wfn.org | Gibson Receives Restoring Creation Award

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18-June-1997 
GA97066 
 
                  Gibson Receives Restoring Creation Award 
 
                          by Bill Lancaster 
 
SYRACUSE--Dr. William E.  Gibson of the Eco-Justice Project, Ithaca, N.Y., 
received the Founders Award at the Presbyterians for Restoring Creation 
Dinner Tuesday night. 
 
    The proclamation praised him for his major accomplishments in the 
eco-justice field and for serving on the bodies "which have drafted the 
definitive eco-justice statements of our time..."  Gibson was the principal 
author of  "Restoring Creation for Ecology and Justice," a major report 
approved by the General Assembly in 1990 which became the basis for the 
Restoring Creation organization. 
 
    In his response, Gibson thanked others who had made significant 
contributions and said the world's people "are pressed together and will 
thrive together or not at all."  He challenged the group to: lift up the 
ecological factor and not forget the improvement of nature's injuries; name 
the enemy and deepen the debate; act locally and think globally; perfect 
the vision and flesh out the details of the eco-justice community; and 
remember we are living within a story that has a much longer time frame. 
 
    Dr. James Nash, author of the book, "Loving Nature: Ecological 
Integrity and Christian Responsibility," was the evening's speaker.   

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