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Sending a Clean Air Message During The Olympic Games
Members of the Clean Air Defense Campaign in Ohio (including OhIPL) delivered "The Five Rings of Clean Air Protection" to the offices of Senator Brown and Senator Portman.
Click here for the messages that were delivered from the various organizations!
Send your own faith message to Senator Brown and Senator Portman about the importance ensuring protections for Clean Air. Let them hear from the faith community! Click below to send a message on-line!
Senator Portman's on-line comments
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Keep It Cool!
Interfaith Power and Light's Cool congregations and Green Teams can "Keep It Cool" this summer by planning a congregational "Keep It Cool" event that focuses on climate change and the Clean Air Act. Follow these simple steps to bring the message to members of your congregation during the hot, August days of summer:.
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Plan a lemonade or ice cream stand to follow worship or a congregational activity.
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Share information about climate change and/or the Clean Air Act
Click here to download a FACT Sheet about Climate Change and Ohio
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Share coloring pages for the children (Click here for some pages developed in Hamilton County, Ohio)
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Use bulletin inserts and/or postcards developed by Interfaith Power and Light about Clean Air! Bulletin insert: Here Postcard: Here
Remember to take a picture of your "Keep It Cool" event and email it to us at ohipl@ohipl.org so we can share it on our Facebook page!
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Updates On Our Website at www.ohipl.org
If you haven't visited our website recently, we have a couple of new posts you might want to check out:
Review recent Religious Climate Change Statements Click Here.
Read the article in the Cleveland Plain Dealer about the new solar panels at First Unitarian Church of Cleveland. Click Here.
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News Updates! Scientists are concerned about rising sea levels due to melting ice in the north. The Arctic had the largest sea ice loss on record for June, scientists reported this week, and Northern Greenland and Canada are warming five times faster than the average global temperature. Click here for article.
Quote: This month, scientists issued a new study concluding that global warming has dramatically increased the likelihood of severe heat and drought - days after a heat wave across the Plains and Midwest broke records that had stood since the Dust Bowl, threatening this year's harvest. You want a big number? In the course of this month, a quadrillion kernels of corn need to pollinate across the grain belt, something they can't do if temperatures remain off the charts. Just like us, our crops are adapted to the Holocene, the 11,000-year period of climatic stability we're now leaving... in the dust. from "Global Warming's Terrifying New Math" by Bill McKibben. Published in August 2, 2012 issue of Rolling Stone |
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In Defense of Clean Air
Ohio's Clean Air Defense Campaign has been busy this summer ensuring that EPA rules to protect our environment are supported. Thank you for your help: as of Friday, July 13th, 205,323 of the comments in support of the Industrial Carbon Pollution Standard have come from Ohio!
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Thanks for "Liking" Us!
The national Interfaith Power and Light program is quickly building their Facebook network. They now have over 3,000 "Likes"! Click here to go to the national IPL Facebook page and "Like them"!
While you're at it, have you joined the Ohio Interfaith Power and Light Facebook community? Click here to go OHIO Interfaith Power and Light's Facebook page. You'll can follow our news through pictures and comments. "Like Us!" It's a great way to stay up to date with Ohio's programs and activities. "Like" us, and we can continue to build the network of passionate, faithful persons committed to addressing climate change.
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Send us your good news!If you have news, information or resources to share, please drop us a line at ohipl@ohipl.org, or visit our web site at http://www.ohipl.org/. Please let us know if you have any questions or suggestions!
Sincerely,
Greg Hitzhusen, Board Chair
Ohio Interfaith Power and Light |
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