The United States and the G8 rich nations refuse to commit to carbon targets to halt a global temperature rise of 2 degrees Celsius. If the temperature rises 2 degrees the Greenland ice cap would melt, the ocean would rise several feet, and the Maldives nation in the Indian Ocean, consisting of islands barely above sea level, would be flooded out of existence.

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Last Friday, a lucky 13^th, I attended my 61^st high school reunion. For that gathering I produced a book, 49ers Roar: Stories of Leo High School Classmates, with a lion on the cover. For several weeks up to that meeting I lived in both 1949 and 2010, and in both Indiana and Illinois.

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An eco-spirituality writer who grew up on Second Coming theology, Brenda Peterson, has just published a book sparkling with humor about life and family in an autobiography, I Want to be Left Behind: Finding Rapture Here on Earth.

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Jesus said, “Blessed are the peacemakers.” If he were walking among us today, he would say, “Blessed are the bonobo peacemakers,” as I discuss in chapter 5 of my book, Green Kingdom Come!

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I was born in Ohio in 1931, where the most spectacular extinction episode imaginable had come to a horrid end only 17 years earlier in the Cincinnati Zoo. In 1800 there were 5 billion passenger pigeons in the United States, and in 1914 there were zero. Many pigeons died in planned slaughters.

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I am walking with my eyes and mind this week among our best friends on Earth via a spectacular surrogate, the book by Tony Rodd and Jennifer Stackhouse, Trees: A Visual Guide.  University of California Press: 2008.

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This past week my grandson, Drew, showed me his FiveFingers shoes and  gave me his book on the Tarahumara (Raramuri) people of the Sierra Madre in Mexico, Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe,  Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen, by Christopher McDougall.

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