There is no single way to be a leader in EcoFaith Recovery. Different leaders from different contexts living in different parts of the country choose to live out their faith in the public arena in different ways. Rev. Janet Parker,
Museum of Science & Industry Poem by (EcoFaith Leader Glee Lumb)
Today on the EcoFaith Recovery blog is a poem by leader Glee Lumb. The inspiration for the poem is: I wrote it all at once as I followed my children through OMSI last week. Having spent the summer visiting and
A Different Kind of “Hearing” (by EcoFaith Leader Anna Barnett)
In the past week I’ve been to two public hearings: one for the proposed Pembina propane terminal on the Columbia, and one for community input to the Portland Police Department’s new Citizen Oversight and Advisory Board. It’s a strange format
Four Scenarios (by EcoFaith Intern Dave Pritchett)
David Holmgren, a permaculturalist and ecologist, identifies four major possibilities the world face in light of the twin giants of peak oil and anthropogenic climate change. He plots these possibilities with respect to the rate of fossil fuel collapse and
My Story (by Cecil Denney, a teacher/leader in our Biocommons Course)
Cecil Denney is part of the Fall 2014 Organizing in the Biocommons teaching team and a member at Lake Oswego United Methodist Church. **** My Story There is a point to this story. If you look around, there are a lot
You Are Invited to the Biggest Climate Movement Demonstration in History (by Bill McKibben of 350.org)
Dear Friends, Earlier this spring the chaplain at Harvard joined students sitting-in outside the Harvard president’s office to demand climate action. He took the bullhorn for a minute, and thanked the organizers for “giving me the chance to be the