Anglicans urged to carbon-fast for Lent

[hrmjustin]

[Anglican Communion News Service] The Anglican Communion’s Environmental Network (ACEN) is encouraging Christians around the world to take part in a “carbon-fast” this Lent.

The network is calling on Anglicans to take a deeper challenge than fasting from coffee, alcohol or chocolates this Lent, by reducing the use of carbon based fuels on which we all depend.

“We will take small steps for a more sustainable world, and by doing so rediscover a different relationship with God, with Creation and with one another,” the group says on its website, adding: “I can change the world a little in 40 days, but I can change myself a lot!”

For each week during Lent, which runs from Ash Wednesday on March 5 to the Saturday before Holy Week on April 12, the network has developed themed materials to focus on “a time of reflection and action.”
http://episcopaldigitalnetwork.com/ens/2014/02/19/anglicans-urged-to-carbon-fast-for-lent/

[shenmue]

1. :)

Not a bad idea.

[cbayer]

2. What a great idea.

Hopefully those that participate will develop some new habits that they can sustain.

I am repeatedly surprised when I go to the homes of people who voice support, sometimes vehement support, for environmental causes. I watch them leave every light in the house on, run the water endlessly, run the AC with the doors open, etc., etc.

[trotsky]

3. Not to mention those that rely on polluting and inefficient gas generators for their power.

But I guess not everyone is perfect.

[yeoman6987]

4. Not to mention those that rely on polluting and inefficient gas generators for their power.

Wait.....they don't use those full time. They only use them during electrical outages. Everyone in my neighborhood has them. They turn on immediately. I do not have one but was thinking about it because it stinks being in the dark for any more than 3 days. Are you sure they are as bad as you claim?

[trotsky]

5. Yeah, I'm not referring to people who use them in power failures.

But rather those who use them for regular power generation.

[yeoman6987]

6. Wow

I couldn't imagine having that running full time. Aren't they loud as heck? That is one reason why I am so on the fence about them. Of course if it is destroying the environment that might be a decision maker right there anyway.