Monday, March 5, 2012

Strawberries meet carbon footprints at first annual 'summit'

Kitchener, Ont.

Strawberries and whipped cream were followed by brainstorming for environmental action during the Strawberry Summit held at Rockway Mennonite Church last month.

On June 21, about two dozen Mennonites from Waterloo Region gathered in the church's backyard for a time of socializing and strategizing about how they could work together to promote faithful responses to the environmental crisis.

"There's so much gloom about the environment these days," commented Scott Brubaker-Zehr, one of the organizers. "We wanted to deal with the real issues, but we also wanted to set a tone of hopefulness and camaraderie. That's what the strawberries were all …

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