Blue Marble

Blue Marble podcast:  Rev. Char Bear provides latest news about environmental issues, concerns, their impacts, solutions and what we all can do to put our green faith into action to protect each other and the planet.  This episode focuses on the infamous Project 2025 and its implications for standing up for our planet!  Air date Dec. 20, 2024 at 7pm Central.

Blue Marble podcast: Rev. Char Bear brings you current info about environmental impacts, solutions and ways we can put our green faith into practice to protect each other and our planet.  This episode focuses on the latest about hurricanes and typhoons.  Air date 11/15/24 @7pm Central

Join Rev. Char Bear for a catch up on current ways to put your green faith into action for the planet and for each other.  This time I'll be talking about how Gen X, Y and Z are shaping the conversation about the climate crisis, how they are feeling about it, what they are doing about it, and how all of us can help.

Blue Marble podcast. Join Rev. Char Bear in learning how to put our hope into action for the planet and for each other.  This time I’m talking about innovative solutions to the biodiversity loss crisis—things like reforestation drones, agroecology, community-based conservation and much more.  Let’s get into it.

Blue Marble:  Join Rev. Char Bear in learning how to put our hope into action for the planet and for each other.  This time I’m talking about the shift in how electricity is being generated around the world.  Renewables generated over 30% of all electricity globally last year.  Find out more and what you can do to help. 

Blue Marble podcast.  Join Rev. Char Bear in learning how to put our hope into action for the planet and for each other.  This episode focuses on upcycled fashion, an old-fashioned idea getting a whole new eco-trendy bump.  Upcycle your fashion for the planet!

Blue Marble podcast--put your love of Gaia into action.  Join Rev. Char Bear for motivation and education about how to put your nature centered spirituality into action for the planet and for each other.  This episode will be sharing with you the latest news about a global treaty on plastic pollution, how that affects the entire web of life, and what you can do to help.

Blue Marble podcast.  Join Rev. Char Bear and guests for motivation and education about how to put your nature centered spirituality into action for the planet and for each other.  This time our guest is Charles Curtin, Ph.D., scientist, activist and author of a compelling trilogy of books, “The Science of Open Spaces,” “Complex Ecology,” and his new release “Beyond Resilience.” 

Blue Marble podcast.  Join Rev. Char Bear and guests for motivation and education about how to put your green faith into action for the planet and for each other.  This time we'll be discussing the intersection between disability justice and environmental justice with special guest Pamela “Kelly” McAfee.  Our changing climate is creating new challenges for us all. Please don’t let the disabled community remain an afterthought.

Join Rev. Char Bear and guests for motivation and education about how to put your green faith into action for the planet and for each other.  In this episode, healthcare chaplains Rev. Char Bear and Rev. Andrew Bear discuss the restorative power of belonging in nature for overcoming climate grief, existential dread and cognitive fatigue.  

Join Rev. Char Bear and guests for motivation and education about how to put your green faith into action for the planet and for each other. Here we share personal stories and lively discussions about environmental and climate justice issues and things we can do to help. This time, our featured guest is Dan Linehan, an award-winning climate communicator, scientist, author, producer and educator. In this episode we’re focusing on strategic climate communication.  For more about Dan, go to his website at http://www.dslinehan.com.

Blue Marble podcast featuring special guest Nan Foster.  Char Bear and friends share personal stories about love and faith in action for our planet and lively discussions about climate justice issues and things we can do to help.  This time, Unitarian Universalist Nan Foster will be sharing her journey so far in catalyzing a climate action ministry in her home congregation. 

Blue Marble podcast.  Every month Rev. Char Bear and friends share personal stories about love and faith in action for our planet and for each other.  This episode, Jess LeClair, Ph.D. will talk about nursing for planetary health.  Be sure to tune in.

Blue Marble podcast.  Every month Rev. Char Bear and friends are keeping it real, sharing personal stories about climate impacts, climate solutions and various eco-activist adventures. Tune in to resonate with how we all can manifest good energy for the planet.  This episode, Bear is joined by special guest, Rev. Chip Brown of Circle Sanctuary, minister, leader and advocate, who will tell us about the sustainable land/build projects he's been involved with and their progress.

Rev. Char Bear and guests share spirited conversations about ways to put your green faith into action and to manifest good energy for the planet!  In this episode, Rev. Laura González, Priestess of the Goddess and Minister of Circle Sanctuary, joins Rev. Char in discussing misogyny and eco-feminism/ eco-activism, and highlighting Laura's knowledge of working with Indigenous traditions of sustainability.

Blue Marble podcast.  Every month Rev. Char Bear and friends are keeping it real, sharing personal stories about climate impacts, climate solutions and various eco-activist adventures. Tune in to resonate with how we all can manifest good energy for the planet.  This episode focuses on protecting biodiversity in a time of climate change, featuring special guest Theo LeQuesne, Ph.D. with the Center for Biological Diversity’s Climate Law Institute. 

Char Bear offers spirited discussion about how to put your green faith into action and make some good energy for the planet.  This month's special episode features Circle Sanctuary's delegates to the Parliament of the World's Religions that took place in Chicago, August 2023.  They will share their experiences about being a key part of such an important and historic event!  

Blue Marble podcast.  Every month Rev. Char Bear and friends are keeping it real, sharing personal stories about climate impacts, climate solutions and various eco-activist adventures. Tune in to resonate with how we all can manifest good energy for the planet.  This episode, Circle Minister, aromatherapist, educator and author, Dree Amandi, joins Bear in talking about living in a time of climate change in the Evergreen State.

