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Green Circles Building Resilient Communities
February 21, 2023, from 6:30–8:30 p.m., PST - Ecumenical Ministries of Oregon (EMO) will have its first Green Circle meeting this year. ...

Rick Bonetti
Jan 16, 20232 min read




Republicans and Climate Change
At the end of 2022, NPR News pondered how the Federal government's response to the climate emergency will be affected as Republicans get...

Rick Bonetti
Jan 11, 20231 min read


Three Great Loves
In 2017 the United Church of Christ (UCC) created the 3 Great Loves campaign:: Love of Neighbor Love of Children Love of Creation "These...

Rick Bonetti
Jan 10, 20232 min read


Care For Our Common Home
Catholics care about climate change! Since 1991 US Catholic Bishops have been calling for action addressing global warming. In 2006, to...

Rick Bonetti
Jan 9, 20232 min read


Where Does Sustainability Meet Spirituality?
"The Earth is being devastated before our own eyes, primarily due to the unsustainable economic, ecological, societal, geopolitical,...

Rick Bonetti
Jan 6, 20231 min read


Roadmap to 2035
At its November 17, 2022 meeting, the Oregon Global Warming Commission (OGWC) discussed preliminary options for recommending an update to...

Rick Bonetti
Jan 4, 20232 min read


The Climate Crisis and the Church
Evangelical Christians in the United States, often part of the "Religious Right," may be skeptical about the urgency of the climate crisis, particularly if they have an apocalyptic, end-times view. But as the YouTube video above ( from Elim Pentecostal Churches ) demonstrates, this is not the case in the United Kingdom and in portions of the southern hemisphere already suffering the negative effects of global warming, caused largely by industrialized nations in the northe

Rick Bonetti
Jan 3, 20233 min read


Oregon Clean Energy Plan
In 2021, Oregon's Governor Brown signed House Bill (HB) 2021 into law, which provides an emissions-based clean energy framework for...

Rick Bonetti
Jan 1, 20232 min read


Ethical Living for Dangerous Times
Oliver Burkeman, writing in The Guardian on August 25, 2022, calls William MacAskill's new book What We Owe the Future a thrilling...

Rick Bonetti
Dec 26, 20221 min read
Economics of Happiness Conference
On October 27–29, 2017 Local Futures and David Korten’s Living Economies Forum presented at the Economics of Happiness Conference in Port...

Rick Bonetti
Dec 24, 20222 min read


SOU Climate Justice Conference 2023
On February 24-25, 2023 Southern Oregon University is having Climate Justice Conference 2023 "to discuss, learn, and take action toward...

Rick Bonetti
Dec 20, 20221 min read


United Nations Climate Action Now
At the United Nation's Stockholm+50 held June 2-3, 2022 (the week of World Environment Day), world leaders made calls for bold...

Rick Bonetti
Dec 19, 20221 min read


How to Find Joy in Climate Action
Ayana Elizabeth Johnson offers her views on "How to Find Joy in Climate Action" in her recent TED Talk. "We can all play a role in the...

Rick Bonetti
Dec 19, 20221 min read


Spiritual Progressive Festival of Lights
Chanukah is the Jewish eight-day, wintertime “festival of lights,” which begins this year Sunday night, Dec. 18, 2022 and continues...

Rick Bonetti
Dec 18, 20222 min read


January 2023 Eco-Spiritual Calendar
January 3, 2023 at 1:00-2:30 p.m. PST - Medford UCC will be having an ongoing book study and discussion of Cathedral on Fire: A Church...

Rick Bonetti
Dec 16, 20222 min read


The Great Turning
The collective mission of The Great Turning Initiative at Findhorn is "to cultivate a spiritually-awakened, holistic, life-affirming...

Rick Bonetti
Dec 13, 20221 min read


Imagining a Positive Future
Can you imagine a world where humans work together to reverse the negative effects of climate change and created a flourishing,...

Rick Bonetti
Dec 11, 20221 min read


The Great Climate Denial Con
In his December 8, 2022 podcast, Jordan B. Peterson interviewed conservative philosopher Alex Epstein about "Green Dystopia - the...

Rick Bonetti
Dec 10, 20222 min read


SOCAN's Master Climate Protector Class February 6, 2023
From SOCAN: "From rising temperatures and heat waves to water shortages and drought to reducing snowpack and increased wildfire risk, the...

Rick Bonetti
Dec 10, 20221 min read
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