The National Council of Churches Eco-Justice Program sent the following action alert on mountaintop removal. Learn more about the EPA action on Eco-Journey. Join us in saying “Thank You” to the EPA for saying “no” to the devastation that Mountaintop…
Read more »Swords into Plowshares, the blog of the Presbyterian Peacemaking Program and the Presbyterian Ministry at the United Nations posted the following blog on how to support access to clean drinking water through the UNICEF Tap Project. Give the gift of…
Read more »There are two recent victories for protection of God’s Creation that I’d like to share with you. On January 13, 2011, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announcedthat it has vetoed West Virginia’s largest single mountaintop removal mining permit. The…
Read more »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 »I was recently contacted by Barbara Spring, a Presbyterian from Grand Haven, Michigan. She wrote to let me know about her book, The Dynamic Great Lakes, which gives a history of the Great Lakes, and an overview of ecological issues…
Read more »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…
Read more »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…
Read more »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,…
Read more »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)…
Read more »On October 3rd many Presbyterian Churches collect the Peacemaking Offering. Also on October 3, the National Council of Churches Eco-Justice Program is asking churches around the country to participate in a “Seeking God’s Grace for the Gulf: A Day of…
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