Let Us Know: GWIPL’s Annual Survey
We invite you to participate in our annual survey of over 350 faith communities who are actively taking actions to be better caretakers of the environment. Please click here to take the survey.
Your participation will help us to better attract congregations to the eco-faith movement and serve faith communities just like yours. The results will help us to create two new online resources; a Google Earth map displaying the locations and particular actions that our congregations are taking, as well as success stories of specific congregations.
Please respond by July 20. Looking forward to seeing what is going on.
A Historic Moment for the Climate
Late on Friday June 26 the House of Representatives voted and passed, 219 to 212, the American Clean Energy and Security Act, a.k.a. the Waxman-Markey bill, and have set the stage for the US to have mandatory limits on global warming pollution. Thank you for all of your calls, emails and contacts with your representatives . If you have a moment please thank your reps who voted for the bill at (202) 224-3121 -- Gerry Connolly , Jim Moran, Chris Van Hollen, Steny Hoyer, Donna Edwards. And speak your mind to those who didn’t, like Roscoe Bartlett and Frank Wolf.
The debate will now be moving to the Senate, and we need your help to make sure we get fair and just legislation to ensure that we have a suitable world for the future. Please stay tuned!
GWIPL Honored
On June 1, GWIPL, along with Mr. Peter Adriance, Bhante Katugastota Uparatana, and The Very Rev. Lloyd Casson, received an Interfaith Bridge Builders’ Award for our “passionate commitment to inter-relgious care of the earth” from the Interfaith Conference of Metropolitan Washington. Thank you to everyone in the GWIPL network who helped to make us deserving of this honor.
Congregation in the Spotlight: Bringing the Ethic Home
Over 60 community members attended the solar open house hosted by the Sharon Fine Gallery and the Green Tikkun committee of Congregation Beth El of Montgomery County. Michael Katz demonstrated a number of green/sustainable activities including the new solar panels on his roof that provide power to their home/gallery every day, a solar backpack that can power or charge a laptop or other electronic devices, composting of food and plates/utensils made from corn, and rain water collection.
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