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COMING EVENTS!
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8th Annual Charles River Cleanup
Saturday, April 21 9am-12 noon
Join
over 1,000 volunteers helping to make the Charles River healthier and more
beautiful. www.charlesriver.org
Sunday, April 22- EARTH DAY!
This promises to be the biggest Earth Day ever! For general info, click here.
MIP&L will be joining the Earth Day Fair at the Unitarian Universalist church in Haverhill. Noon. UU Church, Haverhill
SAVE the DATE!
Sunday, May 6, MIP&L's annual forum- on the North Shore this year! Location to be announced
On TV this month:
Tues., April 17: Robert Redford presents "The Green"- on 13 consecutive Tuesday nights. The Green
Sat., April 21, 9pm "Green- the New Red, White & Blue" on The Discovery Channel
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MIP&L NEWS Briefs
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From the South Shore:
What
does your carbon footprint look like? One ton of carbon dioxide is hard to visualize. But a group of 9th graders from Cohasset High
School gets the picture- and have built a 27-foot high "CO2 Cube" to
make their point! The CO2 Cube powerfully illustrates the average
amount of carbon dioxide every one of us emits into the atmosphere every two days! Read the story.
From Central Mass:
Great
energy at the March 20 Interfaith Climate Walk event in Worcester, at
Temple Emanuel! Organized by environmental activist (and Temple Emanuel
member) Margot Barnet, speakers included Rev. Fred Small (of Religious
Witness for the Earth, and one of the Walk organizers)...and
MIP&L's Lara Hoke, who described the results of the MIP&L
energy audit at her home church (the UU Church of Worcester).
Representatives from MIP&L member congregations UU Church of
Worcester, First Unitarian Church (Worcester), United Congregational
Church (Worcester), and All Saints Church (Worcester) were also
present. Other speakers were State Senators Ed Augustus and Harriett
Chandler.
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March 20th Interfaith Walk for Climate Rescue Culminates at Copley Square
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Thanks for the photos,
Mark Larson!
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April 2- Massachusetts Interfaith Power & Light at the State House
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MIP&L's Co-Founder and Chief Evangelical Officer Steve MacAusland,
together with MIP&L's Mark Larson, appeared before the Senate Committee on Telecommunications, Utiities and Energy on April 2- urging lawmakers to take a hard look at the pros and cons of House Speaker Sal DiMasi's proposed energy bill, H-3965. (read bill here)
After submitting MIPL's written testimony (entire text here) to the panel, Steve departed from the fact-crunching oral testimony given by others to say,
"If Moses were here to today, he would probably come down from the mountain with two new commandments... If it Ain't Broke, Don't Fix it, and Pay Attention to the Elephant in the Middle of the Room." He went on to say that the Inter governmental Panel on Climate Change has strongly suggested that global emissions of greenhouse gasses be cut by eighty percent as soon as possible. "That is our challenge here today."
MacAusland also held up a CFL (compact flourescent light bulb) as a new symbol behind and under which the community of faith is uniting to practice what it preaches. "By saving eighty percent on our lighting costs, not only are we saving money, but we are saving energy and reducing our greenhouse gas emissions by eighty percent as well. By spending pennies of those savings on green electricity we can plug into the sun and the wind and save the planet at the same time."
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Contact us
with your questions, ideas, success stories...horror
stories/photos...and/or calls for help!
Remember: Wherever you are in
your environmental stewardship journey, we've been there-
and can help
light the way (with CFLs, of course!).
Begin that journey today, here.
Most importantly, thank you for everything you and your faith community are doing- and will do- to care for creation.
Because... IF WE DON'T, WHO WILL?
In faith,
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Massachusetts Interfaith Power & Light
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