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A Challenge to Global Warming Skeptics (If you know any, see what they will do…)
By
Gus diZerega
After catching loud mouthed global warming skeptics lying about the weather and showing they don’t understand statistics. Nate Silver has issued them a challenge. For every day where they live that it’s a degree cooler than average, he’ll pay them $25. For every day it’s a degree warmer, they’ll pay him $25. If they are…
Spirit of Place
By
Gus diZerega
While visiting Walla Walla, Washington, where I had taught for some years at Whitman College, I took a side trip over to northeast Oregon, one of the most beautiful and least known parts of our country. There I visited the Zumwalt Prairie, which has been saved by the Nature Conservancy.
Passing of the Guard
By
Gus diZerega
Thomas Berry has died today. He had been a central figure in helping Western Christians, those willing to look and learn anyway, re-establishing connectedness with the sacred immanence we Pagans find in nature. Other giants in ecological and spiritual thought have also died recently: Arne Naess, who developed the term ‘deep ecology’ and did so…
Thoughts on Reading Derrick Jensen
By
Gus diZerega
When I first was made to know, in no uncertain terms, that the earth and everything in it was vastly more sentient than I had ever imagined, I looked long and hard for writings that could shed more light on my experiences. Especially I looked for stuff by modern Westerners. Mostly I found little. Most…
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