Caring for Creation

Becky Showalter Last week, we talked about what environmental footprints* and carbon footprints are. This week we are going to concentrate on how you calculate your carbon footprint? Here’s what you’ll need for a basic estimate – annual electricity and gas bills (average monthly usage) and vehicle(s) annual mileage and average mpg for your vehicle(s). Not so hard! Got to www.haitireforest.org/calculator and calculate […]

Becky Showalter The words “Carbon Footprint” and “Environmental Footprint” are thrown around almost interchangeably these days in news articles and discussions, but what do they actually mean and how do they relate to each one of us?  Bottom line, they are slightly different ways to frame how lightly (or heavily) we are living on our

End of the Year Note from the Executive Director, Michael Anello: Folks, I am astonished! I called the Haitian Embassy in DC to schedule a January meeting about our reforestation work. The receptionist on the phone was fun to speak with, and we chatted in Creole. To explain my eagerness for a meeting, I told

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 air.2 To be most effective NbS must include strategies for protecting and

This time of Spring always reminds us of new beginnings with the flowers blooming, trees budding and our grass a hue of Emerald Green.  It also garners in a very busy time for the Church with Holy Week.  It many ways we have a heavy heart as we ponder the pain and anguish Jesus was

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 ‘on earth as in heaven.’ ” Further, Wright says, “we are called to build

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 greater. To date the highest priority approach of nations has been to

Even though about 70 percent of the Earth’s surface is covered by water, less than 1 percent is available for human use. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) says that the finite sources of water are being diverted, depleted , and polluted so fast that by 2025, two thirds of the world’s population will be

A CATECHISM OF CREATION, an Episcopal Understanding was prepared for study in congregations by The Committee on Science, Technology and Faith of The Executive Council, The Episcopal Church in the United States of America. The objective was to “help Episcopalians become better informed about fundamental elements of both Christian faith and modern science. It serves