Sharon Delgado

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Category: The Web of Life

  • Light in the Darkness of Climate Change

    Sermon preached on August 16, 2021 at Nevada City United Methodist Church (sermon begins 30.44 minutes in) Humanity is facing a code red alert because of how much and how fast the planet is heating up, and most of the warming is unequivocally the result of human greenhouse gas emissions. That’s the message from the…

  • No Climate for Reopening a Mine

    No Climate for Reopening a Mine

    Hi Friends, I published this post to support our local struggle to keep from reopening a gold mine in Grass Valley: As we residents of Nevada County struggle to adapt to extreme drought, heat waves, water shortages, periodic power outages, and threat of forest fires, Rise Gold is trying to persuade us that reopening the…

  • Local Grandmothers Highlight Intergenerational Pipeline Struggle

    Local Grandmothers Highlight Intergenerational Pipeline Struggle

    In late May, I travelled to Minnesota by train with three other local grandmothers, Janie Kesselman, Shirley Osgood, and Joyce Banzhaf, to join a 31-member delegation of 1000 Grandmothers for Future Generations. Our purpose was to highlight the intergenerational nature of the struggle to stop construction of the Enbridge Line 3 dirty tar sands oil…

  • The Struggle to Stop Line 3

    Hello Friends, It has been a long time since I have written a blog post, but I’m happy to report that I recently turned in a manuscript for a book that I have been working on all year, so here I am. I’ll tell you more about it when it gets closer to time for…

  • Conflicting Worldviews at the Global Climate Action Summit

    Progressive Christian Social Action Conflicting Worldviews at the Global Climate Action Summit I’ve been back from San Francisco for a week now, and I’m still processing all that I learned and experienced at the Soil Not Oil Conference, faith-based workshops on climate change at Grace Cathedral, affinity group and spokes council meetings, and three demonstrations…

  • Climate Change-What Love Requires

    Progressive Christian Social Action Climate Change-What Love Requires This post is an excerpt from Love in a Time of Climate Change, published at the Evangelicals for Social Action website. It was love that brought me to this jail cell. – Sandra Steingraber When my granddaughter Nikayla was ten years old, climate change became real to her.…

  • Creation Crucified:  The Passion of the Earth

    During Lent, Christians remember and grieve Jesus’ death at the hands of a murderous system that included official representatives, religious collaborators, a public that could be manipulated, and friends who betrayed, denied, or abandoned him.  We remember and grieve the countless others who have been executed over the years by similar systems of worldly power. …

  • More Clearcuts in Nevada County?

    Sierra Pacific Industries (SPI) is at it again, planning to clearcut forested areas in Nevada County.  The Wash Timber Harvest Plan (THP) outlines their plans to engage in industrial forestry on 160 forested acres five miles from Nevada City, on land right next to South Yuba State Park.  According to the local Forest Issues Group,…

  • Preparing for Trial in North Dakota

    UPDATE:  My trial has been postponed until February or March, because there are so many court cases.  Shirley’s trial is now scheduled for Jan. 31, together with Janie and Christy’s.  Their trials could be postponed as well.   As the New Year approaches, four of us from Nevada County who were arrested in November during…

  • Standing for Standing Rock

    “The Earth does not belong to man; Man belongs to the Earth. This we know. All things are connected like the blood which unites one family. Whatever befalls the Earth befalls the sons of the Earth. Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to…