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CEAP Community Segment: Faith Groups

 

CEAP liasion for this segment:  Bill Cutler

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Peninsula/SouthBay Working Group

California Interfaith Power & Light

 

 California Interfaith Power and Light (CIPL) is galvanizing a religious response to global warming as the moral issue of our time. All major faith traditions call us to be good stewards of the earth, therefore we must work together to address the grave threat to humanity and all of Creation posed by global warming. Since our founding in 2001, we have mobilized religious support for landmark legislation to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in California, educated hundreds of thousands of congregants, and worked with every major religious denomination in the state. CIPL member congregations are leading by example, reducing CO2 emissions in our own houses of worship by over 20 million pounds.  Over 460 congregations of many diverse faith traditions are members of CIPL

 

Video highlights of the Oct. 28, 2007 Midpeninsula Interfaith Convocation on Climate Action

 

Next Meeting Information

Here is the list of meetings for California Interfaith Power and Light Peninsula/South Bay Working Group:

http://cipl.pensbay.googlepages.com/

All community members are welcome to attend the Working Group General Meetings.

Please spread the word to all clergy you know and encourage them to join their colleagues at the

Clergy/Religious Leader luncheon on Thursday, Feb. 12 (see below for more info).

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Wed. January 14 7-9 pm General Working Group Meeting

Ethical Banking and Solar Financing

Congregation Kol Emeth

Social Hall

4175 Manuela Ave.

Palo Alto CA 94306

(off of Arastradero, near Foothill Expressway)

www.kolemeth.org

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Interfaith Clergy Climate Luncheon - Feb. 12

For clergy/religious leaders of all faiths

Thr., Feb. 12, 2009  -- 11:45 am-1:30 pm

1st  Congregational Church

   1985 Louis Rd. (at Embarcadero, near 101), Palo Alto, CA 94303

$5 donation for delicious, local, sustainable, vegetarian lunch

Hosts: Rev. Dr. Eileen Altman, Associate Minister, 1st  Cong. Church

   Rev. Margo Tenold, Co-Executive Director, Santa Clara County Council of Churches

   Rabbi Sheldon Lewis, Rabbi Emeritus, Cong. Kol Emeth

Speakers: Rev. Eileen Altman on Climate Change Science and the Role of Clergy

 Rev. Charlotte Myers, Program Director for Cal. Interfaith Power & Light, on resources for clergy for addressing the spiritual and practical sides of climate change.

      Both speakers have recently participated in a training for clergy in Nashville, TN conducted by the staff of Al Gore’s Climate Project.

Goals for the Meeting – Clergy who attend will:

 -- Be informed on the scope and urgency of the climate crisis.

 -- Be empowered to act as leaders of their congregation, community of faith (denomination), and in the broader community to address the spiritual and humanitarian challenges of a planet in peril.

 -- Learn doable actions that busy clergy can integrate into their work, including tools for lay-led green teams.

 -- Connect with other clergy to provide ideas, encouragement, and hope to one another.

   To RSVP of for more information, contact:

Marianna Grossman Keller, Convener, CIPL Peninsula/South Bay Working Group

 email:  marianna [at] kellers.org  phone: (650) 424-9424

or Rev. Altman  email: eileen [at] fccpa.org  phone: (650) 856-6662

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 - Mon. Feb. 23, 2009  7-9 pm    General Working Group Meeting

Location: host needed!

Topic: Earth Day planning (April 22) and Energy  Efficiency

Guests: -- Representative from Acterra's Green at Home and Cool Congregations programs

 -- Representative from HomeZ and/or other energy efficiency resources

Location: Congregation Shir HaDash,

20 Cherry Blossom Lane

Los Gatos, CA 95032-4637

http://shirhadash.org/

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- Tue, March 31, 2009 7-9 pm      General Working Group Meeting

Location: Unitarian Universalist Church of Palo Alto

Main Hall, 505 Charleston Road, Palo Alto (1 block west of Middlefield)

Topic: Water

Guests: TBD

- Thr, May 14, 2009 7-9 pm    General Working Group Meeting

Location: host needed!

Topic: Transportation

Guests: TBD

- Late May/Early June          Clergy Luncheon

Topic, Guests and Location TBD

- Sun, June 28  afternoon     family event/outing

Topic and location TBD

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