Interfaith Power and Light (IPL) is sponsoring a National Preach-In on Global Warming on the weekend of February 11-13. The organization, which works to mobilize a religious response to global warming by promoting renewable energy, energy efficiency, and conservation, is…
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Measure Your Home’s Energy Efficiency
The Environmental Protection Agency’s Energy Star program has a tool that can help you track how your home energy consumption and efficiency. After you enter data from the last year of your home energy bills, The Energy Star Home Energy…
Read more »The Christmas Tree Conundrum
The first winter I was out of college, living in an apartment on my own, I did what I thought was the environmentally responsible thing, and ran out to buy an artificial Christmas tree. I convinced my parents to do…
Read more »Climate and social justice: from Cancun #1
The following is reposted from the Presbyterian Hunger Program Food and Faith Blog: Climate and social justice: from Cancun #1 Blain Snipstal and Bethel Erickson during the Agrarian Road Trip in June Blain Snipstal, HEART Road Trip alumnus, is currently…
Read more »Caring for Creation in the Season of Advent
I recently became aware of a study guide for caring for creation during Advent, and I apologize that I am just now sharing the news about it – the day after Advent started. I recently read Love God Heal Earth:…
Read more »Ensure Clean Air for All
The National Council of Churches Eco-Justice Program sent the following action alert: Clean air is central to everyone’s life. It ensures that children can run and play outside with ease, it helps prevent respiratory problems in the elderly, and it…
Read more »Celebrate United Nations Day on October 24
United Nations Day is celebrated each year on October 24 to commemorate the founding of the United Nations on that day in 1945. Visit the PC(USA) Peacemaking Program and Presbyterian Ministry at the United Nations blog “Swords into Plowshares” to…
Read more »Swarthmore Presbyterian Church Earns Second Energy Star for Congregations Award
Swarthmore Presbyterian Church in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, recently received a 2010 Energy Star for Congregations Award. This makes Swarthmore PC only the second congregation to earn an Energy Star for Congregations Award for two consecutive years. Congratulations to Swarthmore PC for…
Read more »10/10/10 Global Work Party
On October 10, 2010, or 10/10/10, 350.org is sponsoring a global work party to celebrate climate solutions and call for political progress on climate change. Find a work party near you, or work with your church to organize a work…
Read more »Public Hearing on Coal Ash
Coal ash at the Cane Run Power Plant in Louisville, KY The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is holding public hearings and taking public comment on proposed changes to the way that coal ash (the leftover waste when coal is burned)…
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