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CONTENTS
1) URGENT!: Support of Mandatory Limits on Greenhouse Gas Emissions
 for the Environment
2) LOCAL: CIPL's Open Letter and Legislative Lobby Day
3) NATIONAL: Earth Day 2006 Re-Cap.
4) GLOBAL: Poorest Nations Most Vulnerable to Changing Climate
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MUST-SEE MOVIES!
URGENT!:
 California Interfaith Power & Light is issuing an appeal from the state's religious leaders in support of mandatory limits on greenhouse gas emissions. This letter addresses Governor Schwarzenegger, Senate President pro Tem Don Perata, Assembly Speaker Fabian Nuñez, and members of the California State Legislature. To add your name to our growing list of religious leaders from around the state, please e-mail Outreach Director Jessica Brown with your name and congregation: Email Jessica. For more information about CIPL's letter and for information about our upcoming Sacramento lobby day, please read on.
LOCAL:
CIPL's Open Letter and Legislative Lobby Day
Signatures on CIPL's Open Letter come from members of the clergy and local religious leaders who seek to implement the announced state goals on emissions reductions: to 2000 levels by 2010, 1990 levels by 2020, and 80% below 1990 levels by 2050. Those whose names are found in the Open Letter believe that the situation of global warming in California requires immediate and decisive action. Because every major religious tradition calls on its members to be faithful stewards of creation, CIPL believes this matter to be an imperative priority, necessitating government leadership, accountability, and intervention.
CIPL is organizing and will conduct a Sacramento Lobby Day on Wednesday, June 28th. Religious leaders from around California will be given the opportunity to express their increasing concerns about global warming to key Assembly Members in the Member's own capitol office. Please join us to help make a lasting, religiously-inspired impact on California. Religious leaders and members of the clergy are asked to arrive at 9:30am at Westminster Presbyterian Church, located at 1300 N Street Sacramento, CA 95814. A press conference will soon follow. We will move to the capitol to begin our legislative meetings at 11:45am. Lunch will be provided and we will finish the day at approximately 4pm.
For more information on this event, please email Outreach Director Jessica Brown: Email Jessica.
Members of the clergy are kindly asked to arrive in Sacramento clothed in vestments.
NATIONAL:
Earth Day 2006 Re-Cap
 Religious leaders recently participated in a discussion event focused on environmental stewardship, hosted by the Center for American Progress. Among the panelists were Reverend Richard Cizik (shown in photo) of the National Association of Evangelicals, Sister Patricia Daly of the Tri-State Coalition for Responsible Investment, Rabbi Daniel Swartz of Greater Washington Interfaith Power and Light, and John Carr, the Secretary of the Department of Social Development and World Peace, U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.
The panel of religious leaders responded to questions about whether the religious community has a new way to mobilize the public to address the serious threat of global warming. If every major religious tradition has within its teachings a mandate of responsible cultivation and care for the natural world, why have we collectively put the earth in so much danger? Is it possible for members of different faiths to work with one another to reverse the process of global warming?
You can watch the panelists as they respond to these questions and more here.
Reverend Cizik and Rabbi Swartz were also featured in what has recently been recognized as "the largest internet television event ever" on Earth Day. 16,000 classrooms witnessed the broadcast presented by the Earthday Network. Keep checking here for the replay coming soon.
Read on...
GLOBAL:
Poorest Nations Most Vulnerable to Changing Climate
 Christian Aid has issued a report stating that the greatest number of victims due to climate change will be the poorest of the world. Those in sub-Saharan Africa are the most vulnerable to the flooding, famine, drought and diseases directly attributable to increases in CO² emissions. The estimation is that 182 million Africans will become the casualties of the catastrophic changes by 2100.
Nearly 200 nations met last May in Bonn, Germany to discuss more involvement from the U.S. and other rich nations in combating climate change. In the report by Christian Aid, rich countries are called on to fund a switch from fossil fuel to clean energy sources. More specifically, it calls for governments to commit to a 33 percent reduction in COsup2; emissions by 2050.
Read on...
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An Inconvenient Truth -STAFF PICK
The End of Surburbia: Oil Depletion and the Collapse of The American Dream
The Great Warming
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