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Lenten up already! A Christian quest to cut carbon	Ashley Braun	07 Feb 2008	Gristmill
With the start of Lent, Christians the world-over are praying, fasting, and giving alms in preparation for Easter. This often means also making some kind of sacrifice in the name of solidarity with the poor and the Church ... you know, getting guilted into giving up your most savory sins: gorging yourself on Moose Tracks ice cream or ogling Al Gore. Going without. For forty days. In a row. It's often perceived as a chore akin to New Year's Resolutions -- and adhered to ...
Topics: food, green living, religion and spirituality, vegetarianism and veganism (all these topics)

Fast Company Church of England urges carbon fast for Lent		05 Feb 2008	News
Posted at 1:43 PM on 05 Feb 2008 Planning to give up alcohol or chocolate for 40 days when the season of Lent begins tomorrow? Two Church of England bishops are urging churchgoers to instead take part in a carbon fast. From the Archives Unhappy Campers. Fewer folks are regularly getting out in nature, says study. Full of Mitt. Romney flip-flops, does not support California CO2 waiver. The Fellowship of the Ping. ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, green living, greenhouse-gas emissions, news, religion and spirituality (all these topics)

Mormon green	David Roberts	28 Jan 2008	Gristmill
Via Andrew Sullivan comes this green Mormon blog. Why? This is the short answer (in Mormon speak): Because I have a testimony of our responsibility as stewards of God's Creation. Elder Oaks gave a great talk entitled Good, Better, Best. Some might put sustainability into the "good" category. I confess that when compared to the things of eternity, temporal issues like sustainability may not fall in the category of "best" or even "bett ...
Topics: religion and spirituality (all these topics)

The New Jesus Project Somewhere in a parallel universe ...	Ken Ward	26 Dec 2007	Gristmill
Jerry Falwell, President Moral Majority Lynchburg, VA December 25, 1978 Dear Jerry, It is altogether fitting and proper that we should be meeting at this holy time of year. Attached is the final version of the focus group analysis. Nothing new in the numbers, but we have added several recommendations since the last draft. What we are proposing is controversial, and we expect a lively discussion at the Executive Committee meeting. Also enclosed ple ...
Topics: religion and spirituality (all these topics)

The Power of Eight This Hanukkah, make time to reflect on climate and conservation	Rabbi Arthur Waskow, Rabbi Jeff Sultar	03 Dec 2007	Grist Feature
By Rabbi Arthur Waskow and Rabbi Jeff Sultar 03 Dec 2007 There are three levels of wisdom through which Hanukkah invites us to address the planetary dangers of the global climate crisis -- what some of us call "global scorching" because "warming" seems so pleasant, so comforting. Light a candle, heal the earth. Photo: iStockphoto We can encode these three teachings into actions we take to heal ...
Topics: climate, energy, green living, holiday, religion and spirituality (all these topics)

Values Evangelicals gather in D.C. and reaffirm that climate is not their focus	David Roberts	20 Oct 2007	Gristmill
In D.C., the Values Voters Summit is in full swing. For those not familiar, the summit is a who's-who gathering of the modern-day religious right, where Republican presidential candidates come to beg, plead, and pander for evangelical support. This is of some interest to greens, because there's been a ton of talk over the last year about how evangelicals may be the New Green Secret Weapon, a constituency that will shift the political dynamic and make green mainstream ...
Topics: politics, religion and spirituality (all these topics)

What a Revelation Publisher will produce first eco-friendly Bible		09 Oct 2007	News
Posted at 1:42 PM on 09 Oct 2007 Coming soon to a hotel room near you: the first green Bible, expected to hit the scene later this month from publisher Thomas Nelson. The Charles F. Stanley Life Principles Daily Bible -- which perhaps includes the 11th commandment "Thou shalt be principled"? -- will be certified by the Forest Stewardship Council and contain recycled fiber. Says Tyson Miller of the Green Press Initiative ...
Topics: books, business, green living, greening biz operations, news, religion and spirituality (all these topics)

Sweet XVI Pope lauds Montreal Protocol, Vatican aims for carbon neutrality		17 Sep 2007	News
Posted at 5:18 PM on 17 Sep 2007 The Montreal Protocol turned 20 this weekend -- and you forgot to get it a gift, didn't you. As nearly 200 nations convene this week to discuss the protocol, which has been successful in spurring an international phaseout of ozone-depleting chemicals, it has been lauded by no less a person than Pope Benedict XVI, who declared on Sunday, "In the last two decades, thanks to an exemplar ...
Topics: international treaties, Italy, news, ozone, religion and spirituality (all these topics)

