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Syria and international connections of young adults working for peace
It’s amazing to be connected to other young adults around the globe working for peace through the International Youth Committee (IYC) of Religions for Peace (http://bit.ly/1lBYvBO). Especially with...
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Father Coyne: Jesuit priest and scientist extraordinaire!
Yesterday I was honored and thrilled to meet Father Coyne, a Jesuit priest, Ph.D. in Astronomy specializing in astrophysics, and retired head of the Vatican’s research observatory located at the...
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Science to dispel fear
Fear is a powerful emotion. It can be used to control others, to gain power, to gain money, or to gain recognition as an “expert”. It can also motivate us to action, and even to do the right thing...
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Love
People featured in this post: bonus points if you know who they all are! What is love? Baby don’t hurt me Don’t hurt me No more – Haddaway, What is love (90’s song) What is love? In this post I’ll...
View ArticleDay after Memorial Day reflection
It’s hard to have a rational, compassionate discussion about violence on Memorial Day, the day after, or any day in a country in which we strongly believe that violence solves problems without...
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Fighting climate change interfaith style: divestment, reinvestment, and...
Rev. Fletcher Harper of GreenFaith in a webinar about fighting climate change, interfaith style! Check out this 30-minute webinar hosted by Religions for Peace on fighting climate change with Fletcher...
View ArticleHypocritical opposition to Iranian nuclear deal
Republican opposition to the Iranian nuclear deal is at best willfully ignorant and at worst is hypocritical, as they brand themselves champions of national security yet for political and ideological...
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The digital clock
By now, almost everyone is bound to be aware of the story of Ahmed Mohamed, the digital clock he built and brought to school, and the #IStandWithAhmed response. The cartoon obviously portrays this as...
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Counting the cost, climate change, and carbon fees (Part 1 of 2)
Record breaking global temperatures for 2015 as reported by NASA. Source: http://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-noaa-analyses-reveal-record-shattering-global-warm-temperatures-in-2015 In this 2-part...
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Counting the cost, climate change, and carbon fees (Part 2 of 2)
Source: http://grist.org/article/2010-09-27-a-price-on-carbon-is-a-must-says-delaware-senator/ (also a good article!) Today humanity faces the threat of global climate change based on our use of fossil...
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The devil at work in the climate change “debate”?
A wolf in sheep’s clothing: another metaphor or image of Satan, the father of lies A couple of weeks ago, my city’s newspaper, the Post-Standard, published an article framing climate change as a...
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Religion as Pearls and Ashes
Finding the truly transformative aspects of religion isn’t this hard, but it does take a significant effort! We humans have a remarkable ability to compartmentalize parts of our lives: to...
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Hedge funds and big barns
Just because I’m a superman nerd, why not use a picture of the Kent family barn from the TV show Smallville?? This is a quick summary and reflection on an excellent NPR piece about hedge funds and...
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My comments at a recent Town Hall Meeting in Syracuse, NY
Photo taken by Mark Rupert. Copied from WAER article linked to below. A group called the Central New York (CNY) Solidarity Coalition arranged a town hall meeting on March 18 to let residents of our...
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Controversy over existing nuclear power in Central New York
This is an in-depth post about contested subsidies for nuclear power plants in Central New York. A few prominent anti-nuclear groups are strongly working against these subsidies. At the moment, their...
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Healthcare Solutions from my friend, Dr. Sunny Aslam MD
My friend Dr. Sunny Aslam, MD is a psychiatrist who works primarily with low income patients and whose state-run hospital also serves the homeless. He knows first-hand the weaknesses of our health...
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Tritium leaks at nuclear power plants
I’ve got family from Greensboro, NC visiting and we got talking about energy. They were telling me that there’s a controversy in NC over Duke Energy (a utility company) trying to charge ratepayers for...
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Mythbust: Dietary Changes to Save the World
From: https://insideclimatenews.org/news/16062017/china-beef-consumption-exports-higher-greenhouse-gas-emissions-climate-change Every now and then, a fresh new research article comes out saying that if...
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Updates on my life (Part 1)
A large wastewater treatment plant serving 2.3 million people in Florida Hi everyone! It’s a familiar chorus on my website to remark on how I haven’t written in a while. Oh well, c’est la vie! I...
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Updates on life (including book!) – Part 2
A big part of my motivation for writing is that I really do believe the pen is mightier than the sword. It’s so hard to have deep conversations about complex, difficult, and sensitive topics so I’m...
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