A few recent headlines on climate and environmental justice: While Shell’s Perdido platform has spilled 90,000 gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, and Shell faces a lawsuit on behalf of communities in Nigeria, Exxon’s shareholders have rejected proposals to include a climate change expert on their corporate board or consider how global carbon-reduction agreements would impact the company. Residents […]
What Renovating My Website Taught Me About Climate Change
You may have noticed some radical changes to this site in the last month. Yes, I’m renovating! Please excuse the dust. Last winter, I reviewed all of my web spaces, culled a few, downgraded others, and created an upgrade plan for this one. I literally drew out several new pages with fine-tip Sharpies and hand-lettered captions, set […]
Watch Disruption and Listen to Climate Stew
If you have 53 minutes today or at any time this week, you have the time to watch 350.org’s film, Disruption. It’s captioned in English. “DISRUPTION” – a film by KELLY NYKS & JARED P. SCOTT from Watch Disruption on Vimeo. “Climate change exacerbates every kind of social injustice that faith communities have fought against for […]
Updates: Tumbling into Fall
Where did the summer go? I blinked and it was gone. June: Sunlight Foundation’s Transparency Camp (#tcamp14) I met the Sunlight Foundation’s operations director Scott Wells in May this year at a mutual friend’s new pastorate—just a few days after I’d seen a promoted tweet about the foundation’s annual un-conference on transparency, open government, and civic technologies: […]