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Help Our Friends' Garden |
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Our friends at A Rocha have been selected as a finalist for a community garden award. They need your votes to secure $4,000 and publicity for their tremendous community gardens in Lynden, Washington.
Five Loaves Farm, a project of A Rocha, runs two food bank gardens (8,000 lbs. of produce last year) and has helped organize four additional gardens that produce for 60 families and the local farmer's market.
Help them out by casting your vote. You can vote daily between now and August 6th.
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Boost Your Campus Recycling Efforts |
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Lack of awareness about recycling on campus remains one of the biggest barriers to increasing recycling participation.
This webinar will provide you with successful communications strategies and specific ideas you can use to improve and enhance your campus and community recycling programs.
College & University Recycling Coalition: 2012 Webinar Series
Recycling Education and Awareness: Tools, Tips and Ideas for Campus and Community Outreach
Thursday, May 10 at 1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
Space is limited. Register now.
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Earth Day in DC Wrap-Up |
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Washington, D.C. played host to a number of Earth Day 2012 activities and many students joined Renewal in the celebrations. Students came from Houghton College (NY), Messiah College (PA), Eastern University (PA), Waynesburg University (PA), Trevecca Nazarene University (TN) and Dallas Baptist University (TX).
Sunday morning, students gathered for worship at the National Cathedral. Dr. Matthew Sleeth, executive director of Blessed Earth, delivered the sermon, Are Christians Blessing or Cursing the Earth - A Call to Action. Students also witnessed the launching of the Seminary Stewardship Alliance and a forum with Dr. Sleeth and esteemed author, poet and farmer, Wendell Berry.
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Students worshipping at the National Cathedral.
Students gathered on Monday morning at the White House, where they met with Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) officials, the executive director of the White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnership and the President's deputy assistant for energy and climate change.
Joshua DuBois, Executive Director of the White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships,
and Houghton College students.
During the White Hosue briefing, students joined other faith leaders in unveiling the Green the Golden Rule Quilt. The quilt, which is the shape of the United States, was made from donated and recycled clothing from across the country. Renewal and other organizers plan to take the quilt to various college campuses in the coming year with the "Green the Golden Rule" message.
Students help unveil the Green the Golden Rule Quilt.
Renewal Coordinator, Tyler Amy, and the Green the Golden Rule Quilt.
If you are interested in having the quilt come to your college, send an email to
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All photos are taken by Chris Elisara.
Additional media coverage:
Think Progress:
Religious Youth To Obama: 'Creation Care Is A Swing Vote For Many Evangelicals'
Sojourners:
White House Earth Day Briefing Offers Hope, Reminds Us There Is Still Much To Do
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No Drill Kaikoura |
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Renewal's partner organization, the Creation Care Study Program, has a campus in the beautiful New Zealand town of Kaikoura. Right now, Kaikoura is faced with the impending threat of offshore oil drilling.
THIS SITUATION IS URGENT!
Bidding for the oil drilling opens on Friday, April 27th.
Our other partner organization, Restoring Eden, has compiled resources and described why this offshore oil drilling poses a threat to the people (economic and public health), animals and entire ecosystems of New Zealand.
Listed on the site are several ways you can get involved, including writing letters, sending emails, signing petitions and joining Facebook groups.
Check out Restoring Eden's website for information on how you can make your voice heard.
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Restoring Eden Health Surveys a Big Success |
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Our partner organization, Restoring Eden, recently took college students to the hills and hollows of Kentucky for spring break. Their goal was to go door-to-door gathering health surveys in order to determine the effect mountain-top removal coal mining has on community health. They gathered more than 970 health surveys, shared stories with many Kentuckians and even danced to some local bluegrass music.
Now community health researchers at West Virginia Univeristy will analyze the data, have it peer-reviewed and maybe even publish it in the Journal of Community Health.
Not bad for a spring break trip.
Way to go Restoring Eden! |
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