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Why I’m risking arrest to stop the tar sands pipeline
Below is a moving email from Peter Burkholder, a Mennonite from Maryland, who was one of hundreds arrested recently in a series of protests against the Keystone XL pipeline: From: Peter Burkholder...
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Action Alert: Oct 28 Mountaintop Removal Webinar
The National Council of Churches will be holding a conference call/webinar on why the faith community cares about mountaintop removal coal mining, how God’s land and people are suffering, and what you...
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Action Alert: Urge President Obama to seek climate justice
Do iT in Durban Sign an online petition President Obama to do all that he can to seek climate justice for all of God’s children and God’s Creation during the United Nations Climate Change Conference in...
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Creation Under Attack
Emily Wilson-Hauger reflects on the importance of advocating for environmental justice in the Third Way Cafe. I recently helped draft a petition letter to President Obama and Congress urging them to...
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Lakota Tribes “Refuse to Cooperate” With Tar Sands Proponents
From Jason Cappola of Truthout, 11/2/2011: The Keystone XL pipeline and a message from indigenous resistance. As people gather to protest the greed and corruption of Wall Street in downtown Manhattan...
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COP17 Durban Agreement Falls Short
In early December, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change met for the 17th time in Durban, South Africa to discuss the international community’s response to climate change. Though...
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Action Alert: Thank the EPA for objecting to 19 mountaintop removal permits
Mountaintop removal coal mining destroys the natural environment and ecosystem, contaminates drinking water, threatens longstanding Appalachian culture, and has contributed to higher unemployment in...
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Action Alert: Urge the EPA to Ban Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining
Over the past 20 years, mountaintop removal mining has left thousands of communities in extreme poverty, destroyed 14 million acres of forest and 2,000 miles of headwater streams, and increased levels...
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Poverty in Appalachia
Duane Beachey of MCC Great Lakes SWAP program, writes about poverty in Appalachia and the complex relationship between economic development and resource extraction interests. What struck me most living...
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Bad border bill puts environment at risk
What if within 100 miles of all U.S. borders, decades’ worth of public health, tribal, and environmental laws were disregarded? Today on Capitol Hill, this question brought together a diverse coalition...
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Personal reflection on the People’s Climate March: Anne Sensenig
“I am not a march ‘junkie’ – more of a homebody. But when the issues become urgent enough on moral, spiritual and civic grounds, I feel compelled to take to the streets to vote with my body.” By Anne...
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Personal reflection on the People’s Climate March: Adam Miller
“I decided to take my 3-year-old daughter along because I had the sense that this could be a formative experience for her and a chance to instill the values of justice, equality, and concern for the...
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E-Memo: October 6, 2014
Marching for action on climate change Several dozen Mennonites joined the estimated 400,000 people who walked in the People’s Climate March in New York City on September 21, 2014. Two days later, world...
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In the Grip of Denial
The U.S. Senate has finally acknowledged that climate change is real. On January 21, as part of the debate on the Keystone XL pipeline, the Senate passed an amendment by a vote of 98 to 1 stating, “It...
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Waiting for rain
As in many vulnerable communities worldwide, farmers nervously await the rainy season each year in Binga District in Matabeleland North Province, Zimbabwe. When rains are sparse farmers are forced to...
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Restoring beauty through reconciliation and unity
By Matt Hershey On June 18 Pope Francis issued an important document on the church’s call to care for creation. The 184-page encyclical was titled, Laudato si’, which means “Praise be to you.” The...
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High school essay contest announced
Announcing our annual high school essay contest! The annual MCC U.S. Washington Office essay contest highlights the perspectives of youth on significant public policy issues and promotes the...
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Dismantling the Doctrine of Discovery
Recently a group of Anabaptists have put together a phenomenal resource about the Doctrine of Discovery and its legacy with Anabaptists: http://dofdmenno.org/ The term “Doctrine of Discovery” refers to...
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Paris climate talks could be a turning point
By Tammy Alexander During the next two weeks, we could see an important turning point in global efforts to address the causes and effects of climate change. From November 30 through December 11,...
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High school essay contest winners announced
WASHINGTON – Olivia Dalke, a junior at Dallas High School in Dallas, Oregon, and a member of Salem Mennonite Church, has earned the grand prize of $1,000 for her essay on climate change in the...
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