ydpdf0807a5yiv2158984459yqt1443530384" id="ydp9b695d8yiv4315337194ydpd893fa54yiv1072748420ydp20a66938yiv1420692584ydpf689f145yiv9878710209ydpd93e8408yiv2852347929ydp26c35cf5yiv0327448535ydpbefe8029yiv5512357068ydpacac8e2yiv3128799514ydpd9ad2077yiv7883741067ydpff0191f8yiv5843702701ydp81f3ddc6yiv8467754525ydpf9270343yiv1231928905ydpf969f349yiv7542063458ydp6f09fb12yiv8424047981ydpd55656c4yiv6315905221ydp629b5989yiv9710371293ydpd8ca737byiv2780849503ydpc99ac4e0yiv8632984564ydp533d5049yiv5261894171ydpdf0807a5yiv2158984459yqtfd10917"><div class="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" id="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"><div dir="ltr"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Fatima's Great Outdoors. Ambreen Tariq. Ages 4 to 7. </div><div dir="ltr"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr">Hello Earth: Poems to Our Planet. Joyce Sidman. Ages 5 to 9.</div><div dir="ltr"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr">Once Upon Another Time. Charles Ghigna and Matt Forrest Esenwine. Ages 4 to 8.</div><div dir="ltr"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr">The Outdoor Scientist: The Wonder of Observing the Natural World. Temple Grandin. Ages 8 to 12.</div><div dir="ltr"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr">Treaty Words: For as Long as the Rivers Flow. Aimee Craft. Ages 10 to 17.</div><div dir="ltr"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr">Wonder Walkers. Micha Archer. Ages 3 to 7.<br /></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="ydpdcc0c9feyiv4315337194yqt0994974432" id="ydpdcc0c9feyiv4315337194yqtfd96324" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><div dir="ltr"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr">-------------------------------------------30------------------------------------</div></div><div class="ydpdcc0c9feyiv4315337194yqt0994974432" id="ydpdcc0c9feyiv4315337194yqtfd64325" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><div class="ydpdcc0c9feyiv4315337194ydpd893fa54yiv1072748420ydp20a66938yiv1420692584ydp90c84466yiv9878710209yqt3662000418" 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id="ydpdcc0c9feyiv4315337194ydpd893fa54yiv1072748420ydp20a66938yiv1420692584ydp90c84466yiv9878710209ydp3dbebacbyiv2852347929ydp4cee606cyiv0327448535ydpcb164795yiv5512357068ydp16f7ad39yiv3128799514ydp70a32e4fyiv7883741067ydp18357cabyiv5843702701ydpd48fcb01yiv8467754525ydp69440551yiv1231928905yqtfd23630"><div class="ydpdcc0c9feyiv4315337194ydpd893fa54yiv1072748420ydp20a66938yiv1420692584ydp90c84466yiv9878710209ydp3dbebacbyiv2852347929ydp4cee606cyiv0327448535ydpcb164795yiv5512357068ydp16f7ad39yiv3128799514ydp70a32e4fyiv7883741067ydp18357cabyiv5843702701ydpd48fcb01yiv8467754525ydp69440551yiv1231928905ydp545a0f2fyiv7542063458yqt5811048580" id="ydpdcc0c9feyiv4315337194ydpd893fa54yiv1072748420ydp20a66938yiv1420692584ydp90c84466yiv9878710209ydp3dbebacbyiv2852347929ydp4cee606cyiv0327448535ydpcb164795yiv5512357068ydp16f7ad39yiv3128799514ydp70a32e4fyiv7883741067ydp18357cabyiv5843702701ydpd48fcb01yiv8467754525ydp69440551yiv1231928905ydp545a0f2fyiv7542063458yqtfd24566"><div class="ydpdcc0c9feyiv4315337194ydpd893fa54yiv1072748420ydp20a66938yiv1420692584ydp90c84466yiv9878710209ydp3dbebacbyiv2852347929ydp4cee606cyiv0327448535ydpcb164795yiv5512357068ydp16f7ad39yiv3128799514ydp70a32e4fyiv7883741067ydp18357cabyiv5843702701ydpd48fcb01yiv8467754525ydp69440551yiv1231928905ydp545a0f2fyiv7542063458ydp4d9a3252yiv8424047981yqt2244867616" id="ydpdcc0c9feyiv4315337194ydpd893fa54yiv1072748420ydp20a66938yiv1420692584ydp90c84466yiv9878710209ydp3dbebacbyiv2852347929ydp4cee606cyiv0327448535ydpcb164795yiv5512357068ydp16f7ad39yiv3128799514ydp70a32e4fyiv7883741067ydp18357cabyiv5843702701ydpd48fcb01yiv8467754525ydp69440551yiv1231928905ydp545a0f2fyiv7542063458ydp4d9a3252yiv8424047981yqtfd96358"><div dir="ltr"><b><br clear="none" /></b></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">Mike Ochs finds common ground between religion and politics in his concern for the environment.</span><br /></div></div><div 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English-language literature on the international Green Party movement (1989), the project for his Master of Liberal Arts in International Studies degree at Lock Haven (PA) University. He also helped plant the seeds for the Green Party of PA at that time, and remains a cyber-activist with it.</div><div dir="ltr"><br clear="none" /></div><div>For a monthly newsletter of the ecumenical United Churches of Lycoming County (PA), he has written the "Creation Corner Column" since 1997. It became a blog in 2011 at </div><div><br clear="none" /></div><div><a href="http://lutheransrestoringcreationblog.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" style="color: #196ad4;" target="_blank">http://lutheransrestoringcreationblog.blogspot.com/</a></div><div dir="ltr"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr">He received a B.A. degree from Gettysburg College in 1965.</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>Michael Ochshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02332989825816982880noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-263564892771726234.post-90434153445744790572021-06-02T09:44:00.001-07:002021-06-02T09:44:18.110-07:00CCC 6/2021: Pandemic Books & Environmental Features<p> <b style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">CCC 6/2021: Pandemic Books and Environmental Features</b></p><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: 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Cass R. Sunstein.<br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;"><b><br clear="none" /></b></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;">The Beautiful Cure: The Revolution in Immunology and What it Means for Your Health. Daniel M. Davis.