Occupation: Author Birth: 1973
The word "evangelist" means someone who spreads good news. Studying the impacts of climate change as I do, it's hard to come up with good news. In ma….
Where I live, if I put solar panels on my roof I'm not allowed to sell that energy back to the grid. I can't change that restriction myself. I need o….
I feel like a physician, one who's done a scan of the patient's body and seen evidence of a potentially serious issue..
If you can frame climate change as an alternate religion, or as one more of those issues where the pointy-headed liberal atheist scientists are tryin….
For many of us, our values come from our faith..
If we smoke, there's no magic number of cigarettes, or number of years, that we can smoke before we know we'll get lung cancer..
I think it's interesting that the United States and Australia are two of the most individualistic nations in the entire world in terms of national pe….
We must prepare for a changing climate by incorporating climate preparedness into every aspect of our planning - for food, water, health, energy, eve….
It's easier to deny the reality of the problem altogether than acknowledge that it is real..
The first thing we can do as individuals and as communities, like a school or a university or a church, is cut our energy use. Do an energy audit or ….
We don't have a hundred years to fix climate change. We don't have a hundred years to wait until we've built all these bridges and rapport and scient….
One of the biggest issues with renewables right now is the fact that if the wind isn't blowing, if the sun isn't shining, we don't have energy. Many ….
I feel that one of the most important things I can do is connect climate change to the values, the faith, and the issues we already care about. And i….
Huge advances in clean energy technology are happening all the time. Solar and wind are booming. New ways to generate energy from our windows, the pa….
My faith is an enormous motivator for me to engage as well, because climate change is not just an issue that affects the entire planet, it is one tha….
When I talk to my neighbor, or to someone at church who doesn't accept that the planet is changing, I know that they don't know any better. They've b….
We have to fix climate change with the people we have right now, and to a large extent with the perspectives we have right now as well..
Our carbon emissions have to eventually go to zero. We have to. Otherwise we're never going to have a stable climate and that's what our goal is for ….
It is certainly true that conservative Christians are much more likely to doubt the reality of climate change than mainline Christians or the unaffil….
There's no question that natural gas is a lot better than coal or oil, in the sense that natural gas produces less carbon per unit of energy produced..
I don't think there are any churches that have "Thou shalt not believe in climate change" written in their actual statement of faith..