The Roadblocks to Sustainability and How we Begin to Tackle Them

September 12, 2012 By Leave a Comment
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David Owen has long been one of our favorite thinkers here at Englewood; his book Green Metropolis was selected by The Englewood Review of Books as one of the Best Books of 2009.  [ Read our review // Watch a video of a lecture related to the book ] I was recently alerted to the fact that he published a new book earlier this year (that somehow slipped under our radar), entitled: The Conundrum: How Scientific Innovation, Increased Efficiency, and Good Intentions Can Make Our Energy and Climate Problems Worse Paperback: Riverhead Books, 2012. Buy now:  [ Amazon ]  [ Kindle ] I was … [Read more...]

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What is Sustainability?

September 5, 2012 By 2 Comments
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Tomorrow I have the opportunity to go an hour or so up the road from here to talk with some students at my alma mater, Taylor University. The primary question that we will tackle will be what is sustainability?  And how do we pursue it? I'm sure we'll have some good conversation along the way.  I will argue that our best hope of a sustainable way of life is in the revival of parish life, (a term I'm borrowing from the good folks at the Parish Collective), by which I mean a rich and distinctive local culture that is catalyzed (but not controlled) by the churches in a particular place. … [Read more...]

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