America's largest oil spill wasn't the Exxon Valdez in Alaska, it is in Newtown Creek, in New York City. Earth Magazine has the article: New York's Dirty Secret: The effort to clean up America's largest oil spill.Wedged between the hard-bitten boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens, N.Y., lies a six-kilometer-long slip of sickly green water called …
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No smoking
A bumper sticker on a sign on the Mt. Evans Highway, Colorado: Grace and Peace
India’s Katrina
Heavy monsoon flooding in India has claimed close to 1000 lives, and millions more have been displaced. The most dramatic event has been the abrupt change of course of the Kosi River in northern India. The Kosi River flows from the Himalaya Mountains into the Indian state of Bihar. The flood-swollen river has broken through …
Albert Mohler on “Nature-Deficit Disorder”
Albert Mohler writes about "Nature-Deficit Disorder" on his blog: Aliens in Creation -- A Generation of Nature Know-Nothings. Here are a few quotes: BBC Wildlife Magazine reports this month that only half of a sample of nine to eleven year old children in Britain could identify a daddy long-legs. A mere 62% rightly identified a …
Hot air and thin ice
One of the reasons I accept the idea that human activities, such as burning fossil fuels, is contributing to global warming beyond the Earth’s natural rhythms is that I find most arguments given by the opponents of this concept to be faulty. This is especially true, unfortunately, in the conservative Christian media. In my daily …
Vog
This might be a new word for you: vog. Vog is volcanic smog, produced when sulfuric acid and other gases emitted by volcanoes mixes with oxygen and water vapor in the presence of sunlight. It can cause or aggravate respiratory problems among humans and damage plants. Below is an image showing this noxious gas around …
Earth Day 2008 — Stewardship of the Environment
This item was originally posted in December 2006. In honor of Earth Day, it is now part of my blog recycling program. Because I have new readers of The GeoChristian, I will occasionally go back and re-use some of my best blog entries. The International Council on Biblical Inerrancy has produced a document called The …
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Earth Day 2008 — Christian Environmentalism
This item was originally posted for Earth Day, 2006 (Earth Day is held on April 22nd). It is now part of my blog recycling program. Because I have more people reading The GeoChristian now than I did then, I will occasionally go back and re-use some of my favorite blog entries. We all seem to …
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Earth Day 2008
Earth Day is coming on April 22nd. Here's a quote to get us thinking Biblically about our stewardship of the Earth: "There is one ultimate owner in the universe, God. All others are trustees." --John Piper, Seeing and Savoring Jesus Christ, p. 89 Grace and Peace
Green Gasoline
The burning of petroleum (and other fossil fuels) is a primary contributor to the increase of CO2 in the Earth's atmosphere. Burning of plant material, on the other hand, does not increase the concentration of CO2, because the carbon in the plant came from the atmosphere in the first place, through the process of photosynthesis. …
Southern Baptists and global warming
Don, at The Evangelical Ecologist, has a couple posts on a new statement written by some Southern Baptist leaders who feel their denomination's stance on anthropogenic climate change and other environmental issues is too weak: A Southern Baptist Declaration on the Environment and Climate Change An Open Letter to Southern Baptists One thing I appreciate …
Why have trees when you can grow them in Sim City?
AP/Yahoo News headline: Nature Giving Way to Virtual Reality As people spend more time communing with their televisions and computers, the impact is not just on their health, researchers say. Less time spent outdoors means less contact with nature and, eventually, less interest in conservation and parks. I've wondered about this as well. If children …
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Consider the ant
The quote in my previous post was a positive one about the need to care for nature. Here's a silly quote from a well-meaning environmentalist perspective: The life of an ant and that of my child should be granted equal consideration. --- Michael W. Fox, Vice President, Humane Society of the United States No, an …
Presidential quote on the environment
What American president said the following? “Restoring nature to its natural state is a cause beyond party and beyond factions. It has become a common cause of all the people of this country. It is a cause of particular concern to young Americans, because they more than we will reap the grim consequences of our …
Is Your Church Green?
World on the Web (World Magazine) asks Is Your Church Green? They aren't asking if your church is showing "An Inconvenient Truth" or if your pastor is preaching a ten-week series on global warming. The primary focus of the article is about evaluating our church buildings in terms of five environmental factors: sustainable site development …
Pollution and the Death of Man
I recently finished re-reading Pollution and the Death of Man by Francis Schaeffer. If you read only one book on why Christians should care about nature, this is the book. It is short, and fairly easy reading (by Schaeffer standards). It is not a book about "50 ways to be green;" rather it lays the …
The Christian global warming guy
The former head of the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) scientific assessment team is John Houghton, a physicist who has been studying carbon dioxide in the atmosphere for forty years. He has a better understanding of the science of atmospheric CO2 than just about anyone, so we should pay attention to what he says. …
Christmas tree recycling, Romanian style
This picture shows recycling on two levels. First, some enterprising person stole the manhole cover---a common problem here in Romania---and likely took it to a recycling center to sell as scrap iron. That leaves those of us who drive with a problem: a deep hole in the middle of a narrow street. The second type …
“I looked at the Christian community and saw ugliness”
A story from Pollution and the Death of Man, by Francis Schaeffer: Some years ago I was lecturing in a certain Christian school. Just across a ravine from the school there was what they called a "hippie community." On the far side of the ravine one saw trees and some farms. Here, I was told, …
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Time Magazine — Top 10 scientific discoveries for 2007
Time magazine's top ten science stories for 2007 include: #1 -- Stem cell breakthrough. It looks like we can now do everything from a person's own skin cells; there is no medical need for research with embryonic stem cells. As pro-life advocates have been saying all along, therapies developed from a person's own cells are …
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