I go to a Republican church, and I vote almost exclusively Republican. When I lived in St. Louis, I also went to a Republican church, but the church next door was a Democrat church. You could tell by bumper stickers on the cars. This kind of bothers me. Would a Democrat feel comfortable in my …
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My home town of Billings, Montana is tied for being the city with the cleanest air in terms of ozone concentration in the entire United States, and is in the top 25 for cleanest air in terms of particulates. From MSNBC.com: Report lists worst, best cities for air quality Ahhh. To breathe some fresh Montana …
Monday, April 27th is the last day to vote for your favorite image from NASA's Earth Observatory. Grace and Peace
Out of over 3000 images that have appeared over the past ten years on the NASA Earth Observatory site, viewers have voted and narrowed it down to their favorite 50. From now until April 27th, viewers can vote for their favorite out of these 50, and the winning image will be announced on April 29th. …
Continue reading NASA Earth Observatory turns 10 — vote for your favorites — final round
From LiveScience.com: Got Nature? Why You Need to Get Out. We do better physically and mentally when we are regularly exposed to nature, even if it is the somewhat artificial surroundings of a city park. It is true for adults as well as for children. As Christians, we know something of the value of taking …
When walking through the forests and meadows of the Austrian and German Alps, we've joked about how they must come out with vacuum cleaners to keep everything so neat and orderly. Here's how the Swiss keep their part of the Alps clean: From MySwitzerland.com
The NASA Earth Observatory is ten years old (this is where I get many of the images I show on The GeoChristian). For most of that time, EO has featured a new image every day, for a total of over 3,000 fantastic images of the Earth (mostly). EO is asking for its viewers to vote …
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In the midst of economic hard times, there are still some employment bright spots. Being that I am looking for a job in the Earth sciences, it is encouraging to me that there are openings out there in hydrology and environmental science: HYDROLOGISTS From the New York Times: Hiring in Hydrology Resists the Slump: "Demand …
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There is no inherent reason for a scientist to not be a Christian, nor for a Christian to care deeply about the creation. From the Harvard Divinity Bulletin: The Greening of Jesus by Mark Pinsky. Riding the train down to London last summer, after a two-week fellowship session on science and religion at the University …
For Presidents Day, The Evangelical Ecologist points to the environmental legacy of Republican Presidents, even George W. Bush. See also the Republicans for Environmental Protection web site. Grace and Peace
From NASA's Earth Observatory: Brushfires in Southeast Australia: Grace and Peace
Dean Ohlman has 21 Reasons That Evangelicals Don't Get Creation Care over at Restoring Eden. Here are a few: 1. Evangelicals understand that people are special because we’re made in the image of God, but we typically fail to see that the non-human creation is also special because it was created “very good” by the …
From CNN: Surveyed scientists agree global warming is real. The results of a University of Illinois survey of scientists include the following: 90% of the scientists surveyed agreed that global temperatures have risen compared to levels from before 1800. 82% agreed that human activity been a significant factor in this increase of mean global temperatures. 97% of …
After a hiatus of a few months, The Evangelical Ecologist (The world isn't ours to mess up - Psalm 24:1) is back into blogging. Here are a couple of recent posts: Protecting your health and the environment at the same time Wolves out of the woods -- what happens when the Endangered Species Act works? …
If you are a regular reader of The GeoChristian, you know that I lean towards the validity of anthropogenic global warming (AGW), which is the idea that human activities are causing the Earth to become warmer. Much of the debate--on both sides--is driven by ideology more than science, but I have found the scientific arguments …
This item was originally posted in January 2008. I have added it to my blog recycling program. Because I have new readers of The GeoChristian, I will occasionally go back and re-use some of my favorite blog entries. I also wrote a longer review of the book Pollution and the Death of Man in January …
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President Bush hasn't been the favorite president of the environmental movement: pushing for oil drilling in pristine areas, pushing for relaxation of air and water quality regulations, uranium mining at the edge of the Grand Canyon, removing scientists from the process of evaluating endangered species, and low investment in renewable energy resources. A part of …
Continue reading President Bush’s environmental legacy gets a boost
We saw a couple of Chukars near our apartment yesterday. I thought they were quails at first, but they had no head plumes. We have a tattered Peterson's Field Guide to Western Birds in our car, that aided in the identification. If you like field guides, then you should be aware of enature.com, which has …
From Christianity Today: Richard Cizik Resigns from the National Association of Evangelicals Richard Cizik resigned Wednesday night as vice president for governmental affairs of the National Association of Evangelicals (NAE) during a week of growing uproar over his comments that he is shifting his views on same-sex unions. "Although he has subsequently expressed regret, apologized, …
I'll ask some easy questions: Would you rather have your child play outside or play video games? Which will be more valuable for the child? Which will be more valuable for the world? Headline: National Forest visitors down, no one knows why. In the years after World War II, Americans packed up their young families …
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