Northeast Environmental Events for People of Faith

A Retreat at Mercy Center, Madison, CT
April 4-6, 2008
GETTING OUTDOORS: A PLACE FOR FOLKS IN THE NATURAL WORLD
(Limited to 15 participants) What draws us outdoors, calls to us, makes us feel we have a home in the natural world? We will worship together, indoors and out, and glory in the wonder of this pretty blue planet. Botanists, geologists, poets, guitar-players, animal-lovers, strollers, and sitters – all are welcome. Program description and registration form

Woolman Retreats
Click here for a list of retreats at the Woolman Conference Center (maintained by the Society of Friends/Quakers)
Interfaith Power and Light is a religious response to global warming with chapters in 25 states and Greater Washington, D.C. Find a link to your local chapter at http://www.theregenerationproject.org/State.
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Earth On Stone on Earth

If you going to be in the D.C. area, check out this very cool installation, an exhibit of planted sculpture - in part to elicit the spiritual nature of environment, and part diagrammatic interpretations of green roofs. The exhibit includes works by writers buried in Golden Gate Recreation Area and Prospect Park, and a discussion on social environmental action with a variety of academic, spiritual and community leaders, including Rabbi Warren Stone, and Pastor Marvin Tollefson, whose Christ Lutheran congregation hosts monthly discussions coordinated by Greater Washington DC Interfaith Power and Light.
AUGUST 5-30, 2007 916 G St NW, Washington DC 20001

More information can be found at http://www.earthonstone.org/and exhibit photos and film will be online on August 5th.

Interfaith Power and Light is a religious response to global warming with chapters in 22 states and Greater Washington, D.C. Find a link to your local chapter at http://www.theregenerationproject.org/State.htm

Save the Whales

According to the ContraCosta Times, After 11 days of trying to steer two whales back to the ocean, those overseeing the attempted rescue of a female humpback whale and her calf are taking suggestions from the public.
Readers are invited to weigh in with their ideas -- as well as questions and comments -- by emailing sacramento.whales@noaa.gov.
Updates on the operation will be posted on the Web site www.incidentnews.gov. Click on the link "Wayward Humpback Whales, Sacramento River, CA" to read the latest updates.

Asked why officials don't simply leave the whales alone and let nature take its course, [Frances] Gulland [director of veterinary sciences with the Marine Mammal Center in Sausalito] said that wasn't an option given that one aspect of their predicament -- their injuries -- were caused by humans.
"We have some obligation to compensate for what we've done," she said.

IREJN is Connecticut's Interfaith Power and Light. Visit us at www.irejn.org.

A Scientist Appeals to Pastors

In his latest book, ''The Creation, An Appeal to Save Life on Earth,'' scientist and Pulitzer Prize-winning author E. O. Wilson appeals to Christian believers in hopes of saving the Earth from where he sees it heading--toward the biggest mass extinction since the dinosaurs.

''Pastor, we need your help. The Creation -- living Nature -- is in deep trouble,'' Wilson writes in this letter to an imaginary Southern Baptist pastor. ''You might well ask at this point, Why me? Because religion and science are the two most powerful forces in the world today.''

Read the whole article at http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Religion-Today.html?_r=1&oref=slogin