Environment

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Rethink, Refuse, Renew, Restore, Refurbish, Rejoice

St. Peter's Episcopal Church, 654 N. Easton Road, Glenside, presents a Film and Speaker Series: Faith and Environment.
Five Friday Nights from 7:30 to 9 p.m.
May 4: See The Awakening Universe, a beautiful and inspiring film that takes you from the birth of the Universe to the emergence of human consciousness. Speaker Bill Roth is the Executive Director of The Earthbourne Institute of Science, Spirituality and Culture.
May 18: With speaker Joy Bergey and the film Kilowatt Ours will find out more about clean and dirty electricity, PA'S role in global warming, and what you can do to help. Joy Bergey works on global warming with PennFuture and the Pennsylvania Interfaith Climate Change Campaign.
June 1: See highlights from the film The End of Suburbia and learn about peak oil and what we can do to meet the challenge. Speaker Larry Menkes, an expert on high performance homes and businesses, is the coordinator of the Post Carbon Institute's chapter in the Delaware Valley.
June 15: Family Night! Bring the kids and see the film Happy Feet. This award-winning animated comedy is set deep in Antarctica, the land of the Emperor Penguins. This film celebrates in fantasy the wonders of nature.
June 29: Consider the fascinating ethical issues that arise as we explore our relationship with nature. Take a look at the Earth Charter. Speaker Lisa Donahue is an environmental scientist who teaches environmental policy and ethics at Arcadia University.
Free-will offering — Refreshments. For more information: 215-887-1765 or www.StPetersGIenside.org

Prayers & Reflections for Earth Day

For the Lord your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of flowing streams, with springs and underground waters welling up in valleys and hills,
a land of wheat and barely, of vines and fig trees and pomegranates, a land of olive trees and honey, a land where you might eat bread without scarcity, where you will lack nothing,
a land whose stones are iron, and from whose hills you may mine copper.
You will eat your fill and bless the Lord your God for the good land He has given you.
- Deuteronomy 8:7-11

We join with the earth and each other to bring new life to the land, to restore waters, to refresh the air.
We join with the earth and each other to renew the forests, to care for the plains, to protect the creatures.
We join with the earth and each other to celebrate the seas, to rejoice in the sunlight, to sing the song of stars.
We join with the earth and each other to recreate the human community, to promote justice and peace, to remember our children.
We join with the earth and each other, together, as many and diverse expressions of one loving Mystery for the healing of the earth and the renewal of all life.
-U.N. Environmental Sabbath Prayer

The earth is at the same time mother, she is mother of all that is natural, mother of all that is human.
She is the mother of all, for contained in her are the seeds of all.
The earth of humankind contains all moistness, all verdancy, all germinating power.
It is in so many ways fruitful. All creation comes from it. Yet it forms not only the basic raw material for humankind, but also the substance of the incarnation of God's son.
- Hildegard of Bingen

Paper recycling at St. Luke's - By popular demand, St Luke’s is now recycling ALL of our school (classroom/office) and parish paper. We have contracted with Abitibi Recycling, who supplied us with a bright green/yellow Paper Retriever Bin (lower parking lot) free of charge, and will pay us by the ton for our paper.
We need all your: Newspapers, Magazines, Shopping Catalogs, Office/School Papers, Mail. No Cardboard or phonebooks
Instead of putting your papers out for Township collection, bring them to Church and drop them in the Paper Retriever Bin! This recycling program is open to all school and parish families and neighbors. Questions? Call Beth Stieritz 215-572-0128.

Links

Earth 911 - "Making Every Day Earth Day!" contains a comprehensive recycling guide, including local locations

Abington Township's Environmental Advisory Council
Abington Township's Recycling Tips
Abington Township's Recycling
Abington Township's Large Item Pickup
Abington Township's Household Hazardous Waste Collection
Abington Township's Yard Waste Collection
Abington Township's Leaf Collection
Abington Township's Grass Recycling
Abington Township's Compost Site Facilities

Cheltenham Township's Mandatory Recycling - glass, cans, plastics and paper.
Cheltenham Township's Voluntary Cardboard Recycling - Drop off cardboard at two sites in the Township.
Cheltenham Township's Leaf collections - spring and fall
Cheltenham Township's Spring & Summer Bagged Leaves, Grass & Garden Debris Collections
Cheltenham Township's Leaf mulch
Cheltenham Township's Christmas Tree collections

Montgomery County's Recycling including Household Hazardous Waste Collection dates

A Shopper's Guide to Home Tissue Products

Greentips: environmental ideas in action

Faithful Stewards of God's Creation

Caring for God's Creation: The Program for Environmental Justice
United States Conference of Catholic Bishops

United Nations Environment Programme - environment for development

The Rainwater Partnership

Global Warming Information:
www.stopglobalwarming.org
www.climatecrisis.org
www.abc.go.com - this is for abc world news, if one looks under "The Hot Zone" there are updates on research findings etc.
www.fcnl.org

Documents

Declaration on the Environment
Pope John Paul II and Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople, June 10, 2002

Global Climate Change: A Plea for Dialogue, Prudence, and the Common Good
United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, June 15, 2001

Renewing the Earth
United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, November 14, 1991

Events

Check on courses at the Cecilian Center for Earth, Arts and Spirit (Winter 2007)

Our contest winning Slogans

Recycle if you please, save our trees.
If you recycle, you'll be nicer.
Recycling helps everyone.