Climate and Food Security: Growing a Sustenance Garden

Climate and Food Security: Growing a Sustenance Garden

  Carl Sigel The latest report from the U. N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Climate and Land released on August 8, 2019 “warns that climate change is exacerbating pressures on the global food supply, threatening millions more with hunger, and potentially raising food prices for 

RESTORING GOD’S EARTH: A YEAR OF PERSONAL ACTION

RESTORING GOD’S EARTH: A YEAR OF PERSONAL ACTION

  By: Carl Sigel Anglican theologian and biblical scholar, N. T. Wright, in his recent essay, Jesus is Coming – Plant a Tree! said that, “for early Christians, the resurrection of Jesus launched God’s new creation upon the world,” … and “God’s kingdom would come 

Learning to use the land so it produces fewer greenhouse gases

Learning to use the land so it produces fewer greenhouse gases

Eleanor Milne While most people are familiar with the link between fossil fuel burning and the release of greenhouse gases, not so many are aware of the role land use management can play in mitigating climate change. The full story can be found at: https://www.unenvironment.org/news-and-stories/story/learning-use-land-so-it-produces-fewer-greenhouse-gases. (Posted 

Exotic Plants

Exotic Plants

by Bill Schlesinger It’s nearly August, and as I look out on the meadow that surrounds our house in Maine, I see a profusion of goldenrods and asters across the landscape. The meadow derives from abandoned pastures that were grazed by dairy cows until the 

Humus

Humus

by Bill Schlesinger Among my peers I am perhaps best known for developing one of the first estimates of the amount of carbon in the world’s soils.  Soils contain organic matter, also known as humus, that has about 50% carbon content by weight.  Added up 

Becoming the Good Soil: A Theological Understanding

Becoming the Good Soil: A Theological Understanding

By: Carl Sigel In the modern world, it behooves us take a broader and more practical view of God’s commandment to keep the garden. When humankind inherited the garden, the soil was “good” and furthermore, there was a natural process for maintaining the fertility. Now,