Congregations in the News
The following are recent press reports of environmental stewardship work in Ohio faith communities. We have just begun to compile this list, so please send along any articles to add!
Dayton Church Goes Green (August 25, 2010, ONNtv.com) - click "video" icon below story headline, or click HD video option in right-hand column, to see video/television coverage. Print coverage here.
Archdiocese Invests In Green Movement (Cincinnati Enquirer, July 20, 2010)
Nun Marries Science, Spirituality (Cincinnati Enquirer, July 12, 2010); All Life is Sacred and Connected: Sr. Paula Gonzalez, SC (Sister Julie, A Nun's Life MInistry, July 12, 2010)
A Religious Response to Energy Efficiency: Ohio Interfaith Power and Light (Tony Bidinger, Green Energy Ohio News Magazine, Vol. 3, Iss. 2, June 2010)
First English Lutheran sanctuary cfl-change-out (Date, Columbus Dispatch)
Columbus Dispatch: Synagogue to hand out 4,000 low-energy bulbs (December 11, 2009, Meredith Heagney)
Columbus Dispatch: Churches Follow Bible of Green: Stewardship, meager finances made them early energy savers (August 7, 2009)
Episcopal Diocese of Southern Ohio launches green initiatives (May 2009, Interchange)
National Catholic Reporter: Archbishop Pilarczyk of Cincinnati endorses the Catholic Climate Covenant St. Francis Pledge to Care for Creation and the Poor. NCR story. Pilarczyk endorsement letter.
Episcopal Diocese of Southern Ohio: April 2009 Special Going Green Edition of Interchange - multiple articles
Energy and Commerce news: Testimony of Callon Holloway, Bishop of the Southern Ohio Synod for the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), before the Energy & Commerce Subcommittee on Energy & Environment (March 25, 2009)
GEO News Magazine: Ohio Interfaith Power and Light at Southwest CEN Meeting (March 2009, p.12)
Episcopal Life Online: Diocese of Ohio launches successful campaign: "How Many Lightbulbs Does it Take to Change an Episcopalian?" (August 15, 2008)
Family Perspectives Journal (National Association of Catholic Family Life Ministers) article by Sr. Leanne Jablonski of the Marianist Environmental Education Center, Dayton: Environmental Stewardship: First the Facts (Fall 2008)
Catholic Times (Diocese of Columbus) Special Issue: The Church Answers the Call to Protect the Earth (July 2008) - multiple articles
Builders Exchange Magazine: Wooster Unitarian Universalist Church becomes nation's first LEED Gold certified religious building (2007) Wooster UU Church Report Card
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