Coal Trains Threaten the Pacific Northwest  5/2/2013 
Article  What is especially not needed right now is more infrastructure to transport and burn more coal in the world. The fact is that coal is dirty energy, very dirty. It should be left in the ground.

Brand Portland — The Greenwashing Machine  3/23/2013 
Nicholas Caleb : Article  Nothing is sacred, market thinking trumps everything, even in Portland, Oregon. This is a manifesto for environmental justice.

Environmental Justice for All God’s Children  2/13/2012 
David Saperstein: Article  A new energy and environment declaration has been signed by Jewish leaders. Read why this is so important today.

Big Storms Require Big Government  1/26/2012 
Christian Parenti: Article  Climage change is real, 2011 was a year of extreme weather events requiring major responses from government without which communities cannot recover. Anti-government zealotry is clearly wrong-headed.

Going Green in the Local Church Brings New Members  1/6/2010 
Linda Bloom: Article  Some local churches are finding that concrete steps to care for creation provide an attractive witness to others. Read about what some United Methodists are doing.

Creation on the Cross: A Lutheran Earth Spirituality  1/4/2010 
Ed Knudson: Article  Adult Forum presentation, Agnus Dei Lutheran Church in Gig Harbor, Washington.

Church Bells Ring for Climate Change  12/15/2009 
Bill McKibben: Article  One of the foremost leaders against global warming talks about how it feels to be in a Lutheran cathedral in Copenhagen right now.

Interfaith Declaration on Climate Change  9/30/2009 
Article  An interfaith statement on climate change has been prepared for a United Nations meeting in Copenhagen in December.

World Heading for Major Upheavals in 2030  3/19/2009 
Article  An apocalyptic scientific scenario is presented by the chief science advisor in Britain, John Beddington.

World Water Day on March 22   3/19/2009 
Article  Access to water should be a human right says the Ecumenical Water Network of the World Council of Churches. Local congregations can be involved.

Congregations: Put a Farmers Market in Your Parking Lot  3/10/2009 
Article  The local food movement may provide opportunities for ministry in many local neighborhoods.

Why Societies Collapse  2/9/2005 
Comment  A review of Jared Diamond's book Collapse in Grist Magazine.

Intelligent Design is Politics not Science  2/7/2005 
Article  A 'Wedge Document' from the Discovery Institute in Seattle demonstrates that the so-called Intelligent Design or Creation Science movement is wholly fundamentalist politics.

Bush Misuses Science   8/8/2003 
Comment  A new report shows how the Bush administration distorts the facts.

The Success of Religion   10/17/2002 
Comment  A review of Darwin's Cathedral: Evolution, Religion, and the Nature of Society.

• 350.org. This is a key website in the environmental movement right now, founded by Bill McKibben.
• EcoFaith Recovery. A growing network of Lutherans and other Christians in the Portland metropolitan area – and expanding throughout Oregon and the Pacific Northwest – who are waking up to the profound ecological-economic-spiritual crisis we are facing on the planet.
• The Climate Reality Project. This includes a grassroots network of more than 4,000 trained volunteers who live and work all over the world, personally trained by the chairman, former Vice President Al Gore. It provides presentations to both educate people about climate change, and build local networks of climate activists who work in their own communities and countries demanding solutions.
• Eco-Justice program of the National Council of Churches. This site provides many resources for use in local congregations.
• Zygon Center at the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago. A center for the study of science and religion.
• Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences (CTNS)
• ELCA Alliance for Faith Science and Technology
• NRPE. The National Religious Partnership for the Environment is an association of independent faith groups across a broad spectrum: the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, the National Council of Churches U.S.A., the Coalition on the Environment and Jewish Life, and the Evangelical Environmental Network. Each Partner — in common biblical faith but drawing upon its disctinctive traditions — is undertaking scholarship, leadership training, congregational and agency initiative, and public policy education in service to environmental sustainability and justice. Together, they seek to offer resources of religious life and moral vision to a universal effort to protect humankind's common home and well-being on Earth.