From ehoffner at orionsociety.org Fri Nov 14 16:02:18 2008 From: ehoffner at orionsociety.org (Erik Hoffner, Orion Grassroots Network) Date: Fri Nov 14 16:02:27 2008 Subject: [Creation Care] Time For a Change in Climate Policy References: Message-ID: OK, I swear this is the last time I forward an Interfaith Power and Light email to this list, but just in case some of you aren't on their list, below is an important action to ensure that Mr. Obama knows that climate change is moral issue, of great weight with people of faith... Erik -- Erik Hoffner Orion Grassroots Network 888-909-6568 http://www.oriongrassroots.org The Orion Grassroots Network provides services and support to grassroots organizations engaged in ecological, social, and cultural change. > > ? > 11/11/2008 ? > Dear Erik, > > President-elect Obama ran on a theme of change. And he has already > signaled that he intends to move quickly on his priority issues. > ?The economy, of course, is at the top of the list. But we know that protecting the climate can't wait either. The same solutions that will address global warming are the same steps that should be taken for economic recovery. It's up to us to make sure the new administration knows the faith community supports urgent action on global warming ? from modernizing the electrical grid and creating green jobs to capping greenhouse gas emissions. > > For the past eight years, our Interfaith Power and Light > congregations have been changing light bulbs, shrinking their > carbon footprints, and installing solar rooftops. We've shown that > it can be done, and that we can save money while saving Creation. > But we know that our actions alone will not be enough to stem the > tide of global warming. > > It's past time for the U.S. to take a leadership role in the > climate crisis. It's important for President-elect Obama to know > that global warming is not just an environmental issue ? it's a > moral crisis that people of faith care deeply about. > > I am inviting you to join us in building a clean energy platform > for the new administration. We plan to launch a national petition > to urge serious and specific action on global warming. We will > circulate this petition widely in the faith community and deliver > it to the President-elect in January 2009. > > Please help us build our clean energy agenda by clicking here to > vote for the elements you think should be included in our petition > to the President-elect. > > Vote here. > > Keep the faith, > > The Rev. Canon Sally G. Bingham > > FIND US ON: > ? ? ? > SHOP IPL > > ? > Discounts on LED Holiday lights! > > GET INVOLVED > > Visit your state's Interfaith Power and Light. > > Join the IPL Online Activist Team for more Action Alerts. > > > > > Mailing Address: > The Regeneration Project > 220 Montgomery St Ste 450 > San Francisco, CA 94104 > US > -------------- next part -------------- Skipped content of type multipart/related From kmgfinearts at comcast.net Sat Nov 15 12:38:46 2008 From: kmgfinearts at comcast.net (Kathleen Garness) Date: Sat Nov 15 12:35:30 2008 Subject: [Creation Care] Re: Faith Digest, Vol 39, Issue 1 Message-ID: Thanks for the update! And some of his Illinois votes have been a bit, shall I say, "iffy", as far of promotion of sustainable energy. I hope his policy advisors keep him on track on this issue too! Kathy G. On Nov 15, 2008, at 11:00 AM, faith-request@lists.orionsociety.org wrote: > > Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 16:02:18 -0500 > From: "Erik Hoffner, Orion Grassroots Network" > > OK, I swear this is the last time I forward an Interfaith Power and > Light email to this list, but just in case some of you aren't on > their list, below is an important action to ensure that Mr. Obama > knows that climate change is moral issue, of great weight with people > of faith... > > Erik > ?The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.? - Edmund Burke From ehoffner at yahoo.com Sat Nov 22 10:57:22 2008 From: ehoffner at yahoo.com (Erik Hoffner) Date: Sat Nov 22 10:57:27 2008 Subject: [Creation Care] a great inauguration celebration Message-ID: <576837.56049.qm@web52101.mail.re2.yahoo.com> Here's a great way to celebrate the new administration, led by Orion Grassroots Network member group New England Grassroots Environment Fund. Please consider marking January 20th in this symbolic way in your home community. Erik Orion Grassroots Network http://www.oriongrassroots.org ? New England Grassroots Environment Fund P. O. Box 1057 Montpelier , VT 05601 802.223.4622 (phone) 802.229.1734 (fax) www.grassrootsfund.org ? -------------- next part -------------- Skipped content of type multipart/related From ehoffner at orionsociety.org Mon Nov 24 14:10:55 2008 From: ehoffner at orionsociety.org (Erik Hoffner, Orion Grassroots Network) Date: Mon Nov 24 14:11:20 2008 Subject: [Creation Care] a creation care job announcement! References: <625992.88962.qm@web52101.mail.re2.yahoo.com> Message-ID: Here's a creation care job announcement - a rare thing, though becoming less rare - but I don't know how I feel about it. NWF's outreach to the faithful on this single issue of climate change (and I don't know why they use the term global warming below, as that's agreed to be something of a misnomer these days) seems to me like a rather narrow and opportunistic one, like hunting among the faithful for votes when November is coming and then ending the conversation once the election is over. How does it strike you? Anyhow, here it is in case you know someone looking for such a position in VA: > > Faith Community Outreach Manager, Posted Nov 03 > National Wildlife Federation, Reston, VA > > Find a job you?re wild about at the National Wildlife Federation > (NWF), the nation?s largest