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  • Mandates
    Often, people read Genesis as a license to dominate and subjugate nature (e.g., Genesis 1:26-28) or to be stewards of Creation (Genesis 2). However, the biblical message of environmental justice is mo
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  • Useful Contacts
    Chlorine Free Products Association - Friendly staff will answer questions about environmental issues related to chlorine use and help you locate chlorine-free product manufacturers and distributors. G
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  • Why a Green Team?
    United Methodist Women - Green Team Orientation & Planning Meeting, April 7-8, 2005, Stamford, CT Green Team for Environmental Advocacy: The concept of Green Teamís work on environmental advoca
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  • UMWs Concerned About Environmental Threats to Women
    The Women’s Division of the General Board of Global Ministries of the United Methodist Church has helped support the event financially and has sponsored some of the United Methodist Women (UMW) member
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  • Why Do We Have This Guide?
    Many United Methodist Church and United Methodist Women gatherings are part of a regular cycle of church activities. Regardless of the size of the activity or its frequency (one-time, occasional or r
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  • Women's Division Grants 2000
    The following provides a brief description of the organization, the amount of the grant in 2000, a web link to the organization, a scriptural basis for the grant, and a reference from the United Metho
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  • A New Voice: The Green Teaman innovative initiative from The United Methodist Church/ Women's Division
    ìThe Green Team has a goal of realizing environmental justice - the fair treatment and meaningful involvement of all people - regardless of race, ethnicity, income or educational level - in environmen
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  • World Summite on Sustainable Development: Findings and Objectives
    From August 26th to September 5th, over 100 countries gathered to attend the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg, South Africa. The United Nations summit, Rio + 10, notes the 10 y
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  • Action Ideas
    Consult the Internet for "Our Children at Risk," a report on environmental-health threats. Do a program on breast cancer and the environment for your local United Methodist Women's Unit. Contact the
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  • Joshua: Arise! Cross!
    So the people were too afraid to obey God and enter the land. God calls Joshua, as God called Moses, to be a leader for God's people. Indigenous Environmental Network* is a grassroots allianc
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  • “Water is Life”
      Two million cubic miles of water is found in the earth within a one-half mile surface of earth; seven million cubic miles of water can be found in glaciers and ice caps; and only 60,000 cubic miles
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  • Modeling Environmental Responsibility
    Directors voted that the Women’s Division would begin to model environmental responsibility with respect to dioxin contamination. To do this, the Division will use chlorine-free paper for all its cop
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  • A Letter To Staples CEO
    Our group of organizations, led by the women of the United Methodist Church, carried out a campaign of visiting Staples stores throughout the country to ask for the PCF paper and reported back to our
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  • No Title
    The report identifies the most urgent needs of developing nations -- development, security, human rights, health care, and environmental sustainability, among others - and discusses strategies for me
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  • Green Guidance
    Many United Methodist Church and United Methodist Women gatherings are part of a regular cycle of church activities. Regardless of the size of the activity or its frequency (one-time, occasional or r
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  • Theressa Hoover Awardees
    October 20, 1998 -- Environmental contaminants and linguistics as power are the foci of research for the two 1999 Theressa Hoover Community Service and Global Citizen Awardees announced Sunday
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  • Policies for Going Green
    United Methodist Women are governed by several layers of Church policy that form the foundation for implementing environmentally just guidelines when planning events. "The Social Principles" found in
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  • Presentation on Environmental Justice Work from a Faith Perspective To an audience of business and government leaders and environmentalists
      United Methodist Women has historically been concerned about the health and welfare of women and children around the world because of their relationship to God.   In other words United Methodist Wom
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  • United Methodist Women: Ways to Make a Gift Online
    This includes leadership development programs for teen women and college/university women, leadership training programs for conference and district leaders of United Methodist Women, and computer-base
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  • Tips On Going Green
    * When you get the "it’s too expensive" excuse, talk about the real (total) costs which include the health, social and environmental costs of not making the change. * Develop guidelines for the use of
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