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October’s Lansing Lee Conference at Kanuga Conferences will be an insightful discussion on how people of faith can find practical and spiritual responses to environmental sustainability.
Keynote speaker for the Oct 17-19 event is the Rev. Canon Sally Bingham, founder and president of the environmental ministry The Regeneration Project and its energy conservation initiative Interfaith Power and Light. Through a national network of more than 10,000 congregations in 29 states, she has mobilized thousands of religious people to put their faith into action through energy stewardship.
Bingham serves as the environmental minister at Grace Episcopal Cathedral in San Francisco and is regarded as one of the first faith leaders to fully recognize global warming as a core moral issue. She said a recent visit to the Gulf of Mexico made the need for more environmental education and personal involvement all the more imperative for the future.
Other informative workshops will further explore the connection between religious convictions and caring for creation.
–Jaime Ager of Hickory Nut Gap Farm in Fairview, N.C., will bring a farmer’s perspective to the discussion.
–Mark Robertson, executive director of the Nature Conservancy of South Carolina, will talk about the consequences of climate change and how people of faith can react.
–Cindy Shea, executive director of the Sustainability Office at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, will share innovative sustainability practices that can be put into place by organizations of any size.
-Kanuga sustainability coordinator Jane Vogelman will talk about projects the conference center has undertaken to make its programs and facilities more environmentally-friendly for the more than 25,000 guests who visit for camps, conferences, retreats and other events each year.
Affiliated with the Episcopal Church since 1928, Kanuga is a 1,400-acre camp and conference center in the Blue Ridge Mountains near Hendersonville, N.C. Group discounts or financial aid are available to those who qualify. For more information, visit www.kanuga.org or call 828-692-9136.