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with Special Guest Speaker, Interfaith Power and Light founder
Rev. Sally Bingham
Winner of the US EPA Climate Protection Award
Tuesday, April 6, 7 pm
St Matthew's Episcopal Church
Featuring the first Kippie awards recognizing outstanding care for God's creation.
Seating is Strictly Limited. Reservations Required.
Donations Encouraged and Appreciated.
Join Kentucky IPL for this special evening in support of Greening West Louisville an initiative designed to empower churches in West Louisville to reduce their energy costs featuring special guest speaker Sally Bingham author of Love God: Heal Earth.
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Sally Bingham
Sally Bingham, a homemaker turned Episcopal priest, developed a new strategy to combat global warming: organize churches, synagogues, Buddhist temples and mosques to buy "green" electricity generated by wind and solar power, to reduce energy consumption in their buildings, and to preach the message that as stewards of God's creation, congregants have a religious and moral obligation to protect the environment.
In 1993, Bingham founded the Regeneration Project, a nonprofit organization that created a national Interfaith Power and Light Campaign to unite all faiths in efforts to prevent the catastrophic effects of global warming. So far, more than 4,000 congregations are participating in 29 states.
Sally has been featured in the national media including articles in the Wall Street Journal and YES magazine. She has won numerous awards including the US EPA Climate Protection Award, the 2007 Purpose Prize, 2006 Conservation Champion Award, and the 2002 international Global Energy Award. In 2007, The World Wildlife Fund recognized the Regeneration Project as a Sacred Gift to the Planet. In addition, her work with Interfaith Power and Light was featured in the award winning documentary Renewal:
Greening West Louisville empowers churches in West Louisville to reduce their energy costs and care for God's creation. All of Louisville's coal-burning power plants are in the western part of the city and the pollution from those plants adversely affects the air and water quality in West Louisville. We have identified 92 churches in the three most impacted zip codes.
Greening West Louisville's goal is to organize Creation Care Committees in 20 of those congregations with which we can work to:
1. Reduce the energy consumption of the congregation's buildings and save them money.
2. Educate the congregation's members about the environmental effects of energy use.
3. Educate the congregation members about reducing their energy use and how it can save them money.
Sponsored by: St. Matthews Episcopal Church Green Team, Heine Brothers Coffee, Cultivating Connections, Passionist Earth & Spirit Center, Center for Interfaith Relations.
The three winners of the 2010 Kippie awards are:
Holy Spirit Catholic Church in Bowling Green for their efforts towards LEED certification of their two new buildings that feature geothermal and other energy efficient systems.
The Kentucky Council of Churches for their efforts to promote care for God's creation at their 62nd Annual Assembly that was themed "United for the Care of God's Earth."
Thomas Jefferson Universalist Unitarian Church
for their efforts that led to their congregation being recognized as a Green Sanctuary.
