WHEN I was a boy in Tibet, I felt that my own Buddhist religion must be the best — and that other faiths were somehow inferior. Now I see how naïve I was, and how dangerous the extremes of religious intolerance can be today.

The legislative season just concluding July 31, 2008 at the State House in Massachusetts produced a bumper crop of new environmental legislation. Five different bills passed. This is big! Huge, in fact. It represents a fresh and progressive approach that simultaneously addresses conservation, technology – renewable energy, and a green economy. As a newcomer to the environmental advocacy work I stand in awe of what has been accomplished. …

A four-part research article exploring a new sense of emerging humility about what humans have wrought and a renewed sense of hope at what might be achieved to save life on Earth. Part One, “Introduction,” …

A four-part research article exploring a new sense of emerging humility about what humans have wrought and a renewed sense of hope at what might be achieved to save life on Earth. Part Two, “Theological Underpinnings and the Natural World” …