member-supported conservation > organization, which is at the forefront of global warming issues, > reconnecting our children with nature, and protecting America?s > wildlife and habitat. > > We seek a Faith Community Outreach Manager in our Washington, DC > office. This position works to strengthen our grassroots capacity > and mobilize grassroots participation in NWF advocacy campaigns, > focusing particularly on the initiative to promote global warming > solutions and help wildlife survive the impacts of global warming > by helping to coordinate the mobilization of members of the faith > communities. The Faith Community Outreach Manager will coordinate > across NWF?s departments and regions to develop an effective > program to engage faith community members in the effort to solve > global warming and protect wildlife for our children?s future. > > Must have a Bachelors degree and five years of advocacy or campaign > experience, or equivalent. Must have possess excellent > organizational, verbal, written, and interpersonal skills; the > ability to work well with others as a team and independently follow > through on assigned tasks; knowledge of Microsoft Word and Excel; > and a willingness to master NWF?s activist and Congressional > database software and systems. HTML or web content management > experience a plus. Commitment to conservation required. > > > Do you hear the call of the wild? Apply at www.nwf.org/ > careergateway and join us in mobilizing Americans to protect our > country?s wildlife. > > > NWF offers a competitive salary, excellent benefits and is an equal > opportunity employer committed to workplace diversity. > -- Erik Hoffner Orion Grassroots Network 888-909-6568 http://www.oriongrassroots.org The Orion Grassroots Network provides services and support to grassroots organizations engaged in ecological, social, and cultural change. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.orionsociety.org/pipermail/faith/attachments/20081124/6faa3cde/attachment.htm From kmgfinearts at comcast.net Tue Nov 25 23:09:22 2008 From: kmgfinearts at comcast.net (Kathleen Garness) Date: Tue Nov 25 23:05:56 2008 Subject: [Creation Care] Re: NWF job posting Message-ID: I have a few thoughts - I don't think it's actually that surprising such a large group might identify the need for someone to connect with faith-based groups. I do natural areas restoration work and some of my best volunteers have come from church groups, or faith-based youth groups. The No Child Left Inside initiative has been taken up in many areas of the US, and Virginia especially has an active constituency there. This summer I gave a presentation to a teacher conference and was very pleasantly surprised on how many people were familiar with this. The little bit I do know about these issues seems to indicate that addressing global warming thru grassroots activities might be a different set of actions than those taken to help wildlife survive global warming, but perhaps I'm being simplistic? The incoming administration is huge on networking, so perhaps they see an entry there to both raise money and, hopefully, raise awareness of conservation issues. As for being opportunistic, well.... perhaps they are, or perhaps they're just identifying the next helpful step. Politically a possibly savvy move? I will pass on the notice of the job opportunity to my contacts! Thanks, Kathy Marie > Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2008 14:10:55 -0500 > From: "Erik Hoffner, Orion Grassroots Network" > Here's a creation care job announcement - a rare thing, though > becoming less rare - but I don't know how I feel about it. NWF's > outreach to the faithful on this single issue of climate change (and > I don't know why they use the term global warming below, as that's > agreed to be something of a misnomer these days) seems to me like a > rather narrow and opportunistic one, like hunting among the faithful > for votes when November is coming and then ending the conversation > once the election is over. How does it strike you? > > Anyhow, here it is in case you know someone looking for such a > position in VA: > >> >> Faith Community Outreach Manager, Posted Nov 03 >> National Wildlife Federation, Reston, VA >> >> Find a job you?re wild about at the National Wildlife Federation >> (NWF), the nation?s largest member-supported conservation >> organization, which is at the forefront of global warming issues, >> reconnecting our children with nature, and protecting America?s >> wildlife and habitat. >> >> We seek a Faith Community Outreach Manager in our Washington, DC >> office. This position works to strengthen our grassroots capacity >> and mobilize grassroots participation in NWF advocacy campaigns, >> focusing particularly on the initiative to promote global warming >> solutions and help wildlife survive the impacts of global warming >> by helping to coordinate the mobilization of members of the faith >> communities. The Faith Community Outreach Manager will coordinate >> across NWF?s departments and regions to develop an effective >> program to engage faith community members in the effort to solve >> global warming and protect wildlife for our children?s future. >> >> Must have a Bachelors degree and five years of advocacy or campaign >> experience, or equivalent. Must have possess excellent >> organizational, verbal, written, and interpersonal skills; the >> ability to work well with others as a team and independently follow >> through on assigned tasks; knowledge of Microsoft Word and Excel; >> and a willingness to master NWF?s activist and Congressional >> database software and systems. HTML or web content management >> experience a plus. Commitment to conservation required. >> >> >> Do you hear the