Rising up, calling up

In the end, 30 senators attended the climate change all-nighter — nearly 1/3 of the Senate!   While neither Mr. Toomey nor Mr. Casey participated, both now have a clearer sense of the concern of some of their constituents, thanks to 22 overnight calls EACH from...

Slumber party!

When we heard that 20 or more Senators would be pulling an all-nighter on March 10-11 to draw attention to climate change, we got pretty excited.  How could we support them?  Pajamagrams?  Deliveries of tasty snacks made of foods threatened by climate change?   Both...

Positively Green 2014

On March1, PSU IPL held the 4th annual Positively Green .   By afternoon the participants had made and installed 22 window inserts!   Check out the finished product in the photo to the right — you’re looking through 2 “panes” of insulating plastic...

A gathering of snowflakes.

After the week we’ve had in PA, most of us are feeling pretty intimately acquainted with the weight and power of impossibly light, gentle snowflakes, gathered together.  As we’ve been mulling on the theme of Hope, it seemed timely to repost this story from...

Disasterproof?

(Reposted from Points of Inflection) High above Yosemite Valley, I’ve just descended to a set of rappel anchors – two bolts set in the rock, solid and secure but looking very small amid the shimmering granite extending above me, below me, to the left and...

Let me be blunt.

Dear Administrator McCarthy, As a person of faith, I am greatly concerned about climate change. All levels of government must act quickly to limit industrial carbon pollution. Climate change is already becoming apparent in Pennsylvania, the country, and the world. As...