http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/21/AR2008022102604.html

Senior Church of England leaders are advocating to parishioners to reduce their carbon footprint for Lent, reflecting an emerging trend of religious organizations embracing climate change mitigation.

Increasingly, religious leaders are coming around to the green way of thinking: The Presbyterian Church asked its members to become carbon-neutral in 2006; the Vatican hosted a climate change conference last year; the Church of England initiated "Shrinking the Footprint," a plan to reduce its carbon usage by 60 percent. And Call to Action, a group founded last year, seeks to make global warming a top political issue for evangelicals; its leaders include the Rev. Joel C. Hunter, president of the Christian Coalition of America, and the Rev. Richard Cizik, vice president for government relations of the National Association of Evangelicals. Some political analysts speculate that "eco-evangelicals" could be a crucial voting bloc in this fall's elections.

Rev. Hunter has publicly admitted that evangelicals are late to embrace climate change. Rev. Cizik is considered responsible for coining the term, "Creation Care," and explaining that tackling climate change is a moral imperative.

The Washington Post, February 24, 2008

Submitted by B. Shapiro