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‘fair share’ ecological footprint is a term I just learned from this excellent article. By definition, we can not survive if we continue to use FIVE times what the earth can support. Morally and practically we have to live within … Continue reading →

Each month my home Quaker meeting, Bear Creek Friends, considers a set of questions, referred to as Queries, to help us reflect on various aspects of our spiritual lives.  This month’s query is about outreach–how we express our faith with … Continue reading →

The Guardian newspaper has a project called Keep It In the Ground.  Here is the latest topic: Carbon Bombs This is crucial to understand and help with if we are going to avoid death by CO2.  There is a years long … Continue reading →

Recent news describes new and extensive military style surveillance and techniques to deal with (attack) protestors.  Maybe the unrest around police brutality could give us a way to head some of this off. The program to supply police departments with military … Continue reading →

What do we do? Ferguson and Baltimore are the most visible signs of the underlying issues of widespread injustice in America. Money has purchased our political system, the media, and continues to fund the military at unconscionable levels, block all … Continue reading →

My friend Jim Poyser, Director of Earth Charter Indiana, made me aware of this exhibit of kids’ butterflies at the Artsgarden, downtown Indianapolis. He got me down there by complaining that the lighting was difficult–knowing by now I have a … Continue reading →

I was in Iowa this past weekend, attending Midyear Meeting of Iowa Yearly Meeting (Conservative) at my home (Quaker) meeting, Bear Creek, north of Earlham.  First Day morning Russ Leckband handed me this sign, which is from the concert Willie Nelson … Continue reading →

Indiana is in the spotlight at the moment, with the uproar over the recently passed, and ‘fixed’, Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA).  When even legal scholars say that RFRAs are complex and difficult to understand, I’m not even going to … Continue reading →