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Earth Week features Christian environmentalist
April 13, 2007
Peter Illyn, the founder and executive director of a Christian environmental organization, will speak as part of PLU’s Earth week celebration on Tuesday, April 17 at 8 p.m. in Xavier 201.
Earth Week officially began on Sunday and continues throughout the week to Saturday, April 21. Events are planned on each day of the week.
Illyn founded the organization Restoring Eden in Vancouver, Wash., in 2001. The organization is a grassroots environmental movement within the church, and it encourages faithful stewardship of the natural world as a biblical and moral value, according to the organization’s Web site.
Unlike traditional church ministry, the focus of Restoring Eden is less on membership and programs, and more about conversation and community. The organization’s work focuses on nature appreciation, environmental stewardship and public advocacy.
Illyn is an evangelical minister, and he spent nine years as a pastor in Foursquare churches in Portland and Yakima. He also holds a master’s degree in social marketing, and he has worked as the Northwest representative for the Evangelical Environmental Network and for Target Earth.
Illyn and Restoring Eden have been featured on the national stage, such as on The Newshour with Jim Lehrer, CBS Evening News, CNN, Outside Magazine, Utne Reader, Charisma and Christianity Today. In addition, numerous local newspapers, Christian newspapers and radio talk shows have interviewed him.
Learn more about Restoring Eden at www.restoringeden.org.
Additional Earth Week activities include:
For more information, visit www.plu.edu/~grean or email grean@plu.edu.
Illyn founded the organization Restoring Eden in Vancouver, Wash., in 2001. The organization is a grassroots environmental movement within the church, and it encourages faithful stewardship of the natural world as a biblical and moral value, according to the organization’s Web site.
Unlike traditional church ministry, the focus of Restoring Eden is less on membership and programs, and more about conversation and community. The organization’s work focuses on nature appreciation, environmental stewardship and public advocacy.
Illyn is an evangelical minister, and he spent nine years as a pastor in Foursquare churches in Portland and Yakima. He also holds a master’s degree in social marketing, and he has worked as the Northwest representative for the Evangelical Environmental Network and for Target Earth.
Illyn and Restoring Eden have been featured on the national stage, such as on The Newshour with Jim Lehrer, CBS Evening News, CNN, Outside Magazine, Utne Reader, Charisma and Christianity Today. In addition, numerous local newspapers, Christian newspapers and radio talk shows have interviewed him.
Learn more about Restoring Eden at www.restoringeden.org.
Additional Earth Week activities include:
- On Sunday, a group of volunteers worked at PLU’s Community Garden and learned tips from a master gardener from the City of Tacoma.
- “Trash Bash” in Red Square on Monday from noon to 2:30 p.m. The event will demonstrate how much waste we throw away that is actually recyclable.
- Showing of “Kilowatt Ours,” a film that outlines practical solutions to climate change, on Wednesday, April 18 at 8 p.m. in Ingram Hall.
- Student Kyle Duba will discuss alternative fuels for automobiles on Wednesday, April 18 at 4:30 p.m. in Morken 103. Duba recently began running his car on bio-diesel fuel.
- Jon Robins will speak about solar panels on Thursday, April 19 at 6 p.m. in room 219 of the Hauge Administration Building. Robins and his wife, PLU business professor Fern Zabriskie, outfitted their cabin with solar panels and now use only the sun’s energy for electrical power. A work party will help Citizens for a Healthy Bay restore Middle Waterway on Saturday, April 21 from 11:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. If interested in participating, contact GREAN at www.plu.edu/~grean.
For more information, visit www.plu.edu/~grean or email grean@plu.edu.