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Coalition for the Environment

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Mission Statement

The Orange County Interfaith Coalition for the Environment (OCICE) educates, raises awareness and empowers people to actively protect and preserve creation through responsible stewardship.

OCICE consists of representatives from a variety of environmental and faith-based communities who share common concerns regarding the state of the earth.

OCICE began in 1996 as a project of Green Networking of Orange County and became established as a local 501 (C) (3) non-profit organization in 2000.

Members of OCICE believe that caring for the environment is a spiritual matter for all faiths. We strive to assist congregations in their efforts to become more involved in environmental activism.
OCICE Board
Officers
Board Members
Co-Chair: Margaret Henke
Rev. Susan Chamberlain
Co-Chair: Sherri Loveland
Joyce Fennelly
Treasurer: Alfred Benoit
Mike Kilroy
Secretary: Margaret Mapes
Nancy King
Carole Thomas
Advisors to the Board
Ed Begley, Jr., Actor, Environmental Activist and Founder of Begley's Best, environmentally friendly household products.
Stephanie Barger: Executive Director, Earth Resource Foundation
Rev. Carole Kostura
Rev. Adelia Sandoval
Ben Savill
Committee Members
Marjorie Benet
Sheila Clause
Jennifer Hartman
Dean Inada
Nancy Ivary
Asha Knott
Terri Neal
Lynne Pendleton
Ron Steward
Kendra Sturgeon
Mark Tabbert
OCICE Partners
COEJLSC - Coalition on the Environment and Jewish Life, Southern California
L. A. Interfaith Environmental Council - This organization is part of COEJLSC.
Orange County Green Vision Working Group - This is a coalition of OC environmental groups that work together for a common goal.

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"Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not every man's greed.

Mahatma Ghandi

 

Tip of the Month

Make the switch to re-usable (cloth) tote bags for all of your shopping needs.  If you use a cloth bag, you can save 6 bags each week.  That's 24 bags a month, 288 bags a year, and 22, 176 bags in an average life-time.  If just 1 out of 5 people in our country did this we would save 1,330,560,000,000 bags over our life time!

Plastic bags are made from a non-renewable natural resource: petroleum. Consequently, the manufacturing of plastic bags contributes to the diminishing availability of our natural resources and the damage to the environment from the extraction of petroleum. At the same time, plastics are hazardous to produce; the pollution from plastic production is harmful to the environment. Finally, most plastic bags are made of polyethylene - more commonly known as polythene - they are hazardous to manufacture and are said to take up to 1,000 years to decompose on land and 450 years in water.

To join the Campaign Against the Plastic Plague, visit Earth Resource Foundation's website.