Posts Categorized: Environmental Health

Eco-Justice at Ecumenical Advocacy Days

The National Council of Churches Eco-Justice Program sent the following information about the Eco-Justice Track at Ecumenical Advocacy Days (EAD) on March 25-28, 2011: The annual EAD conference in Washington, DCis a space for the ecumenical Christian community to worship,…

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Toxic Toys

I was sent the following action alert from the National Council of Churches Eco-Justice Program. Please take a few moments to ask Congress to protect children’s health from toxic toys. Christmas is about celebrating the birth of the Christ and…

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Story of Electronics and Simple Living Advent Calendar

As we approach Christmas, there are two resources I’d like to bring to your attention: The Story of Stuff Project has a new video “The Story of Electronics.” Like the other videos in the series, “The Story of Electronics” traces…

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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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Mountaintop Removal as an Issue of Faith

Silas House and Jason Howard, two Kentucky authors, have written a new book entitled Something’s Rising: Appalachians Fighting Mountaintop Removal. The book includes twelve oral histories of Appalachian residents whose lives have been directly affected by mountaintop removal. House and…

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Say No to Coal Ash in Your Drinking Water

The National Council of Churches Eco-Justice Program sent the following action alert: Families in Eastern Tennessee received an early unwanted Christmas present in 2008. Their homes were filled with coal ash, which contains hazardous pollutants such as lead, mercury, arsenic,…

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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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