Pacific Northwest Conference News April 07, 2010 Because one act of the state legislature can undo millions of acts of Christian caring for the environment, LeeAnne Beres, director of Earth Ministry/Washington Interfaith Power and Light in Seattle, involves 350 member congregations in advocacy, as well as education and “greening.”
Seattle Channel March 11, 2010 In March, Earth Ministry invited friends and members to a forum hosted by The League of Women Voters about the effects of climate change on women around the world.
By Aiko Schaefer & Kevin J. O’Brien Seattle PostGlobe March 05, 2010 With great attention on Copenhagen and the international climate negotiations last December, it is tempting to think that the issue begins with complicated science and ends with the fate of distant polar bears. We believe that science and polar bears are deeply important, but climate change is also a moral issue about economic justice.
By WILLIAM YARDLEY New York Times January 16, 2010 MILLWOOD, Wash. — State auditors told Millwood Community Presbyterian Church last summer to close its farmers’ market on the church parking lot or the lot could no longer be claimed as tax-exempt. Without hesitation, the church kept the market and paid the $700 in annual taxes.
By Michelle Bearden U.S. Catholic January 14, 2010 Growing up in northern Virginia, Derek Eisel had a front-row seat to a changing world. He watched forests cut down and bucolic pasture land paved over into suburbs. He was told it was "progress," but he wasn't buying it. The effect it had on a young Eisel changed the course of his life. He believes watching nature disappear is when the seeds of his environmental activism were planted.
By Bishop William Chris Boerger The Bellingham Herald November 21, 2009 Extreme weather, rising sea levels, and drought are taking an awful toll on the poorest of people, while leaving no one unaffected. From Alaska to Georgia to Kenya, the bill for global warming pollution is coming due.
Congregational Resource Podcast October 15, 2009 Don't get wrapped up in the scientific details of climate change, says Jessie Dye, Program & Outreach Director for Earth Ministry. Wrap yourself instead in the earth-friendly roots of your faith tradition; and don't lose sight of the very real benefits that can come to your church's bottom-line. A nuts and bolts discussion on the benefits and modes of greening the congregation.
By Kevin Birnbaum The Catholic Northwest Progress October 01, 2009 “The green pope.” That’s the nickname Pope Benedict XVI has earned since his election in 2005, a reputation few environmentalists could have predicted at the time.
Sept 28, 2009 Austin, TX: Deep Conversion Communications founder, Elizabeth Freese, is the winner of the Franciscan Philanthropist Award in Earth Ministry’s national Care for Creation Sermon Contest, held at University Lutheran Church in Seattle on September 27, 2009. The event was a fundraiser, and Freese’s entry, “The Irresistible Sustainable Future,” raised the most money from attendees.
By LeeAnne Beres and Sara Patton The Seattle Times September 27, 2009 A DRAFT 20-year power and conservation plan from the Northwest's official power-planning agency contains several groundbreaking provisions, including a call to meet virtually all new electric demand with clean energy. But the plan would not reduce the region's greenhouse-gas emissions at all, and fails to address closure of the coal plants that produce almost all of the power system's climate pollution.
By Jenny Phillips and Chloe Schwabe Mindful Living: Human Health, Pollution, and Toxics July 08, 2009 They weren’t the results Rev. Jim Antal expected when he participated in the Is It In Us study, which tested the levels of dangerous toxics in the blood of typical north Americans. The fifty-eight year old minister and president of the United Church of Christ, Massachusetts Conference, is a vegetarian and an avid cyclist. He learned that he has been exposed to a variety of toxic chemicals, including phthalates, brominated flame retardants, and Bisphenol-A.
By Nick Mackenzie Religious Intelligence May 22, 2009 Members of the faith community in the USA are stepping up and speaking out today at an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) public hearing to determine if greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide that contribute to global climate change, are a threat to public health and welfare.
By Gary Chittim King 5 News May 21, 2009 SEATTLE - With a large waterfront rally providing a colorful and supportive backdrop, the state of Washington and a congressional committee took big steps today on the climate change front. Gov. Christine Gregoire signed an executive order today she says prepares the state for new laws she expects to emerge soon from Congress.
By Michelle Esteban KOMO News May 21, 2009 SEATTLE - It's not every day that the Environmental Protection Agency comes to town and asks people about climate change and what should be done about it. But it happened Thursday in Seattle - one of only two hearings held nationwide on greenhouse gases, global warming and pollution.
By Jonathan Hiskes Grist May 21, 2009 Climate organizer K.C. Golden stood with his back to a sparkling Elliot Bay in Seattle today, hushed the elementary-school students crowding a stage with him, and pointed to the glass wall of the convention center next door.
