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Intro: **This summer I participated in an ambassadorial trip of Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary students to our sister seminary in Lusaka, Zambia. We went to learn and to demonstrate our commitment to a reciprocal relationship between our seminaries. Included in our three-week African journey was a trip to Victoria Falls and a safari park in Botswana. It was then that I developed a deep connection to the physical landscape of Africa. **

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Please, please, please take a few moments out of your day to check out this guide to little improvements you can make to render your home more energy efficient! This is a great, easy way to help the environment and this document even arranges the steps in order of Things You Can Do Today, This Week, This Month, and This Year - bite-sized bits.

There is a page on the British Broadcasting (BBC) website called "The Green Room" that keeps an updated running tab of environmental news.

I'm putting it as one of my home pages for the internet so when I open a new window I see the latest environmental headlines.

If anyone else would like to do the same or just check it out, click here.

I was shocked to read an article entitled "China building more power plants" this morning in a headline news link from the New York Times. One of the most alarming facts in the article was that China is now building about two power stations every week, largely as a result of the West moving its greenhouse-gas-emitting industries to developing nations with less pollution regulations and cheaper labor. Basically, we exported our carbon emissions. Unfortunately, these kinds of goods don't just stay in a foriegn country.

Texas Impact is partnering with the Sierra Club to sponsor the Cool Cities campaign in cities throughout Central Texas. Cool Cites is a program inspired by the U.S. Mayor's Climate Protection Plan created to help local areas take the initiative to make our world a safer, more environmentally-conscious place. A website with more information should be up by mid-week next week.