The People’s Green

The People’s Green started out in January as the blog of an eco-bookworm.  As I said then, in my first stab an an “About,” I wanted “to explore the crossroads (and sometimes crossfire) between poverty and ecology — between the earth’s poor and the poor earth.”  And to be sure, I’m still convicted by Jurgen Moltmann’s words, that “we shall not be able to achieve social justice without justice for the environment; we shall not be able to achieve justice for nature without social justice.”

But since then the blog has evolved into something a little more personal.  Occasionally — I’m tempted to say “at its worst” — PG still delves into pontifications about how the world’s gone to hell in a hand-basket and the polar caps are melting — all things that need to be said, but perhaps a little less by me.  But at its best, I think, it’s becoming the journal of my own struggle to take these abstract thoughts about poverty, sustainability, place, and human limitation, and bringing them home in my own life where there’s bills to pay and dogs to feed, where the neighbor yells at his power tools, and where the moon still finds its way into our window.

Nathan

I’m a 30-year-old amateur this, amateur that.  Amateur singer/songwriter.  Amateur theologian.  Amateur environmentalist & social justice-ist.  I work for a homeless ministry.  My wife, Jen, and I are due for our first young’un in September.  Go ahead and tell us, “Your life is gonna change!”