TITLE

Sierra Club highlights going green for God

PUB. DATE

October 2008

SOURCE

Christian Century;10/21/2008, Vol. 125 Issue 21, p22

SOURCE TYPE

Periodical

DOC. TYPE

Article

ABSTRACT

The article discusses a report conducted by the Sierra Club that describes how religious communities are participating in green-centered environmental resolutions. The article describes how churches, synagogues, and mosques are beginning recycling initiatives, protesting efforts to drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska, and reducing carbon emissions in their communities.

ACCESSION #

34758218

Tags: RELIGIOUS communities -- Environmental aspects;  SIERRA Club;  ENVIRONMENTALISM;  GREEN movement;  RELIGIOUS life

 

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