OHIO: Trinity Cathedral garden receives international grant
(August 13, 2009) Trinity Episcopal Cathedral's Charlie Comella Community Garden was chosen from more than 1,000 applicants to receive one of 20 $2,500 grants awarded in the United States and Canada by Fiskars Project Orange Thumb in 2009.
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Saving the Disadvantaged from Pollution
Skin color and wealth remain pervasive fault lines in U.S. society, as best proved by the persistence of economically and racially segregated communities. People living in these places face excessive stressors, including poverty, substandard housing, malnutrition and lack of health care. Environmental burdens—notably pollution from power plants, freeway corridors and chemical manufacturing plants—are also concentrated in the same neighborhoods.
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KENYA: Greed destroying the environment, church leaders say
(August 11, 2009) Protestant churches in Kenya are warning that greed is destroying the country's environment, bringing drought, famine, hunger, malnutrition and general scarcity.
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Sewanee launches Center for Religion and Environment
(July 30, 2009) The University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee, has announced the creation of the Center for Religion and Environment, which connects its College of Arts and Sciences, School of Theology, and All Saints Chapel in a partnership to strengthen its mission in education, church and society.
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Farmers put churches on the map
(July 20, 2009) Drew and Joan Norman started growing vegetables on their farm in White Hall, Maryland, in 1985 and eventually One Straw Farm became the state's largest organic vegetable farm, selling wholesale to up-market grocers including Whole Foods and Dean & Deluca.
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Money and faith present conflict between scarcity and abundance, Schut says
(July 14, 2009) A person's relationship to money is fundamentally a spiritual question: "Do we experience life from a place of abundance or do we experience it in scarcity?" said Michael Schut to a handful of people July 14 in a presentation at the Studio 8 Discovery Center in Anaheim, California.
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Awe and advocacy in a Tennessee forest
(June 10, 2009) When Congress acts to designate new National Forest areas as wilderness, local economic, political and ecological issues come into play. But what if spiritual values also influenced advocacy and decision making? That is what a small group of Episcopalians asked themselves as they set out on a wilderness retreat held June 4 to 7 in the Upper Bald River Wilderness Study Area of the Cherokee National Forest in southeast Tennessee, just south of Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
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Rogation Sunday fosters environmental awareness
(May 18, 2009) Care for the earth and its resources--more specifically, water--formed the theme for this year's Rogation Sunday services held May 17 at the Cathedral Church of St. Paul in Burlington, Vermont, a port city located on the eastern shore of Lake Champlain.
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Environmental collaboration celebrates Wyoming mountain range
(April 23, 2009) On April 21, the eve of Earth Day, the Wyoming Association of Churches gathered representatives of a broadly based coalition to celebrate the passage of national legislation protecting the Wyoming Range, a long chain of mountains running north and south in western Wyoming, from future mineral development.
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Heating up, cooling costs
(March 12, 2009) St. John the Divine in Moorhead, Minnesota, has been unable to afford adequate heat for more than one day a week in recent winters. The cost of fueling the two natural-gas boilers has skyrocketed. Now, with drilling of geothermal wells to begin soon, the congregation looks forward to making use of the historic building seven days a week
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March 22 bulletin inserts celebrate World Water Day
(March 09, 2009) March 22 has been designated World Water Day by the United Nations. In Episcopal Life Weekly bulletin inserts for that Sunday, Mary Getz of the Episcopal Church's Office of Government Relations writes that "water is central to our understanding of God's relationship to the world
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Kanuga continues commitment to sustainability
(February 11, 2009) Kanuga Conferences Inc., an Episcopal Church camp and conference facility for 80 years, is installing energy-saving solar panels to heat water at its 1,400-acre campus in the mountains near Hendersonville, North Carolina.
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Inspiration for environmental justice ministry at 39th annual Trinity Institute
(February 02, 2009) Environmental leaders from seven dioceses in Province IV gathered with undergraduates, seminary students, area clergy and lay people at the University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee, one of 80 partner sites of the Trinity Institute, on January 21- 23. "Radical Abundance: a Theology of Sustainability," the conference theme, had a particular appeal for those seeking a deeper grounding for environmental ministry.
