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Category Archives: climate change
Oil to Flow Through DAPL
According to High Country News, oil is expected to flow beneath the Missouri River, through the Dakota Access Pipeline, as early as this week. A District of Columbia court has yet to release its ruling related to the Standing Rock Sioux and … Continue reading
Great Transportation Conspiracy
I was fascinated and disgusted to learn about the Great Transportation Conspiracy from Sheila Kennedy’s blog this morning. In 1949 National City Lines were convicted in Federal court for destroying the electrified rail and electric bus transit systems in 44 … Continue reading
Fundamental Choice
Despite the deluge of information, facts and opinions we are immersed in, we are each faced with one simple choice at this moment in time: Are we going to continue to participate in a society that is consuming resources at … Continue reading
No Longer Taken For Granted
Our evolving environmental disaster can no longer be denied or ignored. The status quo is neither just, moral, or survivable. In the preface to Coming Back to Life: The Updated Guide to the Work that Reconnects by Joanna Macy and Molly … Continue reading
Speaking at #noDAPL
Below is video from Friday’s Standing Rock Solidarity Rally, beginning with Brandi Herron speaking of things we are thankful for. That is followed by my remarks about how I came to refuse to have a personal automobile. I had said … Continue reading
Disconnect from Nature
“People who are involved with nature would not build pipelines.” Joshua Taflinger. I’ve been thinking about the truth of that statement. Joshua is one of the main organizers of our local #noDAPL efforts, and is involved with the White Pine … Continue reading
#noDAPL Thanksgiving
A smaller group of #noDAPL supporters gathered on the lawn of the Indiana State Capitol building this brisk, windy, sunny Friday afternoon. This gathering was in solidarity with the national #noDAPL march in Washington, DC, today. People made new acquaintances and … Continue reading
Reality Check
When the world around you seems to be unraveling, what do you do? I see: An environmental crisis primarily caused by greenhouse gas emissions from burning fossil fuels. Even knowing that, Americans continue their widespread use of personal automobiles. Continue … Continue reading
How to Give Up Your Car
My Friend Georgette sat me down last Sunday after Quaker meeting and basically said she wished I would tell people how to give up their personal automobiles, instead of just saying that is what we need to do, as I … Continue reading
7th Generation
Having written, once again, of my frustrations related to Quakers and the environment, more specifically about how Friends have not given up personal automobiles, I have to wonder if part of the problem is how I have been expressing this. … Continue reading
Quakers, social justice and revolution 