On October 27, 2025, just ahead of the November 2025 COP30 summit in Brazil, billionaire investor Bill Gates issued a memo: Three Tough Truths About Climate advising world leaders that global warming “will not lead to humanity’s demise” and that efforts to reduce emissions are “diverting resources from the most effective things we should be doing to improve life in a warming world.” Is he right? Climate Scientists Respond With Urgency Covering Climate Now and Sammy Roth, wh

I am not a scientist, so I asked Google Gemini: "What is the evidence for climate change?" Gemini said: "The scientific evidence for climate change is extensive, with observations from the atmosphere, oceans, and land confirming global changes." "There is an overwhelming scientific consensus that human activities, particularly the burning of fossil fuels, are the primary cause." Key evidence includes:  Global Temperature Rise: Earth's average surface temperature has increase

. Churches take to the streets: WCC joins massive climate justice march in Brazil at COP30. COP30 in Brazil is in its final days, mid-November, Bloomberg reports : " Dozens of countries are pushing for the COP30 summit to deliver a ' road map away from fossil fuel use ' as its key outcome,.. At the United Nations meeting, representatives from the Marshall Islands, Colombia, the UK, Germany, Kenya, and Sierra Leone led a group of about 20 countries in calling for a path to sh

"The EcoCiv Institute (EcoCiv) first emerged as a vision of the scholar and activist John B. Cobb, Jr.  A professor at the Claremont Graduate University and Claremont School of Theology and a leader in ecological thinking. Prof. Cobb wrote the founding work in eco-theology in 1971,   Is It Too Late? A Theology of Ecology . Over the decades that followed, Cobb published over 50 books, inspired two generations of scholars and activists, founded multiple organizations, and org

Earthbound: God at the Intersection of Climate and Justice is an invitation to live sustainably, rooted in our faith and our shared call...

This Image was generated by ChatGPT and has errors in only showing 6 Ages (missing the Ocean Age 1,500-1,800 BCE and using a wrong image...

June 24, 2025 - Today the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network   (SDSN) released their 10th edition of the Sustainable...

"In a world grappling with converging crises, we often look outward – for new tech, new markets, new distractions. But the deeper issue...

Third Act Faith is currently offering an exploration of Joanna Macy’s Work That Reconnects, "a set of simple but profound practices to build strength and resilience for our work to heal the world.

Wikipedia defines " religious naturalism " as a "framework for religious orientation in which a naturalist worldview is used to respond...

On March 12, 2025 a Creation Justice Webinar: America in Search of a Soul was co-hosted by the Rev. Dr. Brooks Berndt , who serves as...

In the YouTube video above, Project Drawdown Executive Director Jonathan Foley, Ph.D., discussed the importance of putting our energy...

August 27, 2024 , at 6 p.m. PDT - SOCAN's August monthly meeting will be Farming Sustainably at SOU, a field trip to the SOU farm at...

In her 2020 book Re-Enchanting the Earth: Why AI Needs Religion, Ilia Delio says: "The shift from the individual to the posthuman in the...

What does it feel like to live near an incinerator that burns trash? On July 18, 2024, Story of Stuff will delve into that question in...

Inside the Movement (ITM) is "a team of climate activists and journalists - the folks at EarthRise, Fossil Free Media, One Earth, The...

"The general public thinks Biden isn't doing enough to bring energy prices down. The environmental left thinks Biden has sold out to Big Oil

Yale University and Coursera are now offering free Journey of the Universe courses "to understand who we are, where we come from, and where

Cathy McMorris Rodgers has decided to not run for reelection after 20 years in the House, but she supports H.R. 1023 to repeal section...

According to Gallup, 39% of Americans say electric vehicles help climate change at least a fair amount, but only 4% currently own...

Source: https://www.usbr.gov/pn/hydromet/roguetea.html The State of Oregon Water Resources Department is updating its Integrated Water...

May 24-25, 2024 - Claremont ECO Forum is having an in-person forum: The Great Turning: Towards an Ecological Civilization Aiming at the...

On Thursday, April 25, 2024, from 3:00 p.m.-4:15 p.m. PDT, Creation Justice Ministries (CJM) is presenting Culture of Preparedness, the...

Earth Month Ecochallenge is an effort to expand Earth Day awareness and activism over an entire month. Running from April 1st to April...

"A key to combating climate change is action." To this end, NETA offers a series of short documentaries called 50 States of...

Photo by Torsten Dederichs dederichs.info via Unsplash Zoya Teirstein writes in the January 30, 2024 edition of Grist.: "Climate Change...

Oregon Climate Action Hub (ORCAH) is on a mission "to empower ALL Oregonians to take effective climate action." Their goal is "to build...

On December 19, 2023, Rogue Valley Times published a Guest Column by Alan Journet urging the City of Medford Oregon to approve a Climate...

John B. Cobb Jr., is convinced that "humanity’s most urgent task is to live in harmony with and, thereby, preserve the ecosphere on which...

USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map, 2023. from the Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture. Accessed from...

The Earth Charter (EC) is "a document crafted by visionaries over twenty years ago with sixteen principles powering a global movement....

Southern Oregon Climate Action Now (SOCAN) has announced that "our fundraising campaign “Reaching a New Level of Climate Action” was very...

SOU President Rick Bailey tells Becs Walker "The University anticipates generating 100 percent of its own electricity by 2033. "Southern...

Many decades ago I studied geography (regional, physical, human, economic, historical, political, and urban) because a spatial...

" According to Brad Reed, Campaign Director for Building Resilience, "Our buildings and homes account for more than one-third of the...

The Climate Forests Campaign reflects the interests of dozens of organizations wanting to conserve our remaining older forests and trees...

"The Earth is being devastated before our own eyes, primarily due to the unsustainable economic, ecological, societal, geopolitical,...

Evangelical Christians in the United States, often part of the "Religious Right," may be skeptical about the urgency of the climate...

At the United Nation's Stockholm+50 held June 2-3, 2022 (the week of World Environment Day), world leaders made calls for bold...

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...

From SOCAN: "In September 2019, the Southern Oregon Climate Smart (SOCS) Working Group was formed to confer about and collaboratively...

"In August 2021 the Oregon Global Warming Commission (OGWC) approved a Natural and Working Lands Proposal in response to Governor Brown’s...

Image from Ashland YAC Instagram page. The future belongs to young people and their voices are being heard by some local politicians. In...

SOCAN's Monthly Meeting topic is Youth v. Gov: Updates from Our Children's Trust - a presentation by Phil Gregory, Of Counsel with Our...

Some conservative, religious people may harken back to an imagined better past like the 1950s, or imagined utopian place like the Garden...

From Alexandra de la Torre of Rogue Climate: Webinar: What is the GTN Xpress Pipeline? When: Tuesday, August 9, 2022, at 12 p.m. Where:...

Photo credit: Senate Democrats, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons On Wednesday, July 27, 2022, Senator...

The Living Earth Movement, founded in February 2022, is "a collection of leaders in the fields of theology, business, science, activism...

On September 17, 2018 Medford Congregational United Church of Christ made application to become a Creation Justice Church. They outlined...

From June 13-15, 2022 Creation Justice Ministries hosted “Pastoral Care for Climate: Weaving Science, Theology, and Justice” at Duke...