environment

The Kabul Scarf
It’s New Year’s Eve, and last night my colleague at Waging Nonviolence, Eric Stoner, returned safely from Afghanistan. He was there as a journalist and activist with an envoy of…

Holy Mother of Bathsheets & the Clothesline Revival
KtB friend Alyce Santoro is at it again, with the simple wisdom of her ongoing Clothesline Revival: harness the advanced, clean, nuclear technology of the sun! This time, she’s taking…

Not Too Polluted Now, Are We?
BALTIMORE July 26, 2010 – Since many of the world’s holy rivers are now too polluted for ritual use, Baltimore is offering a unique solution: use our Inner Harbor! “It’s…

Louisiana Coast: Return to Sender
Dear France, You’ve been good friends. Great friends! And all that trouble you’re having with the Muslims and stuff? We totally get that. We’ve got our own problems in that…

Look What We Have Done
What does it take for us to confront the damage we are causing? In recent weeks, the two most self-defeating sources of energy in the United States—coal and oil—have been…

Do You Believe Oil Is Lighter Than Love?
The oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has engineers scrambling, environmentalists screaming through their tears, biologists getting their rubber gloves and cleaning supplies ready, the military finally being put…

Oh Maker, Let Me Die
For those in search of eternal life, this short film by American director Ramin Bahrani, and enticingly narrated by Werner Herzog, will make you pause. For those on a fruitless…

Abortion Issue: Solved!
Once we’re sufficiently full of plastics reproduction might cease anyway @ @

Keepin’ It Cool
Last week, I got all righteous and asked you to get off your fanny and do something about climate change. Today’s the day. 350.org has helped orchestrate something like 5,000…