Tend the Garden

Do you not see that God has subjected to your use all things in the heavens and on earth, and has made His bounties flow to you in exceeding measure, both seen and unseen? Qur’an 31.20 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that...

Our Disregard for the Natural World Is Not Compatible with a Just Society

When Baby Jessica was trapped in that deep, dank hole in Midland, Texas the entire nation was riveted. For fifty-eight hours the nation held its breath and when she was finally lifted to safety, held gingerly in the arms of her rescuer, the entire nation was moved to tears. What compels a nation to rally around a child who has fallen down a well, yet draws a collective yawn when entire regions of our nation are...

The Battle for Creation

The Sixth Great Extinction “We are talking about saving the Creation. Once you lose species, they will not return. It is ethically impermissible to let this happen on our watch.” - E. O. Wilson, renowned Harvard biologist The world’s people face several immense challenges in the twenty-first century. Among these are global unrest that manifests itself in political and religious...

Developer Land Grab

A Summary of How a Small Non-Profit Was Targeted for Destruction by the City of Rancho Cucamonga, the County of San Bernardino, and a Consortium of Developers A Brief History – How a Small Land Trust Obtained a 309-Acre Nature Sanctuary • In the nineties, the County of San Bernardino approves a large (originally conceived to be 1100 acres) project development on the Etiwanda Fan known as...

A Long and Hard Road Ahead

Time To Reset Our Thinking The Federal Reserve recently revised its economic forecast predicting that recovery will come in 2010 rather than later this year. Not surprising, since our titanic economy simply is not that nimble. Regardless of how aggressively a stimulus is applied, economies don’t turn on a dime. Case in point: In August 1981, the Economic Recovery Tax Act was passed to...