Comments on: Climate change

By: Tess

Tess — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 19:50:04 +0000

@diantha: yes, I veer between pessimism and cautious optimism when I see some of the changes people are making – often people I wouldn’t expect to change.
@SS: thank you, and good luck with the other resident of your home!
@Rebecca (or should I say Bob) I love this thought about God’s plan, and it fits well with the whole concept of free will. I giggled at the “jumper” comment – what do you guys call them then, sweaters?

By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 06:21:50 +0000

Hi Tess, Great post with great suggestions. Not only do I wear jumpers around the house (it is so fun when I am reminded by words like “jumper” that you are way over there in Britain somewhere), I also wear gloves! I look like Bob Cratchitt in A Christmas Carol. Your post is so timely as my family and I just returned from an Earth Stewardship Ministry team meeting at our church this evening. We do all sorts of projects that help people save energy, save money and save the planet! I so agree with Kigen, this is a moral and religious issue. Here is another poem:

Watching a Documentary About Polar Bears Trying to Survive on the Melting Ice Floes

That God had a plan I do not doubt.
But what if His plan was, that we would do better?

Sunrise Sis, I know what you mean about the frustrations of getting people to turn off/turn down. Remember when our parents said, “Your running up the light bill!”? Now I say, “You’re burning up the planet!”

By: Sunrise Sister

Sunrise Sister — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 03:48:55 +0000

Excellent post. Loved the tips re water and lights, etc. I work diligently on a half dozen of the ways to lower our carbon print but in our household there are TWO of us and one just doesn’t get it re the lights and the thermostat and the water – frustrating – but I just have to work a little harder:)

xoxo

By: diantha

diantha — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 00:10:35 +0000

Wonderful informative post, Tess! Whether or not there is global warming becomes less the issue to me than making people conscious of how their actions impact the planet. This, to me, is the highest affect of all this talk and debate! People are actually making changes, buying energy efficient cars and appliances, turning off lights, conserving water….etc. It’s just wonderful that people are making these shifts. At the very least, Mother Earth will feel a bit better and who knows? Maybe we can really make her well again! Thanks for your lovely contribution! xo

By: Tess

Tess — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 19:50:13 +0000

Barbara, I liked you unofficial post – succinct and helpful.
kigen, I love those last few words you quote from Dickinson, and I’m going to enjoy exploring The Feminist Shepherd in the days to come.

By: kigen

kigen — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 15:49:13 +0000

Dear Tess,
this is a mighty fine post, beautifully organized and researched!

I worked for a number of years as an administrator on a university environmental project and am an avid environmentalist. However I transformed the Environmental Blog Action into Feminist Theology — as that’s where my energies are directed at this time, please see:

EMILY DICKINSON’S “SHEETS OF PLACE”
http://feministshepherd.blogspot.com/2009/10/emily-dickinsons-sheets-of-place.html

I will answer your reminder too and add more eco-theology to the blog as I go along. I would love to see environmentalism and calls for answers to global warming broadcast from every church pulpit, synagogue and temple in the land!

Emily Dickinson says:

“In the name of the Bee –
And of the Butterfly –
And of the Breeze — Amen!”

By: Barbara

Barbara — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 22:31:01 +0000

I had an unofficial Blog Action Day post last Thursday. Unofficial because I did not want to give away certain information.