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Bands That Go Green
Musicians have long been catalysts for social change. When it comes to the environment though, the music industry has lagged behind. However, many musicians today are climbing aboard the “green” tour bus.
Spiritual Progress: Congregations Going Green
Congregations Caring for Creation (C3) is an interfaith network of more than 80 congregations that are making the active care of Creation integral to spiritual life and social justice in their congregation. C3/MNIPL is the Minnesota chapter of a national movement called Interfaith Power and Light (IPL).
Typical Outdoor Lighting Needs a Major Overhaul
Few of us give much thought to outdoor lighting because it is all around us: on our streets and parking lots, barn yards and buildings. We feel safer with lights and have come to depend on them. Outdoor lights give us a feeling of security against personal attack and vandalism. They provide visibility so that we can see where we are walking, find our car in the parking lot, find the entrance to the building, and illuminate nighttime activities. As the population expands, so does outdoor lighting.
However, the problems with typical outdoor lighting are numerous:
Neighborhood Networks
Communities
". . . [A community] must have characteristics which cause it to substantially meet the following criteria:- It must have enough population to support a full cross-section of community services, i.e. schools, including a high school, a major shopping center, etc.
- It must not be so large in size that it would be impractical for any portion to patronize reasonably located community facilities within it.
Workparties: Many Hands Make Light Work
Each month, like a roving band of grain threshers or barn raisers, my family of four and two other households descend upon one of our homes to paint, build, garden and clean, and to eat, drink and be merry.
