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American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy presents excellent links to current green consumer resources. Called Back to the Well, www.calledbacktothewell.org Catholic Coalition for Climate Change, whose participants include a dozen national Catholic organizations including the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, launched The Catholic Climate Covenant: The St. Francis Pledge to Care for Creation and the Poor to encourage greater personal and shared engagement by the Catholic community to respond to the impacts of climate change. Cool Congregations: How Cool is Your Congregation? Take the Interfaith Power and Light Carbon Footprint Quiz! The Cool Cities campaign helps cities turn their commitments into action by pushing for smart energy solutions. All over America, communities are taking action to help solve global warming. From hybrid vehicle fleets in Charlotte, to green buildings in Austin, and homes powered with renewable energy in Seattle, local governments are moving forward with innovative energy solutions that curb global warming, save taxpayer dollars, and create healthier cities. The Dreaming New Mexico Initiative is an innovative experiment that uses the vehicle of Bioneers to bring about positive ecological and social transformation at the local and regional level. Earth Hour 2010 will take place on Saturday, March 27 from 8:30 pm to 9:30 pm, with many of the nation’s most iconic landmarks dimming their lights for one hour in what is expected to be the largest call for action on climate change in history. Gallup Solar is Collaborating with communities, elected representatives, utilities and industry to bring solar power to all peoples in our area. Gallup Solar envisions a flourishing and healthy environment that enables all communities to live in harmony with Creation. Green Energy New Mexico supports clean, pollution-free energy using Green Tags. Your purchase of Green Tags supports the replacement of traditional polluting energy technologies, including fossil fuel sources, with renewable sources like solar and wind power. Interfaith Power and Light is a religious response to global warming. Interfaith Works is a non-profit organization that partners with religious organizations to do good works by integrating environmental stewardship with community outreach. Their Sanctuary Exchange program supplies energy audits and funding towards building upgrades to congregations that use their buildings extensively and provide essential community outreach programs. Lightbulb exchange co-sponsored by Sierra Club and NM-IPL at the First Congregational Church in Albuquerque. Low Carbon Diet, by David Gershon. This “30 Day Program to Lose 5000 lbs” is a fun, accessible, easy to use guide that will show you, step-by-step, how to dramatically reduce your CO2 output in just a month’s time. National Interfaith Power and Light Regeneration Project is an interfaith ministry devoted to deepening the connection between ecology and faith. Our goal is to help people of faith recognize and fulfill their responsibility for the stewardship of creation. New Mexico Conference of Churches Our Children Our Future The Campaign for Our Children, Our Future is working to protect the health and wellbeing of our children by promoting the solutions to global warming. We support common sense solutions including high performance buildings, clean cars, and solar and wind power. We also are working for responsible reductions in emissions that will slow, stop, and reverse global warming. Partnership for Earth Spirituality is a non-profit membership organization which brings together people from various religious traditions, ages, cultures and economic backgrounds to promote a better understanding of the interdependence of ecology and spirituality. The Partnership's vision is explored through retreats, forums, seasonal rituals, wilderness experiences, programs for children, hands-on projects and education for sound environmental policies. Project 350 is an international grassroots campaign that aims to mobilize a global climate movement united by a common call to action. By spreading an understanding of the science and a common vision for fair policy, we will ensure that the world will create bold and equitable solutions to the climate crisis. 350.org is an independent and not-for-profit project. The Regeneration Project is an interfaith ministry devoted to deepening the connection between ecology and faith. Our goal is to help people of faith recognize and fulfill their responsibility for the stewardship of creation. We do this through educational programs for clergy and congregations that achieve tangible environmental results and impact public policy. Rocky Mountain Institute provides 2 articles on the viability of nuclear energy as an alternative to coal. www.rmi.org/sitepages/pid257.php and www.rmi.org/sitepages/pid467.php ShopIPL.org is an online energy efficiency store for faith communities and their members sponsored by Interfaith Power & Light. For a 10% discount enter the code shopIPL. The SolveClimate.com blog is a useful website to keep up on all things global warming related. You can subscribe to the RSS feed to get it automatically.The latest draft of the US Climate Change Science Program report on US impacts is now available. The final version will be out this spring and should make headlines for a few days. The thing you might find most useful in this draft is that you can download the impacts report to just your region of the US. Why Catholics Care for Creation, By Joan M. Brown, OSF, Catholic Update for St. Anthony Messenger Press World Clock: keep track of current population, energy use, other global statistics. RESOURCES for Faith Communities Earth Day Liturgy helps: Lenten series packet — try a carbon fast for Lent. Download the packet. Ashes to Ashes – A Meditation, by Rev. Elizabeth Lyman. Download the pdf. Setting the Record Straight—responses to common challenges to climate science (6 page download) RESOURCES for Earth Sermons www.theregenerationproject.org/resources.htm
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