</div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;">The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Control. Laurie Garrett.</div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;"><b><br clear="none" /></b></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;">The Corona Transmissions: Alternatives for Engaging with COVID-19---from the Physical to the Metaphysical. Edited by Sherri Mitchell, Richard Grossinger, and Kathy Glass.<br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;">Coronavirus Politics: The Comparative Politics and Policy of COVID-19. Edited by Scott L. Greer, Elizabeth J. King, Elize Massard Da Fonseca, and Andre Peralta-Santos.</div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;"><div dir="ltr">The COVID-19 Catastrophe: What's Gone Wrong and How to Stop it Happening Again, 2nd edition. Richard Horton.</div><div dir="ltr"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr">A COVID Charter, A Better World. Toby Miller.</div></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;"><b><br clear="none" /></b></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;">Death in Hamburg: Society and Politics in the Cholera Years, 1830-1910. Richard J. Evans.</div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;">Economics in One Virus: An Introduction to Economic Reasoning through COVID-19. Ryan A. Bourne.</div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;">The End of Epidemics: The Looming Threat to Humanity and How to Stop It. Jonathan D. Quick.</div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;">Failures of State: The Inside Story of Britain's Battle with Coronavirus. Jonathan Calvert and George Arbuthnott. </div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;">Fighting the First Wave: Why the Coronavirus Was Tackled So Differently Across the Globe. Peter Baldwin.</div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;">From Here to There: War, Peace, Pandemic---A Memoir. Romy Wyllie.</div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;">The Great Inoculator: The Untold Story of Daniel Sutton and his Medical Revolution. Gavin Weightman.</div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;">How to Make a Vaccine: An Essential Guide for COVID-19 and Beyond. John Rhodes.</div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;">Impact of COVID-19 on the Careers of Women in Academic Science, Engineering, and Medicine. Eve Higginbotham and Maria Lund Dahlberg, editors.</div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;">Intensive Care: A GP, a Community and Covid-19. Gavin Francis.</div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;">The Monster Enters: COVID-19 and the Plagues of Capitalism. Mike Davis (an update of his 2005 book on the avian flu).<br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;">New Pandemics, Old Politics: Two Hundred Years of War on Disease and its Alternatives. Alex de Waal.</div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;">On Immunity: An Inoculation. Eula Biss.</div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;">Pandemic! 2: Chronicles of a Time Lost. Slavoj Zizek. (also titled as PANdemiC!)</div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;"><b><br clear="none" /></b></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;">Pandemic 1918: Eyewitness Accounts From the Greatest Medical Holocaust in Modern History. Catharine Arnold.</div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;">Pandemic Prayers: Devotions and Prayers for a Crisis. Beth Felker Jones.</div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;">Pandemic Societies. Edited by Jean-Louis Denis et al.</div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;">A Planet of Viruses, third edition. Carl Zimmer.</div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;">The Premonition: A Pandemic Story. Michael Lewis.<br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;">Preventing the Next Pandemic: Vaccine Diplomacy in a Time of Anti-Science. Peter J. Hotez, MD, PhD.</div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;">The Psychology of Pandemics: Preparing for the Next Global Outbreak of Infectious Diseases. Steven Taylor.</div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;">Public Health: A Very Short Introduction. Virginia Berridge.</div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;">Rebuilding Trust in Healthcare: A Doctor's Prescription for a Post-Pandemic America. Paul Pender, MD.</div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;">Shutdown: How Covid Shook the World's Economy. Adam Tooze. Forthcoming.<br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;">Viral BS: Medical Myths and Why We Fall for Them. Seema Yasmin.</div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;">VIRUS: Vaccinations, the CDC, and the Hijacking of America's Response to the Pandemic. Nina Burleigh.</div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;">Web site of value at MayoClinic.org/coronavirus-covid-19 .</div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;">Web site on the safety and effectiveness of the vaccines, from the Center for Science in the Public Interest (now celebrating 50 years), as part of its participation in the Biden administration's "We Can Do This" campaign: cspinet.org/covidvaccines .</div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;"><b>Special Cover Environmental Feature Issues of Two Periodicals</b></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;"><b><br clear="none" /></b></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;">Creatures: The Nature Issue, for the Summer 2021 Plough Quarterly: Stories/Ideas/Culture, published by the Bruderhof community.</div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;">The Solving Plastic issue, for the Summer 2021 magazine YES!: Journalism for People, Building a Better World, published by the Positive Futures Network.