Published | Handbook on Religion and the Environment
The Handbook on Religion and the Environment (Edward Elgar, 2026) was recently released, and included an article I wrote called: "Faith communities as participants in climate resilience hubs: a case study from Oregon." While I have not yet…
”If this warming rate remains constant, the Paris Agreement 1.5C threshold would be breached between 2026 and 2029, the authors find.”
#ClimateHeating
Everyone is interested in data centers these days, so I recommend going back and listening to this long, in-depth podcast about the history of data centers. You will feel much more grounded and informed about current debates.
04.03.2026 20:03 — 👍 86 🔁 31 💬 2 📌 1
We celebrate two pro-Palestine victories at the American Psychological Association @@apajournals.bsky.social and American Association of Geographers @geographers.bsky.social!
05.03.2026 14:42 — 👍 88 🔁 17 💬 2 📌 0
China is testing a train that will go 280mph, making it the fastest conventional train in the world.
The US can't get its shit together to build a single new line.
USAID’s Emergency Food Security Program spent $4 billion in FY2022 to feed 114 million people in 55 countries. We just blew that much money in four days of this war.
05.03.2026 01:57 — 👍 55 🔁 22 💬 3 📌 1
Oregon Senate Passes Bipartisan Measure Investing in the State’s Natural Environment and Wildlife House Bill 4134 relies on taxes paid by visitors in hotels, motels, and other vacation stays SALEM, OR – The same gorgeous landscapes that draw tourists to our state will get new investments funded by those visitors under legislation passed today in the Oregon Senate. A tax on hotels, motels, and vacation stays will help pay for wildfire resilience, invasive-species eradication, wildlife conservation, and prevention of poaching. The broadly supported, bipartisan measure helps reverse decades of underfunding for protection of fish and wildlife.
INBOX: The Oregon Senate passed the 1.25 Percent for Wildlife bill, which will raise the state’s lodging tax by 1.25 percent to fund wildlife conservation programs, mostly through the Dept of Fish and Wildlife. This has been a long time in the making.
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Wednesday's Most Read # 1 - Adding Up What Urban Highways Really Cost link.theoverheadwire.com/t84nu @benschneider.bsky.social @thedotcity.bsky.social
04.03.2026 23:44 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Hello? Anybody home?
Climate "hushing" and avoidance has allowed Trump and the fossil industry to destroy decades of effort.
Where is the climate movement? Where are the Democratic politicians?
Vast majorities are concerned about climate change.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
This week in Talking Climate: why a warming world can mean worse winter weather, and how one of the world's biggest cities just cleaned up its air 184 years ahead of forecast. Read on!
04.03.2026 20:36 — 👍 95 🔁 42 💬 2 📌 0
Over 40% of global shipping by volume exists to move fossil fuels from one place to another.
A huge share of the world's maritime infrastructure has been built around a system that is going to change dramatically as renewable energy and electrification displace fossil fuels.
'Based on estimates I’ve seen, a single data center campus would have an annual carbon footprint equivalent to the emissions of about 80,000 passenger vehicles in a year.'
so... that means capturing waste heat from data centers is not circularity.
www.planetizen.com/blogs/137025...
Three-panel meme showing a woman speaking and a man listening from behind a wall. In the first panel, she says “Masks don’t work,” and the man replies “Be honest.” In the second, she says “I don’t want to wear one,” and he again says “Be honest.” In the final panel, she says “I just don’t wanna be reminded of the scary pandemic,” and the man responds, “Thank you.”
This is what it really comes down to.
Masks are a reminder the pandemic isn’t over.
🔹COVID is airborne
🔹Each infection carries cumulative risk
🔹Long COVID has no cure
🔹The pandemic isn’t over
🔹Wearing a mask is still one of the best ways to protect yourself and others
Stay informed. Stay safe.
More than 70% of American adults are very or somewhat concerned about exposure to toxic chemicals in their food and drinking water. 5 out of 6 adults in the United States say they wanted the federal government and industry to do more to protect them.
www.cnn.com/2026/02/26/h...
As a person who eats food, this is great news.
Here in the Portland area data center bros are trying to pave over some of the most fertile land in the world. We food-eaters must stop them.
New meta-analysis of 26 published studies concludes that AVs will lead people to use cars a lot more — which would thicken congestion and worsen pollution (even if AVs are electric).
"AV deployment is anticipated to lead to an overall increase in Vehicle Miles Traveled."
doi.org/10.1016/j.tb...
On Top of ‘Off‑the‑Charts’ Warming: Why the Next El Niño Is Really Bad News– Intview with Dr Jennifer Francis, Snr Scientist At Woodwell Climate Research Centre (US).
https://youtu.be/VSw_kV6dq9g #elnino #climatechange @nickbreeze.genn.cc @jfrancisclimate.bsky.social @woodwellclimate.bsky.social
A photo of a warehouse that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement plans to convert into a detention center for immigrants in Roxbury, N.J., on Feb. 16, 2026, overlaid with the headline, "Can Trump’s Plan for Warehouse Immigrant Detention Camps Be Stopped?" and the DEK, "ICE has the money it needs to turn warehouses into prisons for immigrants. But local pressure is stopping projects in their tracks."
