Michael Mann – Earthly Religion

Byron Says . . . (August, 2018)

August 27, 2018
Byron Carrier

Here's some of what I've posted online during August. (Climate Comments, The Raccoon Saga, Stop-if you-must) all the while also painting my house with three colors, all purchased inexpensively because they were returns. Here's my front door: Same day to Cleantechnica forum on EPA potential overrule of California standards, specifically a photo of a big pick-up belching out black smoke, saying “Fuck you, earth” and a second photo of a huge hurricane, saying, “Well, fuck you, too.” Laurence Jenner IMPOed • 6 days ago That whole Mad…

July 30, 2018
Byron Carrier

If interested, here's what I sent out on-line to various forums or other communications. 7-8-18 to Cleantech on Tesla Short Sellers, specifically deliberate slam piece by New York Times Wallace neroden • 2 days ago The New York Times hit piece on Tesla had its reporter claiming that he couldn't easily make the trip. Here's a partial list of what the reporter did in order to make a story about running out of juice... "As the State of Charge log shows, the Model S battery never ran out…

July 30, 2018
Byron Carrier

Every Tuesday morning I report at KSKQ radio about those policies and technologies that are helping rescue our environment (or that hurt it). I've decided to post them here (Sorry the formatting is lost; I can't lay it out in a more attractive way): KSKQ 7-3-18 Good Earthkeeping Tools and Trends May was the fourth warmest May on record since measurements started in 1880. Now, some 6,300 metrological stations take the measurements. https://climate.nasa.gov/news/2750/may-2018-was-fourth-warmest-may-on-record/ The ice is melting in Antarctica far faster than usual. Combined measurements…

July 30, 2018
Byron Carrier

Don't let the lovely sunset image fool you. Taken weeks ago, the smoky skies here have gotten worse. There are fires all over the west coast, burning the grasses, trees, cars, and houses in their way. I recently tried to escape to Mt. Shasta, but it was as bad there; it is impacted by fires up near Ashland and a huge one down at poor, hot Redding, California. There have always been fires. There have always been storms. There have often been heat-waves. What gets…

Join the Newsletter!

Please enter your email address below and click submit to join the Earthly Religion newsletter. The newsletter is a periodic collection of recent writings, podcasts and news. We do not share email addresses with anyone.

The dream of an Earthly Religion…

Earthly: our precious natural earth which allows us our bodies, lives, cultures and future.

Religion: from the old root words religare and religio, meaning “to bind back to the root and be whole again.” This does not assume we need to believe in God or the Bible. Rather, we should be well-related with our own bodies, each other, natural life, and natural existence as it actually is. If there is connection with divinity or God, it is in and through our bodies and beings that we relate primarily, not via scriptures, traditions, rituals, or supposed religious authorities. In short, by religion we mean “relating well with reality.”

The emphasis here is on the earthly. It is not an afterlife or an instead-of-life that interests us. Living well here on earth together does.

While we take our religious perspective and work seriously, we don’t want it to be stuffy. Too often, religions can be alien to the human condition rather than affirming of it. They can be demeaning and demoralizing, dull and bossy, ponderously pretentious. We lean more towards the fun and sexy, natural and lively, human and humane, thoughtful and pertinent.

Reality: the obvious and inescapable stuff of physical existence. We intend to enjoy and tend our lives in these bodies, for our time, in our cultures, for our singular and interrelated ecosystem. There may be more, but there is AT LEAST THIS of which we are born, in which we live, and into which we will die.

God or no-God is not the point; Earth is. Both believers and non-believers are welcome here, for we all share a common source, opportunity, and responsibility: life as it is and could be. This ranges from simply improving one’s own life to your helping save and restore Eden’s, not just to “sustain” it, but veering it to thrive as never before. If you value your life, each other’s, and Earth’s – welcome!

Learn more…

Byron Says . . . (August, 2018)

Byron says . . . (July 2018)

Good Earthkeeping Tools and Trends – July, 2018

Smoke Gets in Your Eyes, Lungs, and Future