Yearly Archives: 2023

CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS, #109, January 9, 2022

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https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2023/01/omniclimate-memo-mondays-109-january-9.html UNFCCC FailureFilm of Pope Francis’s Laudato Si’Martin Rees, If Science Is to Save Us UNFCCC 30TH AnniversaryThe Editors .  Monthly Review (January 2023).  (Volume 74, Number 8).   buy this issue.   This month’s “Notes from the Editors” marks the 30-year anniversary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. The abject failure of this framework to enact meaningful progress on the planetary crisis continued to be on full display in 2022, including at November’s COP27 in Egypt. | more… THE LETTER: A MESSAGE FOR OUR EARTH Trailer This film explores the story about the Pope’s call to care for our planet. In […]

WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, #107, JANUARY 4, 2023

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https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2023/01/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-107-january-4.html Sandra Richter. Stewards of Eden.Empathy.  Lubna and the Pebble, The Expanding Circle, The Price of Empire Sandra Richter, Stewards of Eden.SCOT MCKNIGHT.    “War and the Environment.”  JULY 7, 2020.“The Bible speaks directly about war and the environment. If you besiege a town for a long time, making war against it in order to take it, you must not destroy its trees by wielding an ax against them. Although you may take food from them, you must not cut them down. Are trees in the field human beings that they should come under siege from you? Think about the wisdom of this, […]

Greetings Open Mic Folks

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A new year is upon us and Jan. Open Mic has fallen on New Year’s Day again this year. Most of our Omni people are not Superbowl fans because we always have a decent turnout even with hangovers and all!!! Maybe a loose theme could be NEW BEGINNINGS…STARTING OVER…something positive in that vein? Not a requirement…just a suggestion to kick off 2023. Sunday, Jan 1st, a t 7:00.  We want to give a HEADS UP theme for Feb. Open Mic.  WINTERING, DEATH, CROSSING OVER. Years ago we did that theme for our annual winter concert at Mike Shirkey’s and thought no one would come but […]