{"id":2851,"date":"2008-03-28T04:38:36","date_gmt":"2008-03-28T10:38:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress-367309-1145705.cloudwaysapps.com\/2008\/03\/28\/jesus-unplugged-religious-groups-participate-in-earth-hour-2008\/"},"modified":"2008-03-28T04:38:36","modified_gmt":"2008-03-28T10:38:36","slug":"jesus-unplugged-religious-groups-participate-in-earth-hour-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/articles\/jesus-unplugged-religious-groups-participate-in-earth-hour-2008\/","title":{"rendered":"Jesus Unplugged: Religious Groups Participate in Earth Hour 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/files\/2008\/03\/632530852_56ffb00935.jpg\" title=\"632530852_56ffb00935.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/files\/2008\/03\/632530852_56ffb00935.jpg\" alt=\"632530852_56ffb00935.jpg\" align=\"left\" width=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Candlelit services are nothing new for religious organizations.  So when businesses, governments, and individuals <a href=\"http:\/\/ecolocalizer.com\/2008\/03\/27\/chicago-ready-to-go-lights-out-for-earth-hour\/\">turn off their lights<\/a> Saturday at 8 p.m. local time, churches, synagogues, and mosques will be holding special gatherings.  This global event is the second annual <a href=\"http:\/\/www3.earthhourus.org\/\">Earth Hour<\/a>, the creation of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wwf.org\">World Wildlife Fund<\/a> to inspire people to take action on climate change.<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/SpecialSections\/EarthHour\/article\/350720\">Toronto<\/a>, The Church of the Holy Trinity in conjunction with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kairoscanada.org\/e\/index.asp\">KAIROS Ecumenical Justice Initiatives<\/a> will be hosting an event called Songs, Stories, and Ritual for the Healing of the Earth with singing, poetry, and drumming.<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ajc.com\/living\/content\/living\/stories\/2008\/03\/26\/NoLight_0327.html\">Atlanta<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gipl.org\/\">Georgia Interfaith Power and Light<\/a> is persuading its 120 Christian, Jewish and Buddhist congregations to power down on March 29. The group is part of a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregenerationproject.org\/\">national campaign<\/a> led by Rev. Sally Bingham, that assists congregations in going green by doing free energy audits and offering teaching resources on the environment as a faith issue.<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/news\/environment\/where-being-green-goes-beyond-pieties\/2008\/03\/27\/1206207300940.html\">Sydney<\/a>, St. Mark&#8217;s Anglican Church has been transitioning into an &#8220;eco-church&#8221; since Earth Hour 2007.<\/p>\n<p>Photo credit: <a href=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1024\/632530852_56ffb00935.jpg?v=0\">Flickr<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Candlelit services are nothing new for religious organizations. So when businesses, governments, and individuals turn off their lights Saturday at 8 p.m. local time, churches, synagogues, and mosques will be&nbsp;[ &hellip; ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123,"featured_media":17467,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[531,399,417],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Jesus Unplugged: Religious Groups Participate in Earth Hour 2008 &#8226; Sustainablog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/articles\/jesus-unplugged-religious-groups-participate-in-earth-hour-2008\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Jesus Unplugged: Religious Groups Participate in Earth Hour 2008 &#8226; Sustainablog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Candlelit services are nothing new for religious organizations. 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