Service Team Meeting
Greetings to you all, and prayers that your week is going well. I look forward to seeing you in a week- Next Tuesday, January 26th, at 7:00 p.m., the IEN Service Team will meet again. This meeting is for all of us who seek to promote the stewardship of creation as people of faith in a hands-on way, so feel free to invite others! Our main focus will be on the fast approaching Earth Day, and how we would like to meet it. We'll discuss how faith communities are planning to observe it, how we might get involved with them or organize our own group project, and, of course, continue brainstorming how we want to move forward as we develop our team.
Our meeting will be at St. David's Episcopal Church downtown (http://stdave.org/). Go north on Trinity between 7th and 8th Streets and turn left into the parking garage. Get a ticket at the gate - you'll be able to pick up a voucher at the receptionist desk for free parking. Take the elevator to level 2 to enter the church. We'll meet in room Crail A (http://stdave.org/site/sitewide/cat/calendar/).
Pastor Wynn Stenftenagel Interim Steering Committe Interfaith Environmental Network
New Online Petition Supports City Climate Protection Plan
Most of you have probably heard about Austin's "Climate Protection Program" -- which was a proactive response to 2007's global warming scare.
IEN steering committee member Chris Searles has co-created a citizen petition with Jake Stewart (former manager of Austin's Climate Protection Program) that lets Austin's new City Council know we support reclaiming the program's unique goal: "to make Austin the leading city in the nation in the fight against climate change."
Please consider checking out the petition, http://www.tinyurl.com/austinclimateprotection/ and consider signing. We're about 44 signatures away from a 500 signature goal!
IEN steering committee member Chris Searles has co-created a citizen petition with Jake Stewart (former manager of Austin's Climate Protection Program) that lets Austin's new City Council know we support reclaiming the program's unique goal: "to make Austin the leading city in the nation in the fight against climate change."
Please consider checking out the petition, http://www.tinyurl.com/austinclimateprotection/ and consider signing. We're about 44 signatures away from a 500 signature goal!
Pope Critical Of Copenhagen
January 21,2010 04:04 PM Filed in: Climate
IEN Interim Steering Committee member Chris Searles brings to our attention this article from cnbc.com on Pope Benedict’s frustration with the lack of substantive progress at the Copenhagen Climate talks. Seems the Pope is determined to make Creation stewardship a hallmark of his papacy.
IEN Is On The Move
January 19,2010 07:45 AM Filed in: IEN
IEN Interim Steering Committee member Chris Searles (1st Baptist Church) got us this neat mention on the Austin Post web site. Have a look!
Good job, Chris!
Good job, Chris!