Pray Tell Religious leaders convene for a floating climate-change symposium		12 Sep 2007	News
Posted at 5:40 PM on 12 Sep 2007 Religious leaders from Buddhist, Christian, Hindu, Jewish, Shiite, Shinto, and Sunni traditions are in the midst of a six-day climate-change symposium coordinated by Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I. Traveling on a ship down the coast of rapidly melting Greenland, the leaders are floating ideas on cooperating to close the perceived gap between religious and environmental interests. Say ...
Topics: climate, news, religion and spirituality (all these topics)

Christians against coal mining Rev. Allen Johnson calls on churches to condemn mountaintop-removal mining	Grist	08 Sep 2007	Gristmill
This is a guest post from Rev. Allen Johnson, whom we interviewed last year as part of our God & the Environment series. Johnson heads Christians for the Mountains, a group fighting to protect the Appalachians from mountaintop-removal mining. This post is reprinted with permission from the Moyers Blog. ----- On August 22, The New York Times published an article that began, 'The Bush administration is set to issue a regulation on Friday [August 24] that would ens ...
Topics: coal, coal-to-liquid fuel, mining, politics, religion and spirituality, West Virginia (all these topics)

Critical Mass Pope urges youth to care for the planet		04 Sep 2007	News
Posted at 7:37 AM on 04 Sep 2007 Pope Benedict XVI preached the gospel of green to hundreds of thousands of young Catholics in Loreto, Italy, on Sunday, one day after the Italian church's designated Save Creation Day. While the church gave out recycled-material backpacks filled with biodegradable plates, hand-cranked cell-phone chargers, and prayer books printed on recycled paper, the pontiff implored young people to care for the earth. &quo ...
Topics: Italy, news, religion and spirituality (all these topics)

God's lightbulbs An eco-emporium for the faithful	Glenn Hurowitz	31 Aug 2007	Gristmill
Interfaith Power and Light, an organization dedicated to a 'religious response to global warming,' has just launched an online store, ShopIPL.org, where religious institutions, people of faith, and freeloading atheists can go to buy energy-efficient lighting, solar cookers, and other environmentally friendly gizmos for house and church alike.It's creation care in action. I learned about this through my sister-in-law Allison Fisher, who works for the Greater Washington ...
Topics: business, green living, green products, greenish companies, Religion and Spirituality (all these topics)

15 Green Religious Leaders		24 Jul 2007	Main Dish
These men and women represent many different religions, but they're all spreading the eco-gospel. Read about them, then tell us which spiritual leaders have inspired you to greener heights in the comments section at the bottom of the page. Photo: Nikolaos Manginas Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I "Crime against the natural world is a sin," says Bartholomew I, leader of more than 300 million Orthodox Christians worldwide. "The Green Patriar ...
Topics: lists, religion and spirituality (all these topics)

Welcome Back, Kosher Popularity of 'eco-kosher' diet growing in U.S.		10 Jul 2007	Daily Grist
Welcome Back, Kosher Popularity of "eco-kosher" diet growing in U.S. Eco-food awareness has undeniably seeped into the mainstream, and religious communities are no exception. More and more, a low-impact diet is seen not just as a matter of health or ethics, but as a spiritual obligation. As evidence, look no further than the quickly growing "eco-kosher" mo ...
Topics: food, green living, local food, news, organic food, religion and spirituality (all these topics)

E.O. Wilson on Bill Moyers Journal this week Check it out	Kate Sheppard	05 Jul 2007	Gristmill
On Friday, Bill Moyers profiles E.O. Wilson on the latest edition of 'Bill Moyers Journal.' (The show is his new spot on PBS that started airing in late April, and happens to have the same name as his old show that stopped running in 1981.) Moyers talks to Wilson about subjects ranging from his work cataloging every living creature on earth to religion to his vision for facing climate change. Check out a preview: The show also includes an update on the work of th ...
Topics: biodiversity, environmental justice, environmental movement, green living, messaging, religion and spirituality, TV (all these topics)

Warren Piece Warren G. Stone, green religious leader, answers readers' questions		01 Jun 2007	InterActivist
Clearly, caring for the planet is a valid expression of faith, whether Jew, Christian, Buddhist, or whatever. However, there is a huge organization of right-wing Christians dedicated to interfering with our political process. Where do you draw the line in the separation of church and state, and when is it reasonable for religious leaders to use their authority to influence others' political views or deci ...
Topics: InterActivist, interview, religion and spirituality (all these topics)

