Tag Archives: climate change

It is said that time seems to move faster as we get older. In some ways, I think that has been true for me. I wake up on a Jan. 1 and the next thing I know we are celebrating New Year’s Eve. But 2022 has not moved so quickly. It has seemed interminable.

Politics extends far beyond “local.” Social, economic and, more recently, environmental examples abound. Most comprehensive is the Earth we share. Only in recent decades have we been aware of that blue marble — Earth photographed from space — our commons, tragically being plundered.

Spokane residents Robert and Anita Dygert-Gearheart have compiled information on climate and human-caused climate change into a curriculum “Wake Up World” they hope people in faith-based and non-faith-based groups will utilized to become more informed on climate challenges facing the planet.

Gonzaga’s Center for Climate, Society, and the Environment will host the fourth annual Spokane Candidates Climate Change Forum in October, where candidates for local office will share with voters what they would or would not support if elected to office regarding climate change.

Presented on Zoom by the Jodo Shinshu (Buddhist) International Office: What can we do for our future? Please join this interfaith event on Oct. 30 on Zoom. We will work on the topic “Affordable and Clean Energy” through the lenses of both faith and science. Please register at: http://bit.ly/3rcqm49 Tracy …

Our attempts to understand biodiversity in the world’s ecosystems provide insights into humanity’s interconnectedness – within both nature and our social structures.