Groups are gathering in various regions of the world today, June 8th, to mark World Oceans Day, learning and taking action about ocean change, along with climate change.
As the stars were gathering in Hollywood on Sunday, another group of stars was gathering at Eastminster United Church to celebrate how churches and other communities of faith are turning deeper and deeper green. It was fun to be there.
Hope-filled conversations about my letter of January 17 continue, and I am deeply grateful for your dozens of blog comments, other blog postings, hundreds of e-mails, and many newspaper articles and letters to the editor. Here’s the opening to an opinion piece (“Let’s bring some hope to our fragile planet”) published just last Saturday, February 20, in the Kamloops Daily News (Kamloops), page A12, written by Dawne Taylor:
Support Earth Hour - In 2009 hundreds of millions of people around the world showed their support by turning off their lights for one hour, Earth Hour. In 2010 Earth Hour will continue to be a global call to action to every individual, every business and every community. ...
At 8.30pm on Saturday 27 March, 2010, the greatest show on Earth for action on climate change will take place in homes, office buildings, town halls and public spaces across the globe as lights go out for Earth Hour 2010.
With you, I continue to pray and act from a deep sense of relationship with the people of Haiti. It’s also been a week of responding to enthusiastic (mostly) response to my letter, “Where Is the Hope after Copenhagen?” within media interviews, correspondence, and conversation.
The Moderator of The United Church of Canada, Mardi Tindal, is sharing an open letter to Canadians on the results of the Copenhagen climate change talks and the hope for the future. We invite you to take a look at it and join the conversation. -- Aaron (Admin2)
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This morning leaders in about 250 other congregations (as far as we know now) will join me in reading my open letter to Canadians entitled ‘Where is the Hope after Copenhagen?’
Although it is written to all Canadians, I will introduce it from the pulpit, as I expect others will also, with additional context from our Christian faith. Our faith sustains and guides us in times of pain and paralysis, whether it be the seeming intractability of long term issues like climate change, or the shock of natural disaster. This week, in particular, we continue to respond with prayer and action for the people of Haiti.
I hope for lots of response to my letter - some may be enthusiastic; some not so. Will you please delve in and add your voice to conversation about it here?
You may have heard about the letter by this title that I have written as an open letter to all Canadians, to be read in pulpits across the United Church this Sunday (January 17th) and personally delivered to the Governor General, the Prime Minister, and other party leaders on Jan. 18th. Others, including all parliamentarians, will also receive it.
My last message from Copenhagen was over a week ago. Daily blogs were planned to end on December 18th, but it’s time to renew my regular (normally weekly) correspondence.
