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By Tom Durban, Re-posted from The Union, November 15, 2024: Part one How long are we, as a society, going to continue to make more and more people live outside because there is no available housing that meets increasingly impossible standards and high costs? To their credit, Nevada County is applying for millions of dollars
... continue readingImage by Laurie Bayen See the sign-on letter to world leaders below In 1992 I was part of the United Methodist delegation to Rio de Janeiro during the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, where George HW Bush signed the Framework Convention on Climate Change, the foundational climate treaty. At that conference, the nations
... continue readingSharon Delgado “Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for me, but weep for yourselves and for your children… For if they do this when the wood is green, what will happen when it is dry?” Luke 23:31 This morning the tears finally came. Friends, the wood is dry. People are getting sick and dying from the
... continue readingThis Lenten season is unlike any other I have lived through, with the threat of serious illness and death all around, businesses shuttered, people losing their jobs, the stock market crashing, social isolation, and responsibilities that people don’t know how they can meet. So many of us are staying home in order to “flatten
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