There are currently no national limits on the industrial carbon pollution coming from sources like power plants. The EPA is working to safeguard our health by reducing this carbon pollution and lessening the impact of climate change. Fossil fuel burning power plants currently emit more than two billion tons of carbon pollution and other toxic…
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Ohioans for Sustainable Change has developed online carbon footprint calculators for congregations and for households. Congregations that complete the online carbon footprint survey by Dec. 31, 2008, will be eligible for $10,000 in prizes.
A three-part series of green sermons – contributed by Pastor Aaron Holley, Reynoldsburg United Methodist Church, Reynoldsburg, Ohio God Is Green Part 1: “It Was Very Good” Genesis 1:27-31 Job 38-40 Male emperor penguins can survive temperatures of minus 50 degrees celcius and winds up to 160 kmph The Bactrian camels endure 50 degree Celsius…
Details– contributed by the Rev. W. Stuart Ritter, Broad Street Presbyterian Church, Columbus, Ohio When people of faith pay attention to the Bible and the Holy Spirit, things happen. We can make a difference in the world. I’ve been saying that in a variety of ways since arriving here in November. I say it because…
Details– contributed by the Rev. Peter Faass, Christ Episcopal Church, Shaker Heights, Ohio Gen. 1:1-2:4; Canticle 13; 2 Corinth. 13:11-13; Matt. 28:16-20 Friday’s Business section of The Plain Dealer featured a top of the fold article titled, “Using gas as a sales gimmick: Marketers know giveaways will draw struggling drivers.” A large color photograph accompanied…
Details– contributed by the Rev. R. William Carroll, Rector, The Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd, Athens, Ohio In God, brothers and sisters, we live and move and have our being. GOD is the one who “holds our souls in life.” God is the ultimate context, the environment if you will, for all we are…
Details– contributed by the Rev. Sydney V. (Skip) Jackson, Indianola Presbyterian Church, Columbus, Ohio Texts: Psalm 19; Matthew 6:25-34 The heavens are telling the glory of God… — Psalm 19:1a Look to the birds of the air… consider the lilies… — Matthew 6:26, 28 Wendell Berry is one of my favorite poets. In his poem,…
Details– contributed by the Rev. Sydney V. (Skip) Jackson, Indianola Presbyterian Church, Columbus, Ohio [A kind of “Lessons & Carols” for Epiphany.] Texts: Gn. 1:1-4; Ps. 139:11-12; Jn. 1:1-5; Jn. 8:12; Mt. 5:14-15; Is. 42:5-7 Jesus spoke to them saying, “I am the light of the world.” – John 8:12 Jesus said, “You are the…
Details– contributed by the Rev. Susan Warrener Smith, Indianola Presbyterian Church, Columbus, Ohio Psalm 104 It’s hard not to resonate with this hymn of glory to God – God who set the earth on its foundations, in whose Wisdom all was made, and whose spirit is the breath of life. We all, I am sure,…
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