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.
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.
On June 30, over 600 people gathered at the United Nations to hear Cardinal Turkson, the President of the Ponifical Academy of Peace and Justice, present the Pope’s encyclical on the moral call to care for the planet. Read on to hear Mary Evelyn Tucker and John Grim’s report on the fascinating and inspiring evening in New York City.
On May 31, IREJN presented the CT Climate March with our friends at 350CT, the Sierra Club, and the CT Coalition for Environmental Justice. Over 600 people came out to march for climate justice! The March ended at the Hartford Earth Festival, where people listened to great music, ate tasty local food, and got involved with some of the greatest environmental organizations in CT!
Need a lesson plan for the Preach-In on Global Warming? Here is one developed by Terri Eickel, IREJN’s Executive Director. It was hugely successful in October and appropriate for all ages!
We just can’t handle the deliciousness and climate-friendliness of these five new recipes. Make sure to check out the rest of our fantastic recipes in our Climate Kitchen!
I know what you are thinking. IREJN is posting a recipe for grilled vegetables? Who doesn’t know how to grill some vegetables? Answer: YOU, because you don’t have the recipe for my awesome marinade. But now you do. YOU’RE WELCOME.
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