GWIPL OFFERS CONDOLENCES TO FAMILY OF GINNY AND MICHAEL SPEVAK

For Immediate Release
November 24, 2008
Contact: Allison Fisher, GWIPL: 202.885.8684

Washington, DC - Greater Washington Interfaith Power and Light (GWIPL) joins family and friends in mourning the sudden loss of two local community and environmental leaders, Virginia "Ginny" and Michael Spevak. Ginny's volunteer time with GWIPL included giving testimony at a D.C. City Council hearing on the Clean Cars Act of 2007, on behalf of the Earth Stewards Task Force at Chevy Chase Presbyterian Church. In encouraging the Council to pass the Clean Cars Act, Ginny said, "Now is the time to start to make a more just society and a better future for the children of today and tomorrow. The climate crisis cannot be solved by voluntary actions alone."

"Putting their convictions into action, the Spevaks included passive solar design when they built their home over twenty-five years ago and more recently installed solar panels," said GWIPL Program Director Allison Fisher. "In her daily actions, Ginny strived to live out an ethic of care for God's creation. She also worked for public policy solutions to social and environmental threats, work of justice that is deeply rooted in the Christian faith. As Ginny said in her September 2007 testimony in front of the D.C. City Council, the projected impacts of global warming upon the poorest and most vulnerable among us require action through public policy. We give thanks to God for the lives of Ginny and Michael Spevak, and we express our deepest condolences to their famil and friends and Ginny's church, Chevy Chase Presbyterian Church."

In September 2008 at the Green Jobs Day of Action, Ginny Spevak looks on as Alison Maze of the Alice Ferguson Foundation discusses what happens to waste afer we throw it "away".

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Greater Washington Interfaith Power and Light (GWIPL) is a non-profit initiative that helps congregations, religious institutions and others in the Washington, D.C. area work for a more just, sustainable and healthier creation by reducing the threat of global warming. GWIPL is a part of a network of Interfaith Power and Light’s across the country mobilizing a national religious response to global warming.

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