A number of warehouse owners, facing local backlash and pressure, have already backed out of lucrative sales to ICE. interc.pt/4b3UUMX
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The presumed upcoming El Nino will help cement and quantify global warming acceleration, showing that 2C global warming is likely to be reached in the 2030s, not at midcentury.
See Another El Nino Already? mailchi.mp/caa/another-... Also available on Substack: jimehansen.substack.com/p/another-el...
🚨🔥 NEW: Increasing mortality from wildfire smoke is directly traceable to greenhouse gas emissions. In our new paper in @pnas.org , we show that every megaton of CO2 emitted costs the US more than 10 million dollars in health costs from wildfire smoke. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
19.02.2026 18:46 — 👍 95 🔁 55 💬 4 📌 5
According to the medical journal @thelancet.com, heat extremes caused an estimated 546k deaths every year between 2012 & 2021 – a 63% rise on rates seen in the 1990s
“That's the equivalent of a fully loaded jumbo jet full of people going down once every 7hrs throughout the year” says Prof Ollie Jay
Teal background. “4 Key Black-Led Climate Justice Site Fights You Should Know This Black History Month”. “The climate justice movement is firmly rooted in Black history. This Black History Month, we're spotlighting four key climate justice fights led by Black environmentalists and communities - from past to present.” Arrow icon in top right corner.
Teal background. “1. In the late 1970s, in Chicago, Hazel Johnson started her legacy of activism, where she exposed the devastating health impacts of toxic air and water pollution on her community. A decade after Johnson's husband passed in 1969 from lung cancer, she noticed that her seven children suffered skin and respiratory issues. Then, she saw a report that her neighborhood of Altgeld Gardens had the highest cancer rate in the city. Johnson immediately launched her own investigation to find out why. What she discovered shocked her.”
Teal background. “Altgeld Gardens was built on a former industrial waste dump for the Pullman Motor Company from 1863 until the 20th century. Landfills, industrial factories, and sewage-treatment plants also exposed the community to hazardous fumes and contaminated their water. In 1982, Johnson founded the People for Community Recovery to push city and state officials to take action. Her work eventually led to President Bill Clinton's executive order that directed federal agencies to address environmental racism.” [Photo of Johnson shaking hands with Vice President Al Gore in the White House, with photo credit at top of image reading “Photo: People for Community Recovery Archives, Vivian G. Harsh Research Collection of Afro-American History and Literature”. “Johnson is affectionately known as "the Mother of the Environmental Justice Movement." Arrow icon in bottom right corner.
Teal background. “2. In 1982, the predominantly Black community of Warren County, North Carolina organized against the construction of a landfill for toxic waste. For weeks, the community organized protests and rallies, and engaged in acts of civil disobedience, like blocking trucks from delivering toxic waste.” Photo of historic sign reading “E 121 PCB PROTESTS Toxic waste illegally dumped along N.C. roads was moved to landfill 2 mi. E., 1982. Protest sparked environmental justice movement in U.S..” with photo credit in top right corner reading “Photo: Indy Beetle/Wikimedia Commons”. “Protesters faced arrest and police brutality, but their organizing efforts drew national attention to the persistent issue of environmental racism.” Arrow icon in bottom right corner.
The climate justice movement is firmly rooted in Black history.
This #BlackHistoryMonth, we’re spotlighting four key climate justice fights led by Black environmentalists and communities – from past to present.
Swipe to learn more! #GreenSky
Texas oil drillers see salvation in data centers. Wow. First, why does the TX oil industry need to be saved?
And how would data centers save them?
It's about water.
Can you now see why the fossil fuel industry and the media are selling fossil fuel data centers?
They need each other.
What do tipping points mean for climate policy?
Climate change won't be smooth.
Delay reaching emission targets by a few years, and you might not just get slightly worse climate impacts.
You may unwittingly cross a line for unstoppable, massive changes.
global-tipping-points.org
It was working, so we don't want to do it anymore?
keck.usc.edu/news/adoptio...
Today in no shit.
17.02.2026 14:57 — 👍 47 🔁 12 💬 2 📌 0
100 years of January sea surface temperature anomalies. Note the long-term warming and patterns of climate variability (e.g., El Niño/La Niña).
Data from NOAA ERSSTv5 at psl.noaa.gov/data/gridded...
Graphic showing changes in CO₂, global temperatures and global sea levels over the last 2025 years. Steep increases are visible after the industrial revolution.
Updated climate indicators graphics, now including 2025
ed-hawkins.github.io/climate-visu...
The future is not settled. Things can be better. We could have it all. Anything is possible.
Choose a cause within your reach. Find your people. Get involved. Mask up.
The antidote to despair is action ✨
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