Members of the Bishop’s Commission on Climate Change visited the Diamond Bar offices of the South Coast Air Quality Management District (South Coast AQMD) on March 24 to learn more about the agency’s work and explore ways the Diocese of Los Angeles might support clean air efforts across Southern California. Bishop John Harvey Taylor said […]
Adding liaisons in all congregations to help “co-create and nurture a climate-conscious and creation-attuned diocese” is a key goal affirmed by the Bishop’s Commission on Climate Change (BCCC) during its Feb. 28 retreat meeting at St. Paul’s Commons in Echo Park. The in-person meeting brought together 12 participants from across the Diocese of Los Angeles, […]
Some 250 voices from around the Los Angeles diocese joined the poignant strains of violin, cello and organ, Sunday, Jan. 11 at All Saints Church in Pasadena, in the ancient Anglican prayer practice of Evensong, singing of sorrow, faith, resilience, renewed commitment and remembrance, one year after “once-in-a-century” wildfires destroyed area lives, homes, schools and […]
A main course of information about the liturgical Season of Creation was served up by the Bishop’s Commission on Climate Change (BCCC) team at yesterday’s Climate Kitchen meeting, along with ‘side dishes’ of creation care projects for inspiration, and a ‘recipe swap’ to share ideas for engaging in the Season of Creation. Climate Kitchen, said […]
The Polluters Pay Superfund act (SB 684/ AB 1243), designed to make fossil fuel companies pay for their share of climate change related damages, will soon come before the California State Assembly and Senate. The Bishop’s Commission on Climate Change (BCCC) officially endorsed the bill and took part in organizing the May 4 ‘Climate Justice […]
The Bishop’s Commission on Climate Change (BCCC) is asking all congregations to assign or elect a liaison, in a new initiative to share and discuss creation care projects and create direct communication among congregational “green teams” or creation care ministries, and with the BCCC. Mahri Mendenhall, BCCC member and parishioner at Church of the Epiphany, […]
If the Great Hall at St. Paul’s Commons smelled faintly of compost Sunday, April 6, the crowd gathered there for Seeds of Hope’s first Climate week event didn’t seemed to mind. Attendees were checking out the vendor tables, getting bags of soil from LA Compost, seeds from Black Thumb Farms, signing the Plant Based Treaty, […]
[The Episcopal News] – One of the most effective ways people of faith can help combat climate change is to start talking about it, in ways that connect people’s personal experiences with hope and action, atmospheric scientist Katharine Hayhoe told a Nov. 20 webinar hosted by the Bishop’s Commission on Climate Change. As the earth […]
[The Episcopal News – December 3, 2024] The Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles, in collaboration with the Dr. Lucy Jones Center for Science and Society, has submitted a grant proposal to fund the creation of a series of “resiliency hubs,” the basis of an eventual resiliency collaborative, in Riverside County. The hubs would provide […]
Earlier this year, former Episcopal Church Presiding Bishop Michael Curry named 17 delegates to represent the Episcopal Church at the 29th session of the Conference of Parties of the U.N Framework Convention on Climate Change, also known as COP29. The church is sending a small in-person delegation of three representatives to the event, which will […]
