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Green Steward
The quarterly
newsletter of the Environmental Concerns Working Group
Shining Examples
Energy Conservation Opportunities in the Metropolitan
Chicago Synod
The Work of the Justice Team’s Environmental Concerns
Working Group
1992 – 2007
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New Donations to Loan Fund
The Environmental Concerns Working Group and the Metropolitan Chicago Synod wish to express their sincere gratitude to two area congregations for their generous donations adding to the synod’s Energy Revolving Loan Fund. Pilgrim Lutheran Church of Chicago, having repaid a loan for a major lighting project, chose in January to convert an accidental overpayment of $313 into a donation to the loan fund. In addition, Our Saviour’s Lutheran Church, in Arlington Heights, voted recently to contribute $2,000 from its endowment fund to the synod loan fund to help expand its outreach. Our Saviour’s, like Pilgrim, used the loan fund for a major energy-saving lighting retrofit project within the last five years. We appreciate the generosity of both of these wonderful congregations, just as we have celebrated their achievements in implementing their environmentally responsible lighting projects.
Synod Receives Grant to
Improve Energy Efficiency
Photos
From left to right: Metropolitan Chicago Synod, ELCA,
former Bishop Paul R. Landahl, Kenneth A. Westlake-Chief, EPA Environmental Planning and Evaluation Branch, James Schwab, Chair of the Metropolitan Chicago Synod Environmental Concerns Working Group, James E. Mann, Executive Director of the Illinois Clean Energy
Community Foundation, and Michael J. Stanch of Stanch Lighting and Energy at the MCS offices for the presentation of a $65,000 grant to increase energy efficiency of church facilities. On January 23, 2002, the
Illinois Clean Energy Community Foundation (ICECF) awarded its first-ever round of grants to 28 organizations around the state. The grants total $2.1 million and concentrate on using cost savings from energy efficiency
investments to promote economic development. (Click here for the complete press release from ICECF.)
On February 11, 2002, James E. Mann, Executive Director of the Illinois Clean Energy Community Foundation, along with Kenneth A. Westlake, Chief of the EPA's Environmental Planning & Evaluation Branch, James Schwab, Chair of the MCS Environmental Concerns Working Group, and Michael J. Stanch of Stanch Lighting and Energy were at the synod offices to present a $65,000 check for a grant that was awarded by the ICECF to increase energy efficiency of church facilities in the Metropolitan Chicago Synod, ELCA. Bishop Paul R. Landahl
accepted the check on behalf of the synod.
Zion Lutheran Church - an article about an MCS congregation committed to practicing good environmental and financial stewardship.
Click here to access an article in the May 2000 issue of The Lutheran entitled: "Power play - Congregations slash their utility bills — and contribute to a cleaner planet"
Metro Chicago Synod - Letting Our Light Shine More Efficiently
Applying for a Loan
Stanch Lighting and Energy
Links
Environmental Stewardship and Hunger Education - ELCA
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