Environmental Stewardship News Round-Up

Tuesday, May 29, 2007
The following items appear in the Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation Newsletter, May 29, 2007:

1. Coalition to advocate environmental balance
by Tom Strode, May 8, 2007


2. Silly statement of the month: Nancy Pelosi declares “Climate change is a reality”

Berlin (AP) - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Monday she led a congressional delegation to Greenland, where lawmakers saw “firsthand evidence that climate change is a reality,” and she hoped the Bush administration would consider a new path on the issue. . . .

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Vatican Going Green

Tuesday, May 29, 2007
Or so reports Catholic News Service today.

In and of itself, the item is not that big a deal: The Vatican will be installing solar panels atop the Pius VI Hall, where the pope holds his general audiences. It does seem, however, to be indicative of greater emphasis being placed on environmental stewardship by the leadership of the Catholic Church (among other eccesial bodies, as has been much remarked on this blog). There was no official comment from the Vatican, but the news writer linked the story to the wider context:
Even though Vatican City State is not a signatory of the Kyoto Protocol, a binding international environmental pact to cut greenhouse gases, its inaugural solar project marks a major move in trying to reduce its own so-called carbon footprint, that is, the amount of carbon dioxide released through burning fossil fuels.
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