Tag Archives: pollution

Earth Day Is Us Day!

Posted on April 23, 2025 by mitchteemley

I’m a day late with this. But then every day should be Earth Day. I’m not a flaming liberal. I’m more of a smoldering moderate (and smoke-free at that). But when it comes to protecting my home planet, I tend … Continue reading →

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Happy Earth Day, Earth!

Posted on April 22, 2024 by mitchteemley

Thought for the Week Year This year for Earth Day, instead of giving our planet a Present Let’s give it a Future ⊕

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Earth Love

Posted on April 22, 2022 by mitchteemley

A lot of Earth Day articles focus on guilt. We certainly do have plenty to be ashamed of when it comes to how we’ve treated our planet and its inhabitants, human and otherwise. But I believe love is a better … Continue reading →

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Our Beautiful, Broken World

Posted on April 23, 2021 by mitchteemley

Yesterday, leaders of the world’s most environmentally destructive nations met virtually, despite some very chilly relations, and pledged to increase efforts to heal our world. Is the handwriting finally, undeniably on the wall? Let’s hope and pray it is. Because, … Continue reading →

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Redeeming Our World

Posted on August 8, 2020 by mitchteemley

“Then the LORD God took the man and placed him in the garden of Eden to cultivate and watch over it.” ~Genesis 2:15 As we return, post-lockdown, to the world around us, so does the pollution we create. If it … Continue reading →

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Earth Day Lockdown

Posted on April 21, 2020 by mitchteemley

This may be the least celebrated Earth Day ever.* And yet, ironically, our very inattentiveness is giving Earth a long-needed breather: worldwide pollution has plummeted during the lockdown. Why is it our planet needed a global pandemic to catch a … Continue reading →

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How to be Free

Posted on September 28, 2018 by mitchteemley

Francis of Assisi got his first taste of freedom in a prison cell. True freedom lives, if we allow it to, inside of us. As a kid growing up in smog-strangled Los Angeles I heard a radio ditty about a … Continue reading →

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How to be Free

Posted on September 12, 2016 by mitchteemley

Francis of Assisi got his first taste of freedom in a prison cell. True freedom lives, if we allow it to, inside of us. As a kid growing up in smog-strangled Los Angeles I heard a radio ditty about a … Continue reading →

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