Gratitude and wonder.

A Cornucopia of Thanks: our Thanksgiving 2014 post has multi-faith table prayer resources, and begins with a prayer:  God of sun and God of rain, In you, there is no dryness. In you, no weed chokes the root. No blight  …. read more and get the links to all the...

Food and Faith: videos

We’ve been invited to have a table at this conference, but we know many people who can’t get to the conference will want to hear the keynote speakers.  You can!. Watch both keynoters here and you’ll be marking your calendar and checking your mileage...

Cool Head, Warm Heart at TEDx

It’s been a while, but the video of my presentation at TEDx has finally been officially released.  You should be able to click it in the window above, or follow this link to YouTube.

I am really grateful to all the TEDx crew who helped put this together and especially to Katie Kirsch who produced the wonderful visuals.

The Science paper that I refer to is

Steffen, Will, Katherine Richardson, Johan Rockström, Sarah E. Cornell, Ingo Fetzer, Elena M. Bennett, R. Biggs, et al. 2015. “Planetary Boundaries: Guiding Human Development on a Changing Planet.” Science, January, 1259855. doi:10.1126/science.1259855.

Math and love: a cool head and a warm heart

John Roe is a Mathematics professor at Penn State, and a board member of PA IPL (the link on his name will give you a glimpse of his wide-ranging talents and interests). John also keeps a blog called Points of Inflection that is well worth following.  This semester he...

Our Voices: 8 nights of Hanukkah & Climate Change

Our friends at Our Voices (and the #LightForLima campaign) have partnered with Shomrei Breishit: Rabbi and Cantors For the Earth to create and share 8 videos of rabbis and cantors who have created special prayers or kavannot (meditations) for lighting the candles for...