aggregated from: crosscut.com : Mossback

With the arrival of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, religion and values reporter Douglas Todd of the Vancouver Sun has a couple of interesting stories about the state of Islam in Europe and Canada. He reviews the concept of Eurabia, the idea that ...

topics: conservative, environment, environmentalism, sustainability

aggregated from: crosscut.com : Mossback

People in Seattle are green green green. We're a leader on Kyoto, we hate plastic bottles and shopping bags, and our politicians often jockey over who is more green than the other. Candidates for office vie for key endorsements from groups like the C...

topics: business, candidate, city-council, environment, environmentalism

aggregated from: Discovery Blog

Secondhand Smoke, the popular bioethics blog of Discovery Institute Senior Fellow Wesley J. Smith, is now being hosted by First Things, the distinguished journal of religion and culture. Secondhand Smoke, described by Smith as Your 24/7 seminar o...

topics: business, environmentalism

aggregated from: Slog

Zizek writes:With regard to this inherent instability of nature, the most consequent was the proposal of a German ecological scientist back in 1970s: since nature is changing constantly and the conditions on Earth will render the survival of humanity...

topics: business, environment, environmentalism

aggregated from: crosscut.com : Mossback

It's a perfect place for a Northwest lesson in spirituality. We're in Seattle's Town Hall, a former church-turned-civic-space. On stage is Lee Stetson, an actor who's made a career out of channeling the spirit of John Muir. For decades, he's brought ...

topics: amazon, economy, environment, environmentalism, government

aggregated from: American Empire

After the disaster that was the disaster movie The Day After Tomorrow , you might have thought that preachy, anti-human, pro-gaia, people-are-a-blight-on-the-planet feature films would have gone the way of the dodo bird.But it is not to be so. ...

aggregated from: Dateline Earth

A column out today by the fellows who wrote The Death of Environmentalism says enviros and Dems have completely misread the public on the offshore-oil-drilling debate....

aggregated from: Slog

After I wiped the tears from my eyes when Michelle finished her awesome speech, I found myself bereft. Oh, so far from the action! (I miss you Eli, Annie, and Charles!)So I went online to look at the online gallery of Obama art sponsored by moveon.or...

topics: artist, environmentalism, gallery, obama

aggregated from: West Sound Politics

For children of the 60s, like me, this presidential election represents a turning point in American history. It seemingly represents a lot of the change we all believed in and worked for.Senator Barack Obama, a highly charismatic African-American man...

topics: activist, bremerton, candidate, clinton, committee