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 Transfiguration Catholic Church and School

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Transfiguration Creation Care Team

God’s People Caring for God’s Creation

 

The Tranny Creation Care Team formally began in October 2007.  We are parishioners who have come together to encourage parish and individual activities promoting stewardship of God’s creation.  We have adopted the US Conference of Catholic Bishop’s model parish framework (http://www.usccb.org/sdwp/ejp/certificate.shtml) to focus our work.  We are currently applying for certification from the USCCB.

 

Contact Deacon Glenn at gskuta@q.com or 651-470-7572 for more info or to join in!

  

Here’s a summary of what we are up to now, and some things we’ve accomplished so far…

 

 

Next meeting:

July 21, 2009

7PM (right after 6:30 Mass)

Meet in Gathering Space and we’ll find a room – please join us!!!

 

 

PAST MEETING NOTES:

1. 10/29/07

2. 12/11/07

3. 1/29/08

4. 2/26/08

5. 3/27/08

6. 4/9/08 GOF summary

7. 5/13/08

8. 6/17/08

9. 7/29/08

10. 9/2/08

11. 9/30/08

12. 2/24/09

13. Sustainable Communities Conf Flyer

14. 3/24/09

15. 5/5/09

16. 6/16/09

 

 

LINKS:

 

Assess Your Impact on Creation:

 

MN Energy Challenge – Get great ideas on ways to save money, cut pollution, and fight Global Warming.  Pledge to take simple energy saving actions and assign your pollution savings to the Transfiguration team!  We are in 6^th place among all congregations – let’s move up!

http://www.mnenergychallenge.org

 

Ecological Footprint Quiz – a rough calculation of the magnitude of our consumption of natural resources to get us thinking http://ecofoot.org/

 

Information on Catholic Stewardship of Creation Initiatives

 

St. Paul/Minneapolis Archdiocese Office of Social Justice/Global Warming Action Team

http://www.osjspm.org/globalwarming.aspx

 

US Conference of Catholic Bishops

 

- “St. Francis” parish recognition – the Tranny creation Care Team is working toward this! http://www.usccb.org/sdwp/ejp/certificate.shtml

 

- Global Warming

http://www.usccb.org/sdwp/ejp/climate/

 

General Info:

 

Minnesota Climate Change Advisory Group

http://www.mnclimatechange.us/index.cfm

 

US Mayors’ Climate Change Agreement – our team is encouraging local mayors to sign

http://www.usmayors.org/climateprotection/ClimateChange.asp

 

Global Warming 101

http://www.globalwarming101.com/

 

Congregations Caring for Creation

http://www.c3mn.net/