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Image Gallery: Global warming
(November 24, 2008) Gathering in groups or working at home, young or o
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A ringing appeal for action on climate change
(November 20, 2008) Church bells around New England will be ringing th
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Nature's stewards
(November 17, 2008) Episcopal youngsters have enjoyed summer camp for
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Lutherans host exploration of food and faith
(November 07, 2008) Exploring relationships between science, food and faith, more than 100 participants traveled to Faith Lutheran Church in Clive, Iowa October 31-November 2 for the "Food and Faith: Making the Connection" conference. Scientists from many disciplines, members of clergy, and persons involved with all aspects of food systems -- as well as exhibitors from relief, development and advocacy organizations -- attended this fifth annual
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Schut named environmental officer
(October 20, 2008) Michael Schut, advocate and educator in environmen
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Greening the church
(6/1/2005) From grassroots “green building” projects to international conferences, Episcopalians are seeking ways to integrate their faith with care for the environment. Interest is growing, as are efforts to link members and organizations within the environmental movement with each other and with other faith groups.
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Successful interfaith activism
(6/1/2005) For years major manufacturers in Hudson County processed chromite ore into chromate chemicals, which are used in paints, chrome plating, leather tanning and other industrial processes and products. The production process left millions of tons of chromate chemical waste that later became fill at schools, homes, playgrounds and other Hudson County building sites, predominately in densely populated Jersey City, home mostly to low-income African Americans.
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A cup of activism
(6/1/2005) A growing number of congregations and individuals are buying fair-trade, organic, shade-grown coffee. This means coffee growers in developing countries receive a fair wage for their product, which is grown in an environmentally friendly and sustainable fashion.
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Clean Sweep for Mother Nature
(6/1/2005) Nine faith communities – Episcopal, Catholic, Lutheran, Presbyterian, United Methodist, Baha’i, Jewish, Unitarian Universalist and Zen Buddhist – co-sponsored Clean Sweep with two environmental groups, the Keweenaw Bay Indian Community and Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm’s Office of Faith-Based Initiatives. A $15,000 Environmental Protection Agency Environmental Justice Grant helped fund the project.
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Being in harmony with creation
(6/1/2005) Our focus on the environment moves us not simply to admire and rejoice in the beauty that surrounds us, but also to recover and renew our gratitude and reverence for the wonder of creation of which we ourselves are a part. In so doing, may we indeed be faithful stewards of the world God has given into our care.
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Women as the Voice for the Environment (WAVE) brings women together in Nairobi
(11/15/2004)
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Scientists and Religious Leaders Issue Letter on Climate Change
(5/19/2004) Presiding Bishop Frank T. Griswold joined 30 national religious leaders and prominent scientists in signing a letter to U.S. Senators, bringing attention to global climate change and pressing senate leaders to revisit consideration of legislation to reduce human-created greenhouse gases. Nobel Prize winners, evangelicals, Orthodox, Roman Catholics and Jewish leaders joined a number of mainline church leaders in the effort lead by the National Religious Partnership for the Environment.
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Special Earth Day issue of The Witness
(4/22/2004) This edition of The Witness' email newsletter offers a large, diverse collection of articles on environmental & development issues in the context of faith and spirituality.
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Presiding Bishop joins Christian leaders in Earth Day letter to President Bush on Clean Air Policy
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Victory for Arctic drilling opponents at BP general meeting
(4/15/2004) For the first time publicly, BP, third largest oil company and fifth largest corporation in the world, announced today that it has no future plans to drill in the Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR).
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Earth Day Sunday 2004
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Episcopalians will gather at biannual conference entitled: Enough for All: Sustainable Living in a Global World
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Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
(3/13/2003)
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Episcopal Bishops In New England Issue First Pastoral Letter On The Environment
(2/27/2003)
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To Serve Christ in All Creation
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Episcopal Bishops Call the Church to Action Amid Environmental Crisis
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Declaration to the Anglican Communion
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Declaration to the United Nations World Summit on Sustainable Development
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New England religious leaders call for action on climate change plan
(6/12/2002) Calling global warming 'a crime against Creation,' New England religious leaders, including many Episcopalians, converged on their state capitols on June 11 to ask the six New England governors to implement the Climate Change Action Plan to which they agreed last August. The plan calls for regional reduction of greenhouse emissions to 1990 levels by 2010 and long-term reductions of 75-85 percent.
At the Massachusetts State House, more than a hundred Christian, Jewish, Muslim, and other wor...
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Conservation Based Energy Policy
(2/24/2002)
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