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Leasing Solar Power for Faith Communities

Leasing Solar Power for Faith Communities

Gary K. Smith, Community Church of Christ, and Co-chair, Energy Working Group, NC Interfaith Power & Light The 2017 NC energy law provided for two exciting things relevant to solar power and faith communities.  These things are (i) a substantial purchase price rebate and (ii) 

Nature-based Solutions for Climate Change and Biodiversity Decline

Nature-based Solutions for Climate Change and Biodiversity Decline

Carl Sigel As the risk from dangerous climate change continues to rise, along with the realization that nations will find it difficult to achieve necessary greenhouse gas emission reductions, nature-based solutions (NbS) 1 are being emphasized as a means to remove carbon dioxide from the 

RESTORING GOD’S EARTH: A YEAR OF PERSONAL ACTION

RESTORING GOD’S EARTH: A YEAR OF PERSONAL ACTION

  By: Carl Sigel Anglican theologian and biblical scholar, N. T. Wright, in his recent essay, Jesus is Coming – Plant a Tree! said that, “for early Christians, the resurrection of Jesus launched God’s new creation upon the world,” … and “God’s kingdom would come 

Waste Not: Moving Your Congregation Toward Zero Waste

Waste Not: Moving Your Congregation Toward Zero Waste

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Negative Emission Technologies: Our Pathway to a More Hopeful Future?

Negative Emission Technologies: Our Pathway to a More Hopeful Future?

Carl Sigel A report issued on October 8, 2018 by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) gave the world a wake-up call. With greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions climbing and climate impacts becoming increasingly more severe, the urgency to address climate change has never been 

Reality, Grief, Hope: Three Urgent Prophetic Tasks to the Environmental Crisis

Reality, Grief, Hope: Three Urgent Prophetic Tasks to the Environmental Crisis

Pastor Nancy Petty In our kitchen, sitting on the chopping block beside the sink, sits an old white antique soup tureen that Karla purchased at a flea market. For a number of years now, this eight-inch by eleven-inch tureen, has kicked into overdrive my obsessive-compulsive