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Questions Evangelicals Ask About the Environment

Fellow evangelicals often pose loaded questions that typically attempt to make a point rather than seek an answer. It's time for that practice to stop and for the church to seek genuine answers to the many significant environmental problems and questions that we ignore at our peril.

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To save species conservationists must focus on conserving at least 5,000 individuals

The tiger has an estimated population of 3,400-5,000 individuals; the giant panda, 1,000-2,000; the Sumatran rhino, 250; the North Atlantic right whale, 200-250; and the California condor, 170.

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Can Condoms Save Us from Climate Change?

The greenest technology available to us may not be solar panels, but instead contraception, according to a new report.

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Global warming skeptic at religious right conference apologizes for slanderous charges

At a DC conference on Saturday a prominent global warming science skeptic backed away from over-the-top accusations aimed at Christian environmentalists. His talk was advertised to imply that coerced abortion will be part of a global warming "final solution."

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Why our throwaway economy is on a collision course with the earth's geological limits

The stresses in our early twenty-first century civilization take many forms--social, economic, environmental, and political. One distinctly unhealthy and visible illustration of all four is the swelling flow of garbage associated with a throwaway economy.

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Asian Water Supplies Require Substantial Overhaul

Asian countries urgently need to boost farmland productivity and use water more efficiently or the continent may not have enough water to support the agricultural needs of its growing populations, an Asian Development Bank-supported study found.

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Composting: Turning Gloom and Doom into Productive Opportunities

So, being the good granola boy that I am, I was sniffing around the Off-Grid.net for the latest and greatest in grid free goodness (yeah okay, so you can have a fetish for solar panels, kill me). And being a big fan of Wretha, I read her recent post on gloom and doom. Snip snip…

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Guerilla Gardening Sweeps, Sows, and Tills the World

Flowers, greens and gardens have often been noted to not only promote well-being and health (think flower remedies, cleaner air and the therapeutic effects noted by avid gardeners), but also to thwart crime and mayhem in communities which partake in community garden projects.

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Organic Farms and GMO Seeds: The Keys to Feeding 9 Billion People?

The report, done by Deutsche Bank’s climate-change research team, looks at predicted soaring global populations (9 billion by 2050) and asks how the hell everyone’s going to get fed.

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Borneo ablaze: forest fires threaten world's largest remaining population of orangutans

Raging fires have broken out in the peat-swamp forests of Central Kalimantan, Indonesian Borneo, threatening the largest population of orangutans in the world.