call of the wild? Apply at www.nwf.org/ >> careergateway and join us in mobilizing Americans to protect our >> country?s wildlife. >> From ehoffner at orionsociety.org Wed Nov 26 14:25:56 2008 From: ehoffner at orionsociety.org (Erik Hoffner) Date: Wed Nov 26 14:26:01 2008 Subject: [Creation Care] Re: NWF job posting In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <4b9bee2a0811261125ibe1f07dm73eefcea1bca4da6@mail.gmail.com> Kathy, thanks for that note. What I was getting at was that the person they're looking for does not even need to know anything about religion to do the job, ie, just flip open the phone book and start dialing churches and synagogues. Leaders in the faith community get weary of secular folks doing outreach to them when it's coming from such a place, I'm told. Certainly a lot of good intention and action comes from the faith community on the issue of climate change and many others. I just think that it's usually better and more powerful when such things are initiated from within the faith community itself. Great holiday, Erik On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 11:09 PM, Kathleen Garness wrote: > I have a few thoughts - I don't think it's actually that surprising such a > large group might identify the need for someone to connect with faith-based > groups. I do natural areas restoration work and some of my best volunteers > have come from church groups, or faith-based youth groups. The No Child Left > Inside initiative has been taken up in many areas of the US, and Virginia > especially has an active constituency there. This summer I gave a > presentation to a teacher conference and was very pleasantly surprised on > how many people were familiar with this. > > The little bit I do know about these issues seems to indicate that > addressing global warming thru grassroots activities might be a different > set of actions than those taken to help wildlife survive global warming, but > perhaps I'm being simplistic? The incoming administration is huge on > networking, so perhaps they see an entry there to both raise money and, > hopefully, raise awareness of conservation issues. As for being > opportunistic, well.... perhaps they are, or perhaps they're just > identifying the next helpful step. Politically a possibly savvy move? > > I will pass on the notice of the job opportunity to my contacts! > > Thanks, > > Kathy Marie > > > > > Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2008 14:10:55 -0500 >> From: "Erik Hoffner, Orion Grassroots Network" >> Here's a creation care job announcement - a rare thing, though >> becoming less rare - but I don't know how I feel about it. NWF's >> outreach to the faithful on this single issue of climate change (and >> I don't know why they use the term global warming below, as that's >> agreed to be something of a misnomer these days) seems to me like a >> rather narrow and opportunistic one, like hunting among the faithful >> for votes when November is coming and then ending the conversation >> once the election is over. How does it strike you? >> >> Anyhow, here it is in case you know someone looking for such a >> position in VA: >> >> >>> Faith Community Outreach Manager, Posted Nov 03 >>> >>> National Wildlife Federation, Reston, VA >>> >>> Find a job you're wild about at the National Wildlife Federation >>> (NWF), the nation's largest member-supported conservation >>> organization, which is at the forefront of global warming issues, >>> reconnecting our children with nature, and protecting America's >>> wildlife and habitat. >>> >>> We seek a Faith Community Outreach Manager in our Washington, DC >>> office. This position works to strengthen our grassroots capacity >>> and mobilize grassroots participation in NWF advocacy campaigns, >>> focusing particularly on the initiative to promote global warming >>> solutions and help wildlife survive the impacts of global warming >>> by helping to coordinate the mobilization of members of the faith >>> communities. The Faith Community Outreach Manager will coordinate >>> across NWF's departments and regions to develop an effective >>> program to engage faith community members in the effort to solve >>> global warming and protect wildlife for our children's future. >>> >>> Must have a Bachelors degree and five years of advocacy or campaign >>> experience, or equivalent. Must have possess excellent >>> organizational, verbal, written, and interpersonal skills; the >>> ability to work well with others as a team and independently follow >>> through on assigned tasks; knowledge of Microsoft Word and Excel; >>> and a willingness to master NWF's activist and Congressional >>> database software and systems. HTML or web content management >>> experience a plus. Commitment to conservation required. >>> >>> >>> Do you hear the call of the wild? Apply at www.nwf.org/ >>> careergateway and join us in mobilizing Americans to protect our >>> country's wildlife. >>> >>> _______________________________________________ > Discussion Listserv For: > Faith: an Orion Grassroots Network discussion list on the topic of creation > care > Subscribe here: http://lists.orionsociety.org/mailman/listinfo/faith > To unsubscribe email: Faith-unsubscribe@lists.orionsociety.org > For questions email: > Faith-owner@lists.orionsociety.org > > _______________________________________________ > Listserv hosting by: GAIA Host Collective > -- Erik Hoffner Orion Grassroots Network 888-909-6568 http://www.oriongrassroots.org The Orion Grassroots Network provides services and support to grassroots organizations engaged in ecological, social, and cultural change. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.orionsociety.org/pipermail/faith/attachments/20081126/2a2bde92/attachment.htm