November 7, 2011 – 10:49 pm
We’re more than halfway there! I’m spending my Monday evening with a dedicated group of board members and volunteers making phone calls on behalf of Kansas Interfaith Power & Light. As you know, we’re trying to raise $10,000 by December 1 to match a challenge grant from our national parent organization. This will allow us [...]
November 2, 2011 – 11:12 am
by KAREN DILLON The Kansas City Star The long, epic fight over whether to build a coal-fired power plant in western Kansas has taken yet another strange twist: A federal agency is accusing a state agency of telling tall tales to the highest court in Kansas. The battle over the Sunflower coal-fired power plant currently [...]
October 10, 2011 – 11:10 am
Environmentalists lined up in Topeka today (MON) to tell representatives from the State Department they oppose the $7 billion Keystone XL pipeline, which would move oil to the Texas coast from Canada. Rabbi Moti Rieber, coordinator of Kansas Interfaith Power & Light, joined the orderly procession of speakers today (MON). The religious and environmental group [...]
October 10, 2011 – 11:08 am
By Tim Carpenter Gov. Sam Brownback countered environmentalists’ objections Monday by endorsing completion of a pipeline capable of moving thick crude from western Canada to oil hubs in Texas on the Gulf Coast. A section of TransCanada’s underground pipeline running through Kansas was completed in February, but the U.S. Department of State is conducting public [...]
October 10, 2011 – 11:03 am
(This article appeared in newspapers and websites all over the country, including the Kansas City Star and the Huffington Post) by MARIA SUDEKUM FISHER TOPEKA, Kan. — Environmentalists told officials from the U.S. State Department on Monday they opposed the proposed Keystone XL oil pipeline, claiming it would move a “dirtier” and “environmentally devastating form [...]
September 1, 2011 – 1:30 pm
From Climate Progress: Countless investigations — 3 in the U.K., 2 by Penn State, the EPA, the NOAA IG — have all unanimously found the allegations against climate scientists and their research conclusions based on the hacked “ClimateGate” emails to be wholly unsubstantiated. Political candidates backed by the fossil fuel industry, of course, continue to [...]
August 15, 2011 – 10:56 am
By Michael Strand You probably don’t eat much fossil fuel — but without fossil fuel, you probably won’t eat much. By the time all the accounting is done — including natural gas to make fertilizer, fuel for various farm equipment, packaging and shipping, the nation’s food system accounts for about one-fifth of fossil fuel consumption, [...]
Clergy/Faith Leadership Interfaith Breakfast Wednesday, August 24, 2011, 8:30-10 AM Wood Fashion Grill, 157 N. 7th Street, Salina, KS All faiths have as one of their core principles the care and responsible stewardship of God’s creation. A growing number of congregations of all faiths – locally, nationally, and around the world – are becoming involved [...]
The unnecessary, expensive and environmentally disastrous coal plant proposed for the southeast Kansas town of Holcomb continues to generate all kinds of negative news. In case you missed it, the KC Star ran a story in mid-June in which it reported that the Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) had essentially outsourced its oversight [...]
Dear Friends, The convergence of Holy Week, Passover and Earth Day is a powerful one for those of us who make creation care an important part of our spiritual practice. Given what faces us on the environmental front – loss of species, the ongoing aftermath of the Gulf oil spill, the poisoning of the earth [...]