</div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;"><b>New Newsletter from Greenpeace</b></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;"><b><br clear="none" /></b></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;">The Summer 2021 update, "Compass," draws our attention to their "Just Recovery Agenda" (recovering from fossil fuels dependence), climate campaign divesting from the bad and investing in the good, environmental racism, the Brazil Pantanal on fire, the Greenpeace 2021 Indian Ocean voyage, five ways nature supports life on earth, progress reports for people, wildlife, and the planet, as well as a link for how supermarkets ranked on efforts to reduce single-use plastics: </div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;">greenpeace.org/usa/shopping-for-plastic-2012 .</div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;"><b>For the general reader of the popular press:</b></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;"><br clear="none" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;">The <b>Good Housekeeping</b> Sustainable Living Guide can be seen in their April 2021 magazine issue and on-line. Also therein is an article by Meryl Davids Landau on "Five Ways to Breathe Easier" regarding advice for responding to the changes in our climate that are affecting our air quality, food and water supply, and making us more vulnerable to illness.</div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;">A "20-5-3 Nature Cure" is highlighted in the June issue of <b>Men's Health </b>because "Americans today spend 92 percent of their time indoors, and their physical and mental health are suffering." The "nature pyramid" devised by Rachel Hopman, Ph.D. neuroscientist advises 20 minutes of time three days a week being spent outside in nature such as a neighborhood park, 5 hours a month spent in semi-wild nature, like a forested state park, and 3 days a year (the top of the pyramid) lived off-the-grid in nature, camping or renting a cabin (with friends or solo). The magazine article is adapted by the author of the book The Comfort Crisis: Embrace Discomfort to Reclaim Your Wild, Happy, Healthy Self, by Michael Easter.</div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;"><b>Quotation</b></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;"><b><br /></b></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;">Some people, in order to find God, will read a book. But there is a great book, the book of created nature. Look carefully at it top and bottom, observe it, read it. God did not make letters of ink for you to recognize him in; he set before your eyes all these things he has made. Why look for a louder voice?</div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;">Augustine of Hippo</div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;">-----------------------------------------------------</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><br /></div><div class="yiv0726427609ydpd6e6cbdbsignature" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><div style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><div dir="ltr">Mike Ochs finds common ground between religion and politics in his concern for the environment.</div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr">Politically he self-published the first "Greens Bibliography" of the English-language literature on the international Green Party movement (1989), the project for his Master of Liberal Arts in International Studies degree at Lock Haven (PA) University. He also helped plant the seeds for the Green Party of PA at that time, and remains a cyber-activist with it.</div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div>For a monthly newsletter of the ecumenical United Churches of Lycoming County (PA), he has written the "Creation Corner Column" since 1997. It became a blog in 2011 at </div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://lutheransrestoringcreationblog.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="color: #196ad4;" target="_blank">http://lutheransrestoringcreationblog.blogspot.com/</a></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr">He received a B.A. degree from Gettysburg College in 1965.</div></div></div>Michael Ochshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02332989825816982880noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-263564892771726234.post-59819712784740057692021-05-02T10:00:00.000-07:002021-05-02T10:00:08.867-07:005/21 CCC: Secular enviro. publications, TIME on Climate is Everything, etc.<p> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">5/21 CCC: Secular enviro. publications, TIME on Climate is Everything, New Documentary, IPPNW, more Earth Day resources, Creation Justice Ministries Bible quotation.</span></p><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><b><br /></b></div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><b>A sample of periodicals from secular environmental advocacy organizations. </b>These membership groups are directed to the general public, not specialists or scientists.</div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><div dir="ltr"><i>America's Wilderness</i> is the member newsletter from The Wilderness Society. wilderness.org .</div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div></div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><i>Arbor Day</i> is the official publication of the Arbor Day Foundation. arborday.org .<br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><i>Audubon magazine</i>. audubon.org .</div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><i>Banking on Climate Chaos 2021: Fossil Fuel Finance Report</i>. Rainforest Action Network. ran.org .</div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Catalyst. Union of Concerned Scientists. ucsusa.org .