Faith leaders call for climate justice

 The Canadian Interfaith Call for Leadership and Action on Climate Change asks the Canadian federal government to take specific action against climate change at the UN conference in Durban, South Africa (COP17), Nov. 28 to Dec. 9.

Archbishop Fred Hiltz, Primate, has joined 25 other faith leaders in issuing their first united call for climate justice.

The Canadian statement has already been praised by the World Council of Churches (WCC) Programme Executive on Climate Change, Dr. Guillermo Kerber.

More about the Canadian Interfaith Call here

 Embassy - Canada's Foreign Policy Newspaper
 
Faith communities in Canada address climate change
‎

TIME OF FELLOWSHIP AND GOOD CHEER

SATURDAY NOVEMBER 26

2 PM TO 4 PM

At

THE HISTORICAL HERITAGE CHURCH

ST. JOHN THE EVANGELIST

23 Water Street North, Kitchener

[Located at the corner of Water and Duke Streets]

Parking at Kitchener city hall parking garage nearby

with free parking on the streets

Join the North Waterloo Region Branch of the Architectural Conservancy of Ontario and Greening Sacred Spaces for the ACO's annual Seasonal Celebration at St. John the Evangelist Church (winner of a Green Sacred Space 2011 award).

Learn about St. John's environmental programs, how heritage faith communities are using environmental technologies to keep their buildings energy-efficient, and what faith communities need to do to keep their heritage buildings viable and green!

St. John's and Stirling Avenue Mennonite Church will be awarded the 2011 Green Sacred Space Award at this event

Please RSVP to 519-578-7624 or jarndt@sympatico.ca or aco.nwrb@gmail.com

You are invited to bring a dessert or other contribution for the table

  A variety of beverages will be available .

Jane Snyder
Greening Sacred Spaces Waterloo/Wellington/Dufferin Regions
a project of Faith and the Common Good & Residential Energy Efficiency Project (REEP)

519-747-5139 *** jsnyder@faith-commongood.net *** www.greeningsacredspaces.net/waterloo - visit our new website today!  Resources!  Events!  Carbon calculators!

Green Home Workshops www.reepgreen.ca

Greening Sacred Spaces is funded by the Trillium Foundation of Ontario www.trilliumfoundation.org

Interfaith Call for Leadership and Action on climate Change

On Sunday October 23 to Monday October 24, faith leaders, politicians and church members gathered in Ottawa to engage in gatherings and dialogue on climate change. A letter was prepared by church leaders associated with the Canadian Council of Churches. This is the most proliferate interfaith call to date concerning climate change.

Call for Leadership and action

Anglican Action Plan to Advocate for Creation and against Climate Change

The Anglican Communion Environmental Network (ACEN) met on Aug. 4 to 10 in Lima, Peru. Canadian participant Revd. Ken Grey noted that "ACEN representatives from Argentina, Brazil, Madagascar and Peru described how deforestation and associated environmental degradation continue at a frightening and devastating rate, often at the expense of indigenous communities who have undertaken subsistence farming for centuries". After this meeting  Revd. Gray, chair of Greening Anglican Spaces of the Anglican Church of Canada, declared that "Creation is in crisis. Anglicans must act".

Not only did participants learn of on the ground degradation of the environment in South America but saw to it that a plan be put forth to deal with it. ACEN convener Bishop George Browning of the Anglican Church of Australia heralded a call to "scrutinise and transform our own relationship with God’s creation". ACEN says that by September 2011 they will have an action plan for worldwide Anglican environmental advocacy.

Read about it more here

Wildlands League asks Ontario Government to start land use planning in Northern Ontario 'Ring of Fire'

The Wildlands League and Noront Resources Ltd. are jointly requesting that the Ontario government start land use planning with First Nations communities located in the northern Ontario Ring of Fire.

"In a letter addressed to various government ministers, the public interest group Wildlands League and Canadian mining company Noront highlight the "urgent need" to develop and approve compressive land use plans that will protect First Nations' land while preventing delays and missteps for mining companies developing in the area.

"What First Nations communities need to see is the options available to them and the cost and benefits of those options," said Anna Baggio the director of conservation and land use planning at Wildlands League.

Land use agreements are part of the government's Far North Act, which aims to protect 50 per cent of Northern land (225,000 kilometres) from development while providing stability for mining companies exploring and developing in Northern Ontario. Baggio said land use agreements with First Nations communities and should have been implemented last fall when the Far North Act was initially passed.

See Ring of Fire update

Environment | Citizens for Public Justice

Environment | Citizens for Public Justice

Ocean Life Sustainability Report on Grocery Retailers

Three of seven grocery chains receive passing grade on the sustainability needs required for ocean life. Read about it here