Churches Go Green by Shedding Fossil Fuel Holdings
This New York Times article highlights what some churches are doing to cut their ties to fossil fuel.
This New York Times article highlights what some churches are doing to cut their ties to fossil fuel.
This article has the following quote from Rev. Hendrik Grape from the World Council of Churches at an international divestment conference: "...if it is wrong to wreck the climate, it is wrong to...
If interested, here's another church calling for divestment.
http://fprespa.org/cpt_news/council-approves-overture-to-general-assembly-2014-on-fossil-fuel-divestment/
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More churches calling for divestment from fossil fuel
http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2013/06/29/more-churches-calling-for-divestment-from-fossil-fuel/eTPVtIhiibeS54e3fa5FRI/story.html
John -- I thought there was still a significant portion that is still going to be surface mined? (1/3? Maybe I'm wrong.) In my opinion it's more than a little drastic even if it is going to be...
A prominent evangelical supports divestment from fossil fuels:
Fossil fuels are a faith issue -- by Richard Cizik
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/on-faith/wp/2013/06/28/fossil-...
Hi John -- I agree that getting oil from Canada is a far better choice than the Middle East but I don't think we should be industrially strip mining the Alberta landscape to get the oil to supply...
John -- There are opportunities, a big one one being reducing the billions of dollars we as North Americans send to the volatile Middle East by importing so much oil....
(Here's a fun...
Is profiting from pollution ethical?
Local church pushes fossil fuels divestment
Prodded by environmentally conscious church members in Southwest Portland, the Oregon Synod...