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ROGUE VALLEY VOICE
Advocating for a Sustainable Future
Our voice in southern Oregon for emerging, sustainability
Our Mission is to bring forth an environmentally sustainable, spiritually fulfilling, socially just human presence on this planet. This blog complements the Rogue Valley Voice Facebook page.
Recent Blog Posts
Rick Bonetti
- 2 days ago
- 2 min
GTN XPress Update
As previously reported in November 2022,, "FERC is expected to make its final decision on the GTN XPress proposal from TC Energy on...
Rick Bonetti
- 2 days ago
- 1 min
Resilient, Efficient Buildings Task Force
In 2022 the Oregon State Legislature established the Joint Task Force on “Resilient, Efficient Buildings (REBuilding).” This Committee,...
Rick Bonetti
- 3 days ago
- 2 min
Rogue Basin Water Action Community
The Rogue Basin Water Action Community 2023 Kick-off Event is scheduled for Saturday, February 4, 2023, from 9 a.m. to Noon at the...
Rick Bonetti
- 3 days ago
- 1 min
Interfaith Center for Sustainable Development
The Interfaith Center for Sustainable Development (ICSD), based in Jerusalem, is a non-profit organization, which according to its...
Rick Bonetti
- 4 days ago
- 2 min
PCUSA Climate Care Challenge
According to the Presbyterian Church (USA) website “Earth-keeping today means insisting on sustainability—the ongoing capacity of natural...
Rick Bonetti
- 6 days ago
- 3 min
Worth More Standing
The Climate Forests Campaign reflects the interests of dozens of organizations wanting to conserve our remaining older forests and trees...
Rick Bonetti
- 7 days ago
- 1 min
SOCAN Monthly Meeting To Feature Senator Merkley
Southern Oregon Climate Action Now's (SOCAN) monthly general public meeting, on Tuesday January 31, 2023 at 6:00 p.m, will feature Oregon...
Rick Bonetti
- Jan 16
- 2 min
Green Circles Building Resilient Communities
On February 21, 2023, from 6:30–8:30 p.m., PST, Ecumenical Ministries of Oregon (EMO) will have its first Green Circle meeting this year....
Rick Bonetti
- Jan 11
- 1 min
Republicans and Climate Change
At the end of 2022, NPR News pondered how the Federal government's response to the climate emergency will be affected as Republicans get...
Rick Bonetti
- Jan 10
- 2 min
Three Great Loves
In 2017 the United Church of Christ (UCC) created the 3 Great Loves campaign:: Love of Neighbor Love of Children Love of Creation "These...
Rick Bonetti
- Jan 9
- 2 min
Care For Our Common Home
Catholics care about climate change! Since 1991 US Catholic Bishops have been calling for action addressing global warming. In 2006, to...
Rick Bonetti
- Jan 9
- 2 min
February 2023 Climate Action Calendar
February 4, 2023, from 9 a.m. to Noon the Rogue Basin Water Action Community will have its 2023 Kick-off Event at the Medford Library...
Rick Bonetti
- Jan 6
- 1 min
Where Does Sustainability Meet Spirituality?
"The Earth is being devastated before our own eyes, primarily due to the unsustainable economic, ecological, societal, geopolitical,...
Rick Bonetti
- Jan 5
- 1 min
Oregon Interfaith Earth Summit
Sunday, February 5, from 1:30 to 5:30 p.m. PST - Join other people of faith in the Rogue Valley who care about the environment and...
Rick Bonetti
- Jan 4
- 2 min
Roadmap to 2035
At its November 17, 2022 meeting, the Oregon Global Warming Commission (OGWC) discussed preliminary options for recommending an update to...
Rick Bonetti
- Jan 3
- 3 min
The Climate Crisis and the Church
Evangelical Christians in the United States, often part of the "Religious Right," may be skeptical about the urgency of the climate...
Rick Bonetti
- Jan 1
- 2 min
Oregon Clean Energy Plan
In 2021, Oregon's Governor Brown signed House Bill (HB) 2021 into law, which provides an emissions-based clean energy framework for...
Rick Bonetti
- Dec 26, 2022
- 1 min
Ethical Living for Dangerous Times
Oliver Burkeman, writing in The Guardian on August 25, 2022, calls William MacAskill's new book What We Owe the Future a thrilling...
Rick Bonetti
- Dec 23, 2022
- 2 min
Economics of Happiness Conference
On October 27–29, 2017 Local Futures and David Korten’s Living Economies Forum presented at the Economics of Happiness Conference in Port...
Rick Bonetti
- Dec 20, 2022
- 1 min
SOU Climate Justice Conference 2023
On February 24-25, 2023 Southern Oregon University is having Climate Justice Conference 2023 "to discuss, learn, and take action toward...
Rick Bonetti
- Dec 19, 2022
- 1 min
United Nations Climate Action Now
At the United Nation's Stockholm+50 held June 2-3, 2022 (the week of World Environment Day), world leaders made calls for bold...
Rick Bonetti
- Dec 19, 2022
- 1 min
How to Find Joy in Climate Action
Ayana Elizabeth Johnson offers her views on "How to Find Joy in Climate Action" in her recent TED Talk. "We can all play a role in the...
Rick Bonetti
- Dec 18, 2022
- 2 min
Spiritual Progressive Festival of Lights
Chanukah is the Jewish eight-day, wintertime “festival of lights,” which begins this year Sunday night, Dec. 18, 2022 and continues...
Rick Bonetti
- Dec 16, 2022
- 2 min
Household Carbon Footprints
A study by Berkeley researchers Christoper Jones and Daniel M. Mammen studied the Spatial Distribution of U.S. Household Carbon...
Rick Bonetti
- Dec 16, 2022
- 2 min
January 2023 Climate Action Calendar
January 3, 2023 at 1:00-2:30 p.m. PST - Medford UCC will be having an ongoing book study and discussion of Cathedral on Fire: A Church...
Rick Bonetti
- Dec 13, 2022
- 1 min
The Great Turning
The collective mission of The Great Turning Initiative at Findhorn is "to cultivate a spiritually-awakened, holistic, life-affirming...
Rick Bonetti
- Dec 11, 2022
- 1 min
Imagining a Positive Future
Can you imagine a world where humans work together to reverse the negative effects of climate change and created a flourishing,...
Rick Bonetti
- Dec 10, 2022
- 2 min
The Great Climate Denial Con
In his December 8, 2022 podcast, Jordan B. Peterson interviewed conservative philosopher Alex Epstein about "Green Dystopia - the...
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