We just passed 8,000 signatures for A Pagan Community Statement on the Environment! From over 80 countries around the world! We have just 10 more days until Earth Day 2016. Help us get 10,000 signatures. Here’s what you can do: Share this link on Facebook and other social media by clicking the links at the bottom of this post. Pick one part of the Statement that you especially like and share it via Facebook and other social media. Send the... Read more
While climate change affects us all, there are some populations who are more vulnerable than others, including low-income communities, communities of color, coastal communities, and communities on the front lines of fossil fuel extraction. One way you can honor the Earth this Earth Day is to become a social justice warrior -- and to reclaim that term from its detractors. Read more
One thing you can do to honor the Earth this Earth Day is to help build communities that are local, sustainable, and resilient. Communities are created by doing things together. Small communities can find alternative, extra-economic ways of doing what we need done ... by doing them together. Read more
Many people may not realize that a major source of carbon emissions and pollution is the food industry -- especially the transportation of food and the meat industry. Here are some things you can do to change your relationship with food this Earth Day. Read more
Godless Paganism: Voices of Non-Theistic Paganism is 50% off for the paperback edition -- which means we are selling it virtually at cost. I encourage everyone to buy the ebook version instead. The ebook is cheaper, more environmentally responsible, (and we make more money off it). Read more
We Pagans talk a lot about our interconnectedness with the Earth. But the fact is that, by virtue of living in a modern industrial society, we are largely alienated from the material conditions of our existence. One thing you can do to honor the Earth this Earth Day is to begin sourcing what you consume. Here's how ... Read more
Scholastic Paganism has posted the first review of Godless Paganism: Voices of Non-Theistic Pagans. If you're wondering whether you should purchase a copy, check out the review here. It's not unequivocally positive, but it is laudatory and insightful. Here are some excerpts: Read more
The point of identifying privilege is not to feel bad about it ... the point is to do something with it. Guilt does not redeem privilege. Paying it forward does. So this Earth Day, one thing you can do to honor the Earth is to find a way to use your privilege for the good. Read more
We are in the middle of the Sixth Great Extinction of animals and plants, the the highest rate of species die-offs since the extinction of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. Extinction is a natural phenomenon which occurs at a natural rate of about one to five species per year. Scientists estimate we’re now losing species at 1,000 to 10,000 times the the natural rate -- literally dozens of species are going extinct every day. Here's what you can do ... Read more
We need regulators and elective representatives who are financially independent of the industries they are supposed to be regulating. The Supreme Court's holdings in Citizens United (2010) and similar cases have this impossible by allowing corporations to legally buy elections. One thing you can do to honor the Earth this Earth Day is to help get corporate money out of politics. Here's how ... Read more
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