Desmond Tutu, prayerful priest

Desmond Tutu is to withdraw from public life. We'll be all the poorer without his frenetic energy

By Colin Slee, guardian.co.uk

Climate Art Contest Announced: Deadline Extended to September 6

Innovative online art contest CoolClimate explores the many facets of climate change.

Creative Visions Foundation

LOS ANGELES -- The Gulf oil disaster is but one example of the ways in which our fossil fuel economy is impacting the planet wecall home. But as bad as this catastrophe is, the specter of global climate change looms even larger as a threat to sustaining life on Earth. Despite overwhelming evidence -- species extinction and dwindling water supplies to mass migrations and mega-storms -- the public is still unclear what climate really means for them.

Jackson Browne on Ellyn Maybe and her album Rodeo for the Sheepish

August 16, 2010

I have started to write something about you for your site several times, and each time I am struck by my inability to describe what you do in terms beautiful enough, original enough to do you justice. But it's always been this way. Who has ever been able to say in other words what a song says? Maybe it's why I like your poems so much, they say what can only be said in exactly the way you say it. The best way of turning someone on to you is to play you for them.

- Jackson Browne