Loading...Renowned Episcopal priest and interfaith advocate for the environment, Sally Bingham will be in Louisville this week to be the keynote speaker for an interfaith pilgrimage Wednesday, April 7, but also will speak at a fundraiser for the Greening West Louisville initiative, Tuesday, April 6.
Bingham, a homemaker turned priest, has won numerous awards and national recognition for developing a new strategy to combat global warming: organize churches, synagogues, Buddhist temples and mosques to buy "green" electricity generated by wind and solar power, to reduce energy consumption in their buildings, and to preach the message that as stewards of God's creation, congregants have a religious and moral obligation to protect the environment.
Fundraiser at St. Matthew’s
Her first public appearance will be at 7 p.m. (ET) Tuesday, April 6, at St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church, 330 N. Hubbards Lane, on behalf of a fundraiser dinner for “Greening West Louisville,” an environmental advocacy initiative.
All of Louisville’s coal-burning power plants are located in western Louisville, and pollution from those plants adversely affects the area’s water and air quality, “Greening West Louisville” reports. Its goal is to reduce energy consumption, educate the congregations about the environmental costs of energy consumption, and educate members about reducing their own energy use.
Seating at the dinner in St. Matthew’s Saints Hall is strictly limited, so reservations must be made by 8 a.m. (ET) Monday morning, April 5. To reserve a place, contact //www.kentuckyipl.org/DinnerWithSally.html or Jerry Cappel at jcappel@stmatt-ky.org. [Clergy and other environmental leaders in Episcopal parishes are also invited to a lunch with Bingham from 11 a.m. -1 p.m. (ET) on Wednesday, April 7, at. St. Matthew's. Those wishing to attend are to contact Cappel by 8 am Tuesday, April 6. Lunch is free, but donations accepted to cover lunch]
Pilgrimage keynote event
Her other public appearance will be on the evening of Wednesday, April 7, when she will speak the keynote event of the pilgrimage at Adath Jeshurun synagogue, 2401 Woodbourne Ave. Beginning at 7 p.m. (ET), she will talk on the need for interfaith cooperation in efforts to achieve and maintain a healthy environment.
The "2010 Green Pilgrimage: Walking the Olmsted Parks and the Parkways that Connect Them” is taking more than 30 Louisville citizens on a 45-mile, four-day journey, celebrating the beauty in our midst and asking ourselves what we can do to improve the quality of life in Louisville Metro.
The pilgrimage is sponsored by Interfaith Paths to Peace, the Olmsted Parks Conservancy, the Peace and Justice Division of the Episcopal Diocese of Kentucky, Adath Jeshurun Synagogue, Kentucky Interfaith Power and Light, the Passionist Earth & Spirit Center and more than two dozen other businesses and religious organizations. For more details about the pilgrimage visit www.paths2peace.org.
