I’m back. The flood waters have receded. Somewhat. I passed my comps and am looking forward to the half marathon this Sunday.
I plan to give a mile-by-mile report once I’m back in Chicago, primarily per my friend’s request. If it goes anything like my usual long runs, each mile or two will bring thoughts of a different food I’d like to be eating. Nice, huh? While exercising, I imagine eating. Unfortunately, the reverse, that I imagine exercising while eating, is not also true.
But all of that is for later. Today, as you may have noticed by viewing the wee widget in the side bar, is Blog Action Day, and last week I committed to expressing my concern for one of the biggest crises we face in the 21st century: climate change. I have decided to do this by publishing links to sites that can express more clearly and eloquently what climate change is, why it’s a problem and how individuals and communities can affect real change for the better. I’ve chosen to provide links to organizations responding to climate change that are religious in nature as a reminder that as a world in which religion is so important to so many people, as well as diverse, that this is a cause for anyone who has even the remotest sense of the earth as being a gift. I’ve included sites specific to the three “Abrahamic faiths,” not to intentionally exclude the many faiths that have something to say about climate change.
The Catholic Coalition on Climate Change
Islamic Foundation for Ecology and Environmental Sciences
Alliance of Religions and Conservation