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Save Bill and Lou Tour: In Sunny Florida, Lou Lives on for Ever

Lou is no more. Lou lives on for ever.

Save Bill and Lou Tour: First Stop, Texas

They were wearing cowboy hats and leather boots and they stared at the Save Bill and Lou poster on the side of our Prius. We had just crossed into West Texas on Insterstate 10 and had stopped for a bite of lunch.

SuperStorm Bill and Lou

You have probably heard about Bill and Lou. They are the oxen who served the community of Green Mountain College (GMC) in Vermont for 11 years until Lou stepped into a woodchuck hole and worsened his left...

When Will Al Gore Go Vegan?

Former Vice President Al Gore, the unofficial leader of the world environmental movement, is not yet vegan. Just today, the New Yorker magazine reported that Al Gore was the chief guest at an eight course dinner event in Las Vegas earlier...

Why Religions Must Unite Around Veganism

Wouldn't it be amazing if the Dalai Lama follows up his words with this concrete action and urges his Facebook friends to go Vegan? With signatories of the Durban Addendum such as Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Ela Gandhi (the granddaughter of Mahatma Gandhi), Bishop Geoff Davies,...

Happy Cows and Pink Elephants

Happy Cows and Pink Elephants are on my mind. After last month's encounter with Al Gore and the Pink Elephant of animal agriculture that he's largely ignoring in his climate change slide show, I've been bombarded with emailed reverberations from the...

When East meets West on Climate Change

A dear colleague observed recently that I seem to have lost faith in the power of governmental policies and markets to solve climate change. Having attended the UN COP-17 meeting in Durban, South Africa last year and watched the sausage making in the international policy...

Dancing with Al Gore

I wish Al Gore well in his dance. As far as I am concerned, he is part of the Dancer who is sending me messages with respect to my own blinders. And I better pay attention and listen.

The Hole Problem

Mr. Gore's slide show itself has devolved into an "I'm right and you're wrong" style diatribe which is unlikely to win the hearts and minds of the intended audience. And therein lies the true tragedy of the training event, that almost 1000 people flew in...

Kimaya: A Story of Love

How much will one man do to ensure a safe future for his 21-month old granddaughter?

Al Gore and the Pink Elephant

At the root of Al Gore’s Climate Reality Project, there’s a gaping hole where half of the solution has gone missing and isn’t being talked about. In that hole, a very conspicuous pink elephant is flapping her ears.

Unite and Triumph

At their core, all religions are based on the foundation of compassion. Even secular humanism, which admits to no God, is based on compassion. That is a powerful basis for unity, not division.

When Science Discovers Karma is Real

There are two kinds of denial that have become part of our psychological response: 1) the denial that it is even happening, which is rapidly becoming impossible to sustain given the evidence, and 2) the denial that our personal consumption patterns need to change in...

What Would Gandhi Do On Climate Change?

Carbon Tax and Dividend is like Gandhi agitating for an Oppression tax to be levied on white train travelers, to be collected and redistributed equally to all white train travelers in the form of dividends, so that they have an economic incentive to reduce their...

The Peter Paul Debate

Paul is right. The Earth is Full and we better understand that our adolescent growth spurt is over and that we need to adjust to an age of limited growth with an ever increasing maturity. 

What we Eat vs. How we Cook it: A Report from the Field

It turns out that it is far more important to change what people eat than how they cook their food.

Arithmetic and Climate Science

When climate scientists continue to consume animal foods, while talking about catastrophic weather events in the coming decades if we don't make policy changes, I personally find it difficult to take them seriously.

A Gross Miscalculation in Climate Science

The human impact on the carbon cycle is much bigger than we thought. But on the flip side, this also means that the carbon sinks of the natural world are much more powerful than we thought.

Second Hand Diet

Second hand diet is not such a well known social behavioral issue even though the harmful effects of second hand diet are far worse than the harmful effects of second hand smoke.

Tar Sands Mining, Mountain Top Removal Mining, Factory Farming and Yoga

Every atrocity committed by humans stems from an underlying absurdity in their belief systems. The belief systems may be traditional and cultural, but as Brian McLaren points out, "Uncritical loyalty to your ancestors may implicate you in a crime against your descendants." 

The Durban Platform vs. the Durban Addendum

"While Climate Change is a symptom, the fever that our Earth has contracted, the underlying disease is the disconnection from Creation that plagues human societies throughout our Earth.

We, the undersigned, pledge to heal this disconnection by promoting and exemplifying Compassion for all Creation  (my emphasis) in...

Update on COP-17 from Durban, South Africa

We, the undersigned, pledge to heal this disconnection by promoting and exemplifying Compassion for all Creation in all our actions.

Signed:

Archbishop Desmond Tutu

Bishop Geoff Davies, Executive Director of South African Faith Communities' Environment

An Inconvenient Failure

Climate change is a symptom while the extinction of Life is the true underlying disease that needs treatment.

Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth (AIT) focused on the wrong problem.

The Ethical Economist

"I don’t understand how there isn’t—millions of people can all of a sudden go out in the streets in the United States and begin destroying things, I don’t know. That may perfectly happen. You know, the situation is absolutely dramatic. " - Manfred Max Neef