on the cover

Carcasses and Approaching Storm
by Bruce Barnbaum

Volume 84
Number 4
APRIL 2001

 

in this issue:
"The Politics and Spirituality of Weather"

Global warming and the politics of denial
by Camille Colatosti
The U.N. climate-change conference held at The Hague last November failed to yield any progress on stemming the accelerating rate of global warming. What will it take to move beyond the politics of [U.S.] denial?
sidebar: Murray Carpenter reviews the scientific basics of climate change.
Also available in Spanish.

Global greening? The time for a 'Global Green Deal' has come
by Mark Hertsgaard
Fatalism, says environmental activist Hertsgaard, won't keep global warming at bay. What we need, he argues, is a Global Green Deal: a program to environmentally renovate our civilization from top to bottom, in rich and poor countries alike.

Erosional spirituality -- an interview with Terry Tempest Williams
by Julie A. Wortman
Naturalist-writer Terry Tempest Williams lives in Utah's Castle Valley, where the changes in the weather inform her days. She lives in an erosional landscape -- and believes that "a spiritual life is also part of an erosional life."
sidebar: Feminist theologian Catherine Keller writes on "The greening of Apocalypse."

Episcopal power and light
-- two environmental activists help the church come clean
by Marianne Arbogast
The Episcopal Church's 2000 General Convention was the first major convention in U.S. history to power itself with renewable electrical energy. A month later, the Democratic National Convention followed suit. Two Episcopal Church activists with a mission are the reason.

A "Natural" Disaster?
by Daniel R. Farber

Letters

Editor's Note

Poetry

Short Takes