</div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><i>CeresWorks</i> arrives from the Coalition for Environmentally Responsible EconomieS (CERES).</div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><i>Defenders: The Voice of Defenders of Wildlife</i>. defenders.org .</div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><i><br /></i></div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><i>Earth Island Journal: News of the World Environment</i>. An Earth Island Institute publication. eii.org/projects .</div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><i>Green American: Live Better, Save More, Invest Wisely, Make a Difference</i>. GreenAmerican.org .</div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><i><br /></i></div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><i>Humane Activist</i> and <i>Humane Scorecard</i> (reports on U.S. Congressional Sessions). Humane Society Legislative Fund. hslf.org .</div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><i>The Living Planet Report</i> is issued every two years by the World Wildlife Fund. worldwildlife.org .</div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><i>National Parks</i>. The magazine of the National Parks Conservation Association.</div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><i>Nature Conservancy</i>. See Nature.org/magazine .</div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><i>Newsmagazine: Eco Edition</i>. Friends of the Earth.</div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><i>Orion: People and Nature</i>. orionmagazine.org .</div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><i>PETA Global: Advancing the Animal Rights Revolution</i>. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. peta.org .</div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><i>Population Connection</i>. Magazine from Population Connection.<br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><i>Rails to Trails: Inspiring Movement</i>. Magazine from Rails-to-Trails Conservancy.</div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><i>Rainforest-Alliance.org</i> has many reports on-line.</div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><i>Sierra: Explore, Enjoy, Protect</i>. Sierra Club magazine.</div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><i>Solutions: Finding the Ways that Work</i>. Environmental Defense Fund periodical. edf.org .</div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><i>The Source</i>. Newsletter of American Rivers.org (Rivers Connect Us).</div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><i>Splash</i>. oceanconservancy.org .</div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><i>Spotlight</i> is the new newsletter from Corporate Accountability: Join the Global campaign, a 501(c)(3) non-profit. It also conducts annual "Corporate Hall of Shame" inductee ballot votes.</div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><i>A Year of Progress for People and the Planet</i>. greenpeace.org .<br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><b>Note: Membership benefits may include</b></div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">action plans, bookmarks, briefing papers on issues, bumper stickers, calendars, financial reports,</div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">greeting cards, legislation profiles, maps, matching funds appeals, petitions, postcards, priority projects, return address labels, survey questionnaires, "things-to-do" lists, voting record profiles, wallet membership cards, writing note tablets, year-end reports, etc.</div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><b>---------------------------------</b></div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><b><br /></b></div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><b>Another "environmental" group (a continuation from earlier monthly columns):</b><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><b><br /></b></div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><b>International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW)</b></div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: #26282a;">IPPNW received a Nobel Peace Prize in 1985, by which time it had 135,000 members in 41 countries, having been founded in 1980 by a group of six American and Soviet doctors, one of whom was Harvard cardiologist Dr. Bernard Lown (1921-2021). An obituary for him shares these quotes: "To me, you cannot be committed to health without being engaged in social struggle for health." His involvement in the IPPNW led detractors to accuse him of playing into the 'hands of Soviet propagandists,' said </span><i style="color: #26282a;">The</i><span style="color: #26282a;"> </span><i style="color: #26282a;">New York Times</i><span style="color: #26282a;">. He dismissed such criticism as irrelevant considering the cataclysmic threat posed by nuclear weapons. "We are not indifferent to other human rights," he said in accepting the Nobel. "But first we must be able to bequeath to our children the most fundamental of all rights, which preconditions all others: the right to survival." (Obituary: The cardiologist who campaigned against nukes, THE WEEK, March 12, 2021, p. 35).</span><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: #26282a;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: #26282a;"><b>--------------------</b></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: #26282a;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: #26282a;"><b>A valuable TIME magazine double issue theme: CLIMATE IS EVERYTHING </b>for April 26/May 3 is 36 pages (1/3 of the total pages) and continues their launch of a decade-long "TIME 2030" effort to spotlight "the ideas and innovations driving progress toward a more sustainable and equitable world."