Onward Christian Values
It’s the 502nd anniversary of the act of defiance for which Martin Luther is known today: nailing a copy of his 95 Theses to the door of the Wittenberg Castle church, marking the beginnings of the Protestant Reformation and its separation from the Catholic Church.
Until very recently, Catholicism hadn’t changed too greatly over its 1600-year history. In fact, it wasn’t until the advent of Pope Francis that we saw a real shift, which, fortunately for all, was in the direction of humanism. (more…)
Each year, about 15 million acres of forest is turned into wood products, a total of more than 300 million since the 1990s. That’s about twice the area of Texas.
When I was told that the writing services I was performing for my client 
There is a reason that “reduce” comes first here, i.e., if you don’t use something in the first place, you don’t have to worry about what happens to it downstream.
From former Labor Secretary Robert Reich:
Most of us probably have a lower assessment of humankind now than we did a few years ago.
I’m fairly certain that the meme on the left here was not written as a joke, but I sure got a chuckle out of it.
As reported by 
Here’s a fabulous video in which the presenter offers a crash course on the particle physics associated with nuclear energy. Once this is under our belts, we’re in a position to understand the value of thorium, and essential design of the 
The word on the street for the past couple of years has been that Saudi Arabia is continuing to sell oil on the world market, but moving to renewable energy, largely solar, for its own use domestically. But when they cancelled the largest renewables project ever announced, $200 billion worth of solar panels stretching across hundreds of square kilometres of the Saudi Arabian desert, people started wondering how sincere all this really is. 
