Posts Categorized: Current Affairs

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…

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Help Heal the Gulf Coast

The National Council of Churches Eco-Justice Program sent the following action alert: It’s been more than six months since the beginning of the Gulf Coast oil spill. Even though the well has been capped, communities are still suffering, God’s creatures…

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Environmental Excellence at Heartland Presbyterian Center

This past weekend I attended a Presbyterians for Earth Care meeting at Heartland Presbyterian Centerin Parkville, Missouri. The timing for this meeting could not have been better. The first night that we were at the center, members of its staff…

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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…

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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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Protect Communities from Coal Ash

Ask the EPA to protect communities from coal ash Even after coal is burned in power plants, its waste still affects communities. Coal combustion waste, or coal ash, is what is left over after coal is burned. Coal ash can…

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Presbyterian Office of Public Witness Webinar this Thursday

From the Presbyterian Office of Public Witness in Washington, DC: Register Online for the Webinar: Stated Clerk Gradye Parsons on the 219th General Assembly (2010) Please join us for the Presbyterian Office of Public Witness (OPW) Webinar in Washington, DC:…

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Fair Food and Christian Vocation Sunday

Just before Christian Vocation Sunday and Labor Day, the Campaign for Fair Food of the Presbyterian Hunger Program has announced that the Coalition of Immokalee Workers has come to a fair food agreement with Sodexo. The Campaign for Fair Food…

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August Eco-Notes E-Newsletter

Subscribe to Eco-Notes, the monthly e-newsletter from Environmental Ministries. Below is the August edition of Eco-Notes. Join a webinar on Earth Care Congregations and Energy Star PC(USA) Congregations that are interested in working on earth care are invited to participate…

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