</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: #26282a;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: #26282a;">The concept of "climatization" runs through the many articles: the course of processes by which climate change will transform society. Policies and systems such as national security, finance, energy, housing, architecture, racial justice, public health, schooling and academia, crime, transportation, economics, economies, and economic growth, politics and government, labor markets, corporate social responsibility, food, poverty, trade routes, supply chains, leadership advocacy and activism, media, science, ethics, climate risk disclosures, the legal and medical professions, taxes, technologies, emergency preparedness, migrations, infrastructures of all kinds, urban adaptations, challenges of pollution and sanitation, the need for climate literacy at all levels of education, biodiversity protection, global senses of racial and economic inequalities, global senses of moral obligations and interdependency, catastrophic weather event warnings, etc., etc., etc., are each detailed in these TIME essays.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: #26282a;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: #26282a;">It is these climate connections, intersections, linkages, cross-cuttings, intertwinings, interactions, spillovers, externalities, etc., call them what you will--- the wide gamut of efforts to save the integrity of the environmental commons--- will become the priority for us. The economic and environmental benefits and losses, the "trade-offs", will factor in more decision-making transformations across all sectors. The essays in this edition of TIME covers these.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: #26282a;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: #26282a;">In other words, climate change will permeate everything.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: #26282a;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: #26282a;"><b>-------------------------------</b></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: #26282a;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: #26282a;"><b>New Documentary</b></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: #26282a;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: #26282a;"><b>Extinction: The Facts </b>is narrated by Sir David Attenborough, and premiered on PBS 3/31/2021, and is about biodiversity loss and halting it. Attenborough is vice-president of Fauna & Flora International. One review of the documentary is by Ed Rampell, "How We Can Put a Halt to Biodiversity Loss."</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: #26282a;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: #26282a;"><b>----------------------------</b></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: #26282a;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: #26282a;"><b>Some resources from Earth Day 2021:</b></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Parade magazine for April 11 and again on April 18 provided several pages devoted to Earth Day issues (problems and solutions), some of which are derived from Laurie David's co-authored book <i>Imagine It: A Handbook for a Happier Planet. </i>Some "earth-friendly cities" are raised up (Louisville KY, San Diego CA, Seattle WA, Orlando FL, and Washington DC). An article by Kathleen McCleary notes "5 Ways to Help the Planet Today" (ditch the glitter; be food smart; embrace earth-friendly fashion; try a new way to compost; quit the plastic habit). The 4/18 article "Go a Little Greener" has tips for a better wipe, a better cup of coffee, a better swab, a better ride, a better clean, a better wrap, and a better wash.</div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">See parade.com and search for earth, earth-day-facts, and picks.</div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><b>-------------------------</b><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><b>2 Peter 3:12-13</b>. The second letter of Peter asks early Christian communities to orient their lives towards their hope for "a new heavens and a new earth, where righteousness is at home." Such was the Bible study for Earth Day 2021 recommended by Creation Justice Ministries.<br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><b>--------------------------</b></div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">M<span style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">ike Ochs finds common ground between religion and politics in his concern for the environment.</span></div><div class="ydp920c577dyiv5126570738ydpf78e2b25yiv1996797179ydpbbe8844eyiv8790951868ydpbaad819dsignature" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><div style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr">Politically he self-published the first "Greens Bibliography" of the English-language literature on the international Green Party movement (1989), the project for his Master of Liberal Arts in International Studies degree at Lock Haven (PA) University. He also helped plant the seeds for the Green Party of PA at that time, and remains a cyber-activist with it.</div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div>For a monthly newsletter of the ecumenical United Churches of Lycoming County (PA), he has written the "Creation Corner Column" since 1997. It became a blog in 2011 at </div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://lutheransrestoringcreationblog.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow" style="color: #196ad4;" target="_blank">http://lutheransrestoringcreationblog.blogspot.com/</a></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr">He received a B.A. degree from Gettysburg College in 1965.</div></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr"> -30-</div></div></div>Michael Ochshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02332989825816982880noreply@blogger.com0