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At midnight on July 21, millions of Harry Potter fans across the world (including me) lined up to buy their copy of the seventh book in the series, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Fortunately, the pages of their new tome were made of sustainable paper products. 30% came from recycled paper, and another 65% of the paper came from wood certified by the Forest Stewardship Council, which certifies wood harvested without decimating forest ecosystems. 12 million copies of the book have made it to stores and eager readers hands, a record first-printing. Thank goodness Scholastic, Inc. made the right choice to consider the ecological impact of their product!

The York Center Green Fair I spoke at last weekend made it into local news, the Lombard Spectator, in a cute little story about my Pastor Christy Waltersdorff. Isn’t she adorable!

 “This congregation is very involved in a lot of environmental issues,” she said. “If we believe God created the world and gave us stewardship of it, I can’t imagine why people would not be out taking a stand.”

The Green Fair featured presentations on various environmental topics and also highlighted the church’s commitment to reduce CO2 emissions by 80 percent by the year 2050, said Loren Habegger, a church member and the person Waltersdorff credits with coming up with the idea of a Green Fair.

That’s really quite an impressive commitment.  Too bad this climate crisis we’re living in will require nothing less.