God’s Taunt

If you sometimes feel churchy on Sunday, please try Bill McKibben’s beautiful sermon at New York’s Riverside Church on the moral imperative of the climate crisis.

God’s Taunt

If you sometimes feel churchy on Sunday, please try Bill McKibben’s beautiful sermon at New York’s Riverside Church on the moral imperative of the climate crisis.

Fear of Change and the Climate Crisis

If we are supposed to recognize the impermanent nature of all things, how do we also raise hell to keep the climate from changing?

Fear of Change and the Climate Crisis

If we are supposed to recognize the impermanent nature of all things, how do we also raise hell to keep the climate from changing?

Where We Stand Against Coal Exports

There is not enough room in the national headlines for all the battles between fossil fuel expansion projects and climate activists occurring right now. But the Keystone XL proposal’s public comment period ends on April 22nd, so we can shift

Where We Stand Against Coal Exports

There is not enough room in the national headlines for all the battles between fossil fuel expansion projects and climate activists occurring right now. But the Keystone XL proposal’s public comment period ends on April 22nd, so we can shift

Robert Irwin on Boredom

From “Seeing is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees”, a collection of interviews with artist Robert Irwin, by Lawrence Weschler.

Robert Irwin on Boredom

From “Seeing is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees”, a collection of interviews with artist Robert Irwin, by Lawrence Weschler.

Palm Oil: I Must Change My Life

I rely on skepticism, but sometimes recognition breaks through the defense, and with recognition comes the certainty that I must change my life.

Palm Oil: I Must Change My Life

I rely on skepticism, but sometimes recognition breaks through the defense, and with recognition comes the certainty that I must change my life.

The Weight of the Roof Tree

Aneka jati samsaram sandhavissam anibbisam gahakaram gavesanto dukkha jati punappunam. –Dhammapada, V. 153-154. ***********

The Weight of the Roof Tree

Aneka jati samsaram sandhavissam anibbisam gahakaram gavesanto dukkha jati punappunam. –Dhammapada, V. 153-154. ***********

A No From The Yeses

“It’s hard to overstate the inhibition that has been squatting like an imp on the anxious chest of “responsible” opinion for two decades or more. Call it the inhibition of realism.” -Jedediah Purdy

A No From The Yeses

“It’s hard to overstate the inhibition that has been squatting like an imp on the anxious chest of “responsible” opinion for two decades or more. Call it the inhibition of realism.” -Jedediah Purdy

There Are No Grownups Here

Why am I trying to do politics in the supermarket in the first place?

There Are No Grownups Here

Why am I trying to do politics in the supermarket in the first place?