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Timeline
2000 |
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2000 |
Energy Stewardship Guide for Congregations produced by Eco-Justice Working Group of National Council of Churches U.S.A. |
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February 2000 |
Mark X. Jacobs testifies to Congress on increasing fuel economy standards |
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February 2000 |
Indiana Catholic Conference issues message on "Care for the Earth" |
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March 2000 |
Coalition on the Environment and Jewish Life Leadership Institute, Malibu, CA |
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April 2000 |
Earth Day Sunday theme, "Good Stewards of God's Gift of Energy" (Eco-Justice Working Group, National Council of Churches U.S.A.) |
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June 2000 |
Coalition on the Environment and Jewish Life activists around the U.S. testify at Forest Service hearings in favor of protecting National Forests |
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October 2000 |
Catholic Bishops of the Boston Province issue pastoral letter, "And God Saw that It was Good" |
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2001 |
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2001 |
Interfaith Climate and Energy Campaign expands to 21 States |
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2001 |
More than 100 young leaders attend Leadership Institute of the Greater Boston Coalition on the Environment and Jewish Life |
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2001 |
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) passes resolution on "Mass Extinction and Biodiversity" |
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February 2001 |
Coalition on the Environment and Jewish Life organizes first annual Environmental Track at Hillel Spitzer Forum |
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February 2001 |
U.S. and Canadian Catholic Bishops issue "The Columbia River Watershed: Caring for Creation and the Common Good" |
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April 2001 |
Creation Sunday theme, "Human Health," Evangelical Environmental Network |
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April 2001 |
Earth Day Sunday theme, "Witnessing to the Resurrection: God's Caring for Creation" (Eco-Justice Working Group, National Council of Churches U.S.A.) |
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May 2001 |
"Energy Conservation and God's Creation" religious leaders' statement signed by 28 senior Jewish and Christian religious leaders |
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June 2001 |
Evangelical Environmental Network inaugurates "Creation Fest Recycling Program" at Creation Fest, a Christian rock festival, Mount Union, PA |
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June 2001 |
U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops statement on Climate Change |
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Summer 2001 |
Jewish environmental educators and rabbis participate in a Jewish Environmental Sea Kayak Expedition in Alaska |
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December 2001 |
Evangelical Environmental Network launches www.healthyfamiliesnow.org website |
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2001-2003 |
U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops Environmental Justice Program assists five major regional projects in Connecticut, Michigan, Florida, Iowa, and California with two-year funding from Nathan E. Cummings Foundation |
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