A real emergency declaration might be something like this: For example, once a climate emergency is declared, Biden could divert billions of dollars from the military toward constructing renewable energy projects. Under the Defense Production Act, a law invoked by the Trump administration to boost the supply of Covid-19 medical supplies, Biden could order businesses to manufacture more clean energy Continue Reading

Environmental advocates say that although the president acknowledges the climate crisis in his rhetoric, his administration continues to expand fossil fuel production. Source: What it might look like if President Biden really declared a climate emergency | Grist Yes,   “Acknowledging” the crisis doesn’t actually DO anything to address it.  Obviously,  it’s better to IGNORE it in practice (aka “expanding fossil Continue Reading

I see that the last time I used the Jetpack tool to import posts from Facebook was September of 2022. I don’t remember how far BACK I had gone when I last did that importing a year a half ago. Update: just checked it, and I had gone all the way back to the beginning, which is good. Now I Continue Reading

It’s a huge FAIL on the part of Social Media companies that our content is not ALL instantly available to us, forever. Facebook in particular. They (Facebook) were once very open in their API, and made it simple to save posts and comments to blogs, and vice versa. And , by many of the same mechanisms, interoperable, so that posts Continue Reading

Very formative and influential book for me. It also caused me to more keenly feel the way my places of employment missed the real power of the Web.

Don’t Look Up https://sharondelgado.org/2023/03/29/dont-look-up/ via @SharonD19031284 Sharon Delgado on how after the latest IPCC report, the media is hardly mentioning it. “Many of us in the global North are privileged enough to be able to find ways to insulate ourselves (temporarily) from the reality and impacts of climate change on our lives and hope that the fires and floods don’t Continue Reading

As much as I can appreciate the 9/11 reflection here, I cannot help but be struck by how we are in desperate need for grieving/lamenting the loss not just of A (meaning singular) “view”, but worldwide damage of breathtaking scale, being undertaken as we speak, every day, for the past 50+ years (even longer, but most of us knew so Continue Reading

This reflection on “the poor you will have with you always” initiated a similar illumination for me regarding the “other issues” which are central to our mission , but call upon us to recognize a very important matter to “Salvation”, which is the Restoration of Creation as central to our being able to respond to any “issues”. We need our Continue Reading

I shared this post from Shane yesterday, but another area where “Christians” need converting is to the notion that Christians are called to be participants in “keeping” Creation (and the word “to keep” there is the same as the one used in one of the very next Genesis stories: “Am I my brother’s keeper”). Late 20th and early 21st century Continue Reading

I shared this post from Shane yesterday, but another area where “Christians” need converting is to the notion that Christians are called to be participants in “keeping” Creation (and the word “to keep” there is the same as the one used in one of the very next Genesis stories: “Am I my brother’s keeper”). Late 20th and early 21st century Continue Reading

Bible with database, community forums, create narrative threads, link to Biblical resources Video meetings, extensions for Bible, extensions for video sharing, audio, group share of links/resources TV/movie watch partiesVR visions, coffeehouse VR app, ecological stories with VR for immersive eco-contemplation

“Realities” that are both “real”….. The “content” of our character: the stuff that , in FTF, we don’t “wear on our sleeve” by habit or in a native/ default form. And we keep it behind a socail barrier that is all too often rare, and most tragically, in FTF church. I have found that people find out more about me Continue Reading

All of the comedic Facebook jokes happening, and as I watch the above, and laugh (cuz Colbert is funny)….I also cringe a little when I see how some of the “blame” for the sociopathic “enflaming” going on is a matter of “the world” expressing itself “writ large” by the microscope and archiving of this human garbage spewing. Do we take Continue Reading