Take the next exit: Avoid an economic traffic jam

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When it comes to economic growth, the express lanes are closed.

You've probably heard friends complain about tie-ups in Los Angeles or Chicago or New York that transform already long commutes into sweaty practice runs for purgatory. But nothing compares to what motorists recently endured on a roadway heading into Beijing in August's mother-of-all traffic jams: an 11-day, diesel-clouded snarl, stretching more than 62 miles and entrapping thousands of trucks and motorists trying in vain to snail into China's capital city.

Kevin Clarke is a writer living in New York.

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Problem children: Making trouble for Mother Earth

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Mother Earth can’t take much more of her human offspring’s hell-raising.

Scientists tell us that, by their count, the universe is somewhere between 13 and 14 billion years old, with the earth coming in at somewhere between 5 and 6 billion. According to traditional Jewish reckoning, on the other hand, creation is celebrating a much more modest 5,771 years this September 9.

Bryan Cones is a writer living in Boston. See more posts by Bryan Cones

Problem children: Making trouble for Mother Earth

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Mother Earth can’t take much more of her human offspring’s hell-raising.

Scientists tell us that, by their count, the universe is somewhere between 13 and 14 billion years old, with the earth coming in at somewhere between 5 and 6 billion. According to traditional Jewish reckoning, on the other hand, creation is celebrating a much more modest 5,771 years this September 9.

Bryan Cones is a writer living in Boston. See more posts by Bryan Cones

Our Lady of Waste Management: Resources for going green

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Looking to apply your faith to care for creation? Here are some resources for doing so:

From the church:

Kristen Hannum is a freelance journalist based in Denver, Colorado.

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Our Lady of Waste Management: Resources for going green

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Looking to apply your faith to care for creation? Here are some resources for doing so:

From the church:

Kristen Hannum is a freelance journalist based in Denver, Colorado.

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The sin of mountaintop removal

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"You can't put a mountain back. Do you think you can do a better job than God?"

-- from Leveling Appalachia, a video from Yale's environmental service, e360.

Five hundred mountains in Appalachia are gone forever.

Glenmary Father John Rausch has little patience with those who excuse this kind of environmental destruction in favor of short-term jobs. "It's a false dichotomy," he says. "The coal industry is actually in business to put miners out of a job."

Kristen Hannum is a freelance journalist based in Denver, Colorado.

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The sin of mountaintop removal

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"You can't put a mountain back. Do you think you can do a better job than God?"

-- from Leveling Appalachia, a video from Yale's environmental service, e360.

Five hundred mountains in Appalachia are gone forever.

Glenmary Father John Rausch has little patience with those who excuse this kind of environmental destruction in favor of short-term jobs. "It's a false dichotomy," he says. "The coal industry is actually in business to put miners out of a job."

Kristen Hannum is a freelance journalist based in Denver, Colorado.

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Clothesline rebels

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Alexander Lee and other Project Laundry List members don't believe that an energy guzzler like a clothes dryer plays any role in being a good neighbor. They're fighting for the right for all Americans to dry laundry outdoors--including those living in home-owners associations and under other covenants that forbid it. "It's about not trusting your neighbor to do the right thing," says Lee, a parishioner at Sacred Heart in Concord, New Hampshire.

Kristen Hannum is a freelance journalist based in Denver, Colorado.

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Clothesline rebels

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Alexander Lee and other Project Laundry List members don't believe that an energy guzzler like a clothes dryer plays any role in being a good neighbor. They're fighting for the right for all Americans to dry laundry outdoors--including those living in home-owners associations and under other covenants that forbid it. "It's about not trusting your neighbor to do the right thing," says Lee, a parishioner at Sacred Heart in Concord, New Hampshire.

Kristen Hannum is a freelance journalist based in Denver, Colorado.

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Working for the common grid

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Reducing our collective carbon footprint can be as easy as plugging in.

In the old days all the cool guys and gals who wanted to show up “the man” devoted a lot of their creative geekiness to figuring out ways to get “off the grid,” devising Rube Goldberg-ish mechanicals and homemade micro-tech geared to living outside the nation’s energy infrastructure. It was laudable self-reliance—sometimes run amok—but it belongs to another age.

Kevin Clarke is a writer living in New York.

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