Green Faith Alliance of Arkansas

Green Faith Alliance Meetings: usually the first Monday of each month at 5:30 p.m.

Pulaski Heights United Methodist Church, Woodlawn and Monroe in Hillcrest.

Monday, September 14, 2009, 5:30 p.m. - Speaker: Patty Barker, Policy Director, The Arkansas Public Policy Panel

Monday, October 5, 2009, 5:30 p.m. - Topic: Green Jobs and the New Energy Economy

Monday, November 2, 2009, 5:30 p.m. - Topic: Solar Energy

Monday, January 4, 2010, 5:30 p.m.

Caring for Creation Film Series

Wednesday, Nov. 4: Fighting Goliath

Wednesday, Nov. 11: Coal Country

Wednesday, Nov. 18: Why Bangladesh Matters

May 2 Statewide Conference 2009:

• Wesley Hall at Pulaski Heights United Methodist Church 
• 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.
• Morning Speaker: Dr. Matthew Sleeth, author of "Serve God, Save the Planet" http://www.blessed-earth.org/
• Gourmet Lunch from Local Farmers, Prepared by Chef Shane Henderson (Argenta Market)
• Afternoon Speaker: Rabbi Larry Troster, nationally recognized religious-environmental leader http://www.greenfaith.org/
• Closing Session: Bill Bradlee, Interfaith Power and Light www.TheRegenerationProject.org
  
• $40 each ($25 per student), includes lunch
• 14 Breakout Sessions
• Send checks to Environmental Conference, Pulaski Heights United Methodist Church, 4823 Woodlawn, Little Rock, AR 72205. Mark your check "green" in the lower left corner.
• Sponsors include:

  Regional Recycling & Waste Reduction District

  Pulaski Heights United Methodist Church

  Pulaski Heights United Methodist Women

  Lakewood United Methodist Church

  Second Presbyterian Church

  Black Community Developers

  Hendrix College Chaplain’s Office

  Hendrix College Miller Center

  Hendrix College Jewish Cultural Center

  Faulkner County Supporters of Sustainable Communities

  Village Commons
  

  Christ Episcopal Church

  Central District Board of Missions of United Methodist Arkansas Conference

  Memorials Committee, Pulaski Heights United Methodist Church

  Sierra Club

  Jewish Federation

  Interfaith Power and Light

  Arkansas Earth Day
  

  Forum Class at Conway First United Methodist Church

  Pairs Class at St. James United Methodist Church
  

  First Presbyterian Church

  Salt of the Earth Landscaping
  

  
  

  
  

  14 BREAKOUT SESSIONS on May 2: Select two to attend - one in the morning and one in the afternoon.

  1) Professor Courtney Hatch (Hendrix College) on global health, climate change and the current environmental crisis (morning session only)
  

  2) State Representative Kathy Webb on Legislative Updates

  3) Pulaski County Judge Buddy Villines on Public Policy

  4) John Roberts (Regional Waste Management) on "Partnerships: Recycling and the Community

  5) Martha Jane Murray (Clinton  Foundation’s Climate Change Initiative) on Greener Good: Achieving Social Environmental Justice Through an Employer-Based Energy Benefit Program

  6) Annice Steadman (Central High School) on Science Instruction in Public Schools

  7) Professor Robert Williamson (Hendrix College) on Biblical basis for environmental stewardship

  8) Rev. Malik Saafir (Hoover United Methodist Church) on Giving Voice to Social Justice

  9) Julie Hendrix (Sustainable Alternatives) on"An Overview of Natural Burial, Including Implications and Options for Arkansans"
  

  10)Robert Huston on "Why a Clean Environment Should Matter to Sportsmen"
  

  11) Sylvia Blain (Local Food Initiative) on Local Food Systems

  12) Shelley Green (Arkansas Earth Institute) on Voluntary Simplicity, Practicing Ecology in Our Daily Lives

  13) Rod Bryan (lobbyist) on Water Resources

  14) Rev. Hezekiah Stewart (Watershed Project) on Caring for Outcasts