Comments on: Going Green?

By: Randy

Randy — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 11:06:21 +0000

Thanks, Paul, for the encouragement! If you have any more thoughts let me know.

BTW, this site is about to undergo a major improvement in look and navigation. Found two great freelancers who are great to work with. Look again in maybe two weeks.

By: Laban Paul

Laban Paul — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 06:49:12 +0000

Dude, GREAT blog. This whole site that you have set up is top-notch. Well done. I’m really looking forward to reading all of your archives. Terrific job, keep it up! Laban Paul

By: Randy Strothman

Randy Strothman — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 22:34:54 +0000

Thanks Curmudgeon Boy. BTW, for anyone who has been paying attention, CB is living in NYC and is an old friend who introduced me to the world of filmmaking years ago. As Pittsburghers sometimes say, he was “jagging my wires.” But in an interesting way.

In an offblog email he even shared with me a fascinating concept for a documentary about the mountain topping issue. Thanks CB for stirring things up. And congratulations on your recent screenplay award!

By: Curmudgeon Boy

Curmudgeon Boy — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 20:58:10 +0000

Christians for the Mountains

By: diana nelson jones

diana nelson jones — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 20:46:14 +0000

hi randy, and thanks curmudgeon boy for being out there in defence of the mountains… i have heard of the evangelical movement TOWARD environmentalism. it isn’t a new idea but seems to be catching on among people who believe that god created the world and that all the life in it is his idea and that destruction is a direct insult to and assault on god. allelujia! i say. whatever it takes to get people to be refined stewards of this earth, so be it. diana

By: Randy Strothman

Randy Strothman — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 17:02:29 +0000

Are you by any chance from the Pittsburgh area… and know Diana Nelson Jones from the Post-Gazette? She’s originally from West Virginia and very concerned too about the mountaintop removal process.

Interesting about the “creation care” evangelicals. I hadn’t heard this terminology before.

BTW, do you by any chance know any congregations in the Pittsburgh area that are into this kind of stewardship effort? I wanted to connect a client with them.

By: Curmudgeon Boy

Curmudgeon Boy — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 16:39:07 +0000

Last year I went down to West Virginia to work on a story on Mountaintop removal coal mining. Some key opponents to this heinous practice I met are “creation care” evangelicals, many who have been completely turned off by the co-opting of their religion by the Falwells, Robertsons and Dobsons of the world.

By: Randy Strothman

Randy Strothman — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 16:12:25 +0000

it looks like this topic has stirred up some strong partisan sentiments.

Curiously, last night I was listening to a Public Radio International program on a Pittsburgh NPR station. The topic was about a growing “environmental ministry” in houses of worship, including what are referred to as the Christian Right. It described relatively new faith-based greening efforts and “green congregations.”

The keyword here seems to be “stewardship” of the planet. Something called “Interfaith Power and Light” sounded interesting, perhaps as a growing national model.

By: Curmudgeon Boy

Curmudgeon Boy — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 15:24:59 +0000

Admit it Randy, anything that doesn’t involve massive consumption of petrochemicals and abject obeisance to the internal combustion engine is a commie plot.

(I have Kool Aid swilling Republican relatives too. They warned me against buying that hybrid.)

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 17:35:33 +0000

Re Wall-E: There is political correctness of the conservative kind, too, and like liberal PC it reflects underlying differences of culture and mindset. On the right, for instance, certain movies are not to be watched or shown to one’s children. Such as Bambi, or any movie in which the heroes are animals and the villains are humans. Other r-w PC sins I’ve committed, which various conservative friends have pointed out: driving a Volvo. Riding subsidized public transport. Watching NBA but not PGA. And carrying a library card: reading books for free at the taxpayers’ expense. Some of it is just amusing differences. But when it gets into things involving public policy — like climate change, hoax or real? — then it’s serious.