This year, the Climate Stewardship Summit will have a dual focus – engaging youth and young adults on the urgency of climate change, while providing the larger religious community with the tools and education to deepen their commitment to caring for our planet.
The largest gathering of indigenous nations in modern history have come by the hundreds to protest the Dakota Access Pipeline, which will run close to the Standing Rock Sioux reservation, compromising drinking water and disrupting sacred burial sites. Please join us for a protest in New Haven on Thursday, October 20 at 4:30 at Wells Fargo, 205 Church Street, New Haven and stand with Standing Rock!
Father Sam Fuller, IREJN Board member, calls for the city of Concord and its residents to show some “Yankee ingenuity” to create clean, renewable energy for the city.
The efforst to halt the Spectra AIM pipeline were bolstered this week when both New York Senators, Senator Schumer and Senator Gillibrand, called for the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to halt construction of the pipeline. Please call CT Senator Murphy and Senator Blumenthal and urge them to join Senators Schumer and Gillibrand.
Niagara Bottling Company has negotiated a disturbing deal with the Town of Bloomfield to sell public water for profit, even during droughts and water shortages. Please read on to learn more about what you can do to stop the sale of public water for private property.
Patrick Cage, a former intern for the Massachusettes United Church of Christ Conference, attended the Paris Conference this past year. He is currently traveling on a speaking tour, sharing his thoughts on how we can implement the Paris agreement.
Lynn Johnson, founder and director of the Center for Serenity, invites you to the 20th Anniversary for the Center for Serenity and the 15th presentation of the Center for Serenity Award on Saturday, April 2 at 3:00 PM at First Baptist Church, 90 North Main Street, West Hartford.
Former IREJN Executive Director Terri Eickel will be honored with the Center for Serenity’s 2016 Serenity Award on Saturday, April 2 at First Baptist Church of West Hartford. Proceeds will benefit IREJN and Pastor Chuck Redfern, a former IREJN Board member who is currently battling cancer for the third time.
Artificial crumb rubber turf is commonly used on public school fields, as well as municipal parks. However, there is growing concern over the chemicals in crumb rubber and the danger they present to the children who play sports and other activities on them.
On July 1, 2015, the CT State Legislature passed groundbreaking legislation to completely phase out plastic microbeads from cosmetic products within three years. Read what toxics organizer Susan Eastwood had to say in the CT Mirror.
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