Jay P. Lefkowitz, Bush’s deputy domestic policy adviser when the global AIDS initiative was being developed, gives an insider’s account of the president’s interest in
The New York Times Magazine is filled with ideas from 2008. One is a device for doing carbon penance: Annina Rüst, a Swiss-born artist-inventor, wanted
General Theological Seminary in New York has successfully installed seven geothermal wells, with 15 more slated for installation. These wells will replace the fuel oil heating system and reduce the seminary’s carbon footprint significantly. But the red tape surrounding the green project has been a nightmare.
Christopher Jamison, the Abbot of Worth, in the Inaugural “Noah Lecture” has spoken about ways that people of faith might act to lead society out of the present financial and global climate crises. He points the finger of blame at our willingness to start believing that “greed is good” and says that we need to return to the basics of moral theology.
Bishop Tom Ely: I will convene a Task Force to study and plan for what it will take to bring renewable energy projects to Rock Point and to make Rock Point – by the year 2015 – a model of energy conservation and efficiency in Vermont and beyond.
Here’s a new take on observing the Feast of St. Francis, in case you’d rather spend it at the beach. With 6- to 10-foot waves crashing down behind them, two Catholic priests led some 400 interfaith worshipers in a “Blessing of the Waves” at Huntington Beach.
What would it take for us in the Episcopal Church to stop producing millions of pages of bulletins and service booklets every Sunday? We all know how costly it is for our environment to keep producing paper, to say nothing of the cost of making and maintaining computers, printers, copiers, sorters, and duplicators.
…it turns out that the animal welfare cause started as a Christian movement, that the Humane Society has an employee whose title is “director of the animals and religion program,” and that the society is now embarked on an “All Creatures Great and Small” campaign aimed at religious congregations and schools
Who knew that there was a black market for decreasing your carbon footprint? A sophisticated thief or thieves—the crime takes technical skills to execute—has been removing solar panels from various facilities in the San Francisco Bay area. A suspect is thought to have been selling them on e-Bay, according to InsideBayDaily.com.
As Gustav looms large in the Gulf of Mexico, churches that remember all too well the marauding of Katrina are preparing to be at the front lines, drawing from lessons learned in the storm of 2005.