Blue Marble: Every month Rev. Char Bear and friends are keeping it real, sharing personal stories about climate impacts, climate solutions and various eco-activist adventures. Tune in to resonate with how we all can manifest good energy and good magic for the planet.  Special guest, Mary Williams, and Char Bear talk about real world experience working with home electrification solutions, small steps to big, from community choice energy for all to the IRA incentives that help now.

Blue Marble:  Youth Environmental Leadership Training.  Rev. Char Bear shares insights about manifesting good magic for the planet through sustainable living and eco-activism that makes a difference.  This month Bear highlights two international programs for youth environmental leadership: Roots and Shoots and also Faith for Earth Empathy Leadership Programme (FEEL).  Learn what these are, what they do well, and what you can do to help empower upcoming generations.

Blue Marble:  The Future of Food. Rev. Char Bear shares insights about manifesting good magic for the planet through sustainable living and eco-activism that makes a difference. This month focuses on the future of food undergoing transformation.  The continued pandemic(s), climate change and rising hunger are tied to fragile food systems that degrade the environment and undermine public health.  Learn about what food transformation means, why it matters and what you can do about it.

Rev. Char Bear shares insights about manifesting good magic for the planet through sustainable living and eco-activism that makes a difference.  This month focuses on Earth Day and the US Climate Action Summit on April 19, 2023.  Why do we care about these summits?  Are they just more blah blah blah, or do they actually make a difference?  As people of green faith, how can we add serious energy to these national efforts to push climate solutions and eco-justice?

Blue Marble: Quality Water for Life.  Rev. Char Bear shares spirited conversations about ways to put your green faith into action and to manifest good magic for the planet!  This month focuses on Water security and the UN Water Conference March 22-24, 2023.  90% of today’s climate disasters are water related.  2018-2028 was resolved by the UN to be an International Decade for Action on Water for Sustainable Development, and this conference will be a midterm comprehensive review.  Bear will walk you through what matters and what you can do to honor this essential element of water.

Blue Marble podcast:  Stoking your home forge with clean energy heat pumps. Rev. Char Bear shares spirited conversations about ways to put your green faith into action and to manifest good magic for the planet!  Keeping it real. This month focuses on home heat pumps.  February is Imbolc month, associated usually with the Goddess Brigid and the elements of water and fire.  An emerging source of heat that is replacing polluting gas heaters is the home heat pump.  This podcast will give a down and dirty overview of what they are, how you get them, and how they work to stoke your home’s clean energy forge.

Char Bear shares spirited conversations about ways to put your green faith into action and to manifest good magic for the planet! Keeping it real.  When we talk about "just transitions," what the heck?  This month's episode of Blue Marble podcast focuses on just transitions, including funds for loss and damages.  This was a big focus of the UN’s COP27 in Egypt in 2022, and it remains a local and global issue going forward.  The key is who is at the table making decisions?  Kick off the new solar year resolving to be an eco-justice advocate!

From the trillion dollar industry to develop plastic alternatives you can use daily to scientific races to clean up plastic pollution to grass roots activism in many countries to stop plastic production at its source, Rev. Char Bear offers a spirited overview of what's up and what you can do in your home and how you can participate in this global call to action.

The plant-based food revolution is catching on fast, and it's becoming big business.  In this year of crazy food prices, going plant based to help the planet can be hugely expensive, or it can be very affordable.  Rev. Char Bear will share her experience field testing preparing vegan holiday foods on a budget, including how to fill your pantry with low cost supplies, batch cook and whip together yummy nutritious meals that satisfy holiday cravings.

Climate Action Now—digital activism at your finger tips.   Professional actor, activist and President of Climate Action Now joins Rev. Char Bear in talking about the exciting digital activism tool, the Climate Action Now app, that is easy to use and effective.  Featured is what is this tool, how it got started, how it works and how it supports climate justice activism.

Wondering what climate incentives are in the new Inflation Reduction Act that might affect you?  Rev. Char Bear gives an overview of various ways that the IRA encourages us to green our homes, support a just transition away from fossil fuels and help the USA to meet its carbon emission reduction goals.

Solarizing Your Home Circle Sanctuary ministers, Revs. Jeanet and Dave Ewing share their insights and experience about how to transition to a solar powered home, including benefits, hurdles and gains to consider.

Pagans in the Military and Climate Change July Blue Marble will discuss Pagans in the Military and Climate Change.  Guests include current era military members of Circle Sanctuary, Rev. James Jufer (US Army) and MTP candidate Alison Kline (US Airforce).  We will be responding to how the DoD is elevating climate change as a national security priority, integrating climate considerations into policies, strategies and partner engagements.

Is Nuclear the Next Energy Surge? Campbell Scott, Ph.D., Fellow with the American Physical Society, former assistant professor at Cornell University, career scientist and researcher joins Rev. Char Bear in evaluating the current calls for more nuclear energy as a transition away from fossil fuels.

Why and How Climate Justice Activism is Key to Pagan Spiritual Practice Today Senior Ministers and Founders of Circle Sanctuary, Rev. Selena Fox and Rev. Dennis Carpenter join Rev. Char Bear in breaking down why climate justice activism is key to pagan worldviews, beliefs, values and how we can incorporate it into our various pagan spiritual practices.

This Paradoxical Moment and Making it Count Rev. Char Bear is joined by two transformational leaders in the digital era, Lisa Friedman, Ph.D and Herman Gyr, Ph.D to discuss the dynamics of this paradoxical moment in human history and how to make it count.

Don’t Look Up with Ben Bear Ben Bear shares reflections from Gen-X, Gen-Uh, Gen-Y, and Gen-Z about climate crisis and what facing the future means to younger generations.