Stone on a Roll Warren G. Stone, green religious leader, answers Grist's questions		28 May 2007	InterActivist
Warren G. Stone. What work do you do? I'm a rabbi in the Washington, D.C., area; I've been privileged to serve as the rabbi of Temple Emanuel for the past 18 years. I also serve as the national environmental chair for the Central Conference of American Rabbis and am on a variety of boards, including as co-chair of the Religious Campaign for Forest Conservation and the Religious Coalition on Creation Ca ...
Topics: InterActivist, interview, religion and spirituality (all these topics)

A little hope for a change: The promises of religious environmentalism A guest essay	David Roberts	25 May 2007	Gristmill
The following is a guest essay from Roger S. Gottlieb, Professor of philosophy at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. His books include A Greener Faith: Religious Environmentalism and our Planet's Future and This Sacred Earth: Religion, Nature, Environment. ----- If you're not depressed, a friend of mine has been saying, it's only because you haven't been reading the newspaper. And indeed we live in a frightening time of fundamentalist violence, aggressive wars, et ...
Topics: environmental movement, religion and spirituality (all these topics)

Noah's ark rebuilt A not-so-subtle call for climate change attention	Maywa Montenegro	23 May 2007	Gristmill
At the base of snow-capped Mount Ararat, where the bible says Noah's ark came to rest after 40 days of flooding, environmentalist volunteers are constructing a miniature version of the famed zoological craft. Its completion is being timed to coincide with next month's G8 summit in Germany, where climate change will be a hot issue. Last week, for instance, scientists from all across Africa plus Brazil, India, China, Mexico, and South Africa presented joint statement ...
Topics: Angela Merkel, climate, climate change mitigation, energy, energy efficiency, G8, green living, religion and spirituality (all these topics)

For the Love of ... You Know Religious leaders urge Congress, Bush to act on climate change		22 May 2007	Daily Grist
For the Love of ... You Know Religious leaders urge Congress, Bush to act on climate change After millennia of mistrust and conflict, the world's religions might be united by ... climate change? In an open letter published today in two Capitol Hill newspapers, the leaders of more than 20 religious groups urged Congress and President Bush to act on the issue. "Global warming is real, it is human-induced, and we ...
Topics: climate, news, religion and spirituality (all these topics)

A biblical view of climate change and the death of Jerry Falwell Quoting some scripture	Ken Ward	16 May 2007	Gristmill
It seems appropriate that we consider the death of Jerry Falwell in the spirit by which he lived -- on a "higher level ... the Biblical perspective" -- and take a peek into what the Bible has to say about climate change as well.Reverend Falwell retained an unshakable faith in Biblical inerrancy, while demonstrating a remarkably supple ability to revise his own interpretation of presumably self-evident, literal truths. Falwell applied the theology of Biblical one ...
Topics: climate, environmental movement, green living, religion and spirituality (all these topics)

'Working less, wanting less, spending less' Green the Pope way	David Roberts	15 May 2007	Gristmill
That's the Vatican's green vision.
Topics: environmental movement, green living, religion and spirituality (all these topics)

Jerry Falwell dead We shed a tear	David Roberts	15 May 2007	Gristmill
Fundamentalist Christian minister Jerry Falwell is dead at 73. It's probably churlish to use the occasion of someone's death to point out that said person was a paranoid, avaricious, hate-spewing enabler of America's basest lizard-brain impulses, so I won't go there. I will, however, note that one of the proudest moments of my young career was being cited by name in the course of a rambling, delusional Falwell sermon on global warming, which apparently is 'Satan's Att ...
Topics: climate, green living, religion and spirituality, shameless self-promotion (all these topics)

Senior Moments On class gifts, again	Umbra Fisk	09 May 2007	Ask Umbra
Dear Umbra, My class also wants to give a greener gift when we graduate in 2008. We are starting to plan, and though your suggestion of solar power is awesome and very true, that will not be possible at my Seventh-Day Adventist school. We did not receive permission to do anything like that. Is there anything else that we might do to inspire our campus to become green? Heather Pfeifle Berrien Springs, Mich. Dearest Heather, I'm torn ...
Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, education, green living, religion and spirituality (all these topics)

Gore reaches fame of Biblical proportions Uh, literally	Kate Sheppard	03 May 2007	Gristmill
An Inconvenient Truth replaces the Gideon Bible in fancy new hotel. Dirt-worshiping hippies rejoice.
Topics: Al Gore, An Inconvenient Truth, climate, green living, movies, religion and spirituality, travel (all these topics)

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