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In the past 20 years the US state of Iowa has experienced three crisis-level floods, the latest, in 2008, put nearly a third of the state underwater. ‘It was a 500 year flood, causing $60 billion in damages”, said the Very Revd Cathleen Bascom, dean of the Cathedral Church of St Paul in downtown Des Moines, adding that the frequency of the floods ‘is what opened our eyes to the climate change issue’.

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Reduce Energy Use, Save Money, and Care for God’s Creation

In 2009, the Episcopal Church memorialized the Genesis Covenant, which is a national, ecumenical effort by religious communities to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions from every facility they maintain by at least 50% within 10 years. 

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The Revd Canon Jeff Golliher, Anglican UN Office Program Consultant for the Environment s, reflects on fracking, which is the deep drilling for natural gas with highly pressurised water and dangerous chemicals. and Sustainable Development.

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The Episcopal Church House of Bishops, meeting in Province IX, in Quito, Ecuador, issued the following Pastoral Teaching:

We, your bishops, believe these words of Jeremiah describe these times and call us to repentance as we face the unfolding environmental crisis of the earth:

How long will the land mourn, and the grass of every field wither? For the wickedness of those who live in it the animals and the birds are swept away, and because people said, "He is blind to our ways." (Jeremiah 12:4)

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Faith and Nature is an eight-session, downloadable, intergenerational, faith-formation resource focused on appreciating and living in harmony with God’s creation.

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In an innovative venture that benefits congregations of all sizes, the Episcopal Church has partnered with GreenFaith, a national religious environmental group, to assist churches' efforts to go green.

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Climate change, global warming, economic and environmental justice, creation care, renewable energy and nuclear energy and weaponry are among the cadre of environment-related resolutions under consideration by the Episcopal Churches General Convention.

The Episcopal Church's Office of Government Relations (OGR), based in Washington, D.C., lobbies Congress and the president in response to legislation passed at General Convention. The legislation also sets the agenda for the church's Advocacy Center, which includes OGR, the Episcopal Public Policy Network, Native American/Indigenous Ministries and environmental and domestic affairs.

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Urgent action is needed by the United States in response to global warming, Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori said in a March 31 letter to the U.S. Senate, urging Congress' upper house "to take up climate change legislation at the earliest possible moment."

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Interfaith Power and Light held its second annual national conference at Cathedral College in Washington, DC, on July 16-19. Attendees from the 16 state affiliates across the country gathered to discuss how to mobilize a religious response to global warming while promoting renewable energy, energy efficiency and conservation.

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