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OhIPL, the OSU School of Environment and Natural Resources, the OSU Extension Climate Change Outreach Team, OSU Energy Services and Sustainability, and Green Energy Ohio are co-sponsoring an Earthkeeping Summit on Saturday, March 31, at OSU's LEED certified 4-H Center. Dr. Jason Box, Nancy Sleeth, and Bill Spratley will keynote; several outstanding workshops will be offered to equip participants for Earthkeeping work.

IPL founder Rev. Canon Sally G. Bingham has issued a statement commending President Obama's decision announced today to deny a special permit for the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, citing moral and environmental reasons that have bolstered oppostion to the pipeline from faith community leaders.  Click here to read the full statement.

Eco-film Series: MLK and Environmental Justice –Our next screening occurs on the weekend we celebrate the birthday of Dr Martin Luther King.  Environmental degradation disproportionately impacts the poor and persons-of-color in Ohio and throughout the world.  As their champion, Dr King would have led the fight for Ecojustice had he lived to see its impact.  Join us at the Dayton International Peace Museum

Our Creator took chaos and transformed it into indescribable beauty, form and creative order. What’s more, God breathed life into humankind and commanded us to “tend and keep” His blessed creation.

When Katharine Hayhoe was faced with telling a group of petroleum engineers in the heart of the Texas oil patch that the main culprit for climate change is humanity's consumption of fossil fuels, she expected pushback.

Last year, I loaded up the Christmas stockings of relatives and friends with 60-watt Philips LEDs -- light-emitting diode -- light bulbs, and this holiday I'll do it again. Why give a present few people even know they want? Because LEDs are the gift that keeps on giving, saving money every month on electric bills....MORE -From article: Tips for a bright-and efficient- Christmas by Russ Doty and Holly Wilde

The world's national science academies surely don't agree that "everybody should have been a skeptic two years ago," but this news is nonetheless of interest.Sunday, October 30, 2011

 A professor from UW-Wisconsin Madison to speak with the Dalai Lama about ethics and the environment. For a live feed link of the meeting and full article click here

 An interesting opinion article about the potential ramifications for our climate policies and the actions Greece decides to take.  Greece’s debt crisis threatens more than the collapse of the euro and the European Union – it would also be a climate disaster