Reverend Canon Sally Grover Bingham
The Reverend Canon Sally Grover Bingham, an Episcopal priest and Canon for the Environment in the Diocese of California, was one of the first faith leaders to fully recognize climate change as a moral issue. She is Founder and President Emeritus of The Regeneration Project and its Interfaith Power & Light campaign, which currently has 22,000 congregation members in forty states. Rev. Bingham recently retired from the national board of the Environmental Defense Fund. She is on the board of Pacific Forest Trust and on the advisory board of both the Union of Concerned Scientists and Climate One. She has received many awards including in 2012, the Rachel Carson Women in Conservation Award from the Audubon Society, the Life Time Achievement Award from the Festival of Faiths, and the Bishop of California Green Cross Award. Rev. Bingham is the lead author of Love God Heal Earth, a collection of 21 essays on environmental stewardship by religious leaders, published by St. Lynn’s Press.
See Also
HR!Day153 - The Vanishing Garden: Religion and the Fate of the Earth - Humanity Rising Convener - The Vanishing Garden: Religion and the Fate of the Earth
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