Episcopal Life Online Newslink August 10, 2007
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Today's ELO Newslink includes:
* TOP STORY - General Seminary begins major environmental initiative, converts to energy-efficient geothermal system * ARTS - Dramatic reading brings Spanish, English-speaking congregations closer
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TOP STORIES
[GTS] The General Theological Seminary (GTS) in the Chelsea area of Manhattan, New York, began construction on what is perhaps the largest geothermal project in the Northeast -- converting the school's heating-cooling system, now powered by fossil fuel, to a new energy-efficient geothermal system.
Seminary staff members and executives from engineering and architectural firms were on hand August 8 beneath a two-story-high drilling rig to exchange congratulations and share the story with the media.
Workmen started up the rig, raising its massive drilling assembly to the full height. Beginning with 10th Avenue on the seminary's west side, a series of about 20 wells will be drilled beneath the sidewalks surrounding the campus, tapping the ground water that flows through the island's bedrock. The ground water, which maintains a temperature of about 55 degrees year-round, feeds a heat-pump system which either transfers heat to it during the warm months or pulls heat from it in cold weather. The need for rooftop cooling towers and window air conditioners will be permanently eliminated.
Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_89002_ENG_HTM.htm
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ARTS
Dramatic reading brings Spanish, English-speaking congregations closer
By Episcopal Life staff
[Episcopal Life] A dredge -- a large, hoary implement of rusted steel teeth and netting used to "harrow" crabs out of the depths of Chesapeake Bay -- sits at the base of the large pulpit just below the chancel steps of St. Stephen and the Incarnation Episcopal Church in the heart of the Columbia Heights section of Washington, D.C. To the right and left stand other implements of crabbing: life vests, nets, boots, rain slickers, crab pot markers and the like.
The audience for a dramatic reading of CRABS ALIVE! arrives, composed of St. Stephen's English-speaking parishioners, members of the Spanish-speaking congregation of Misa Alegria (a mission of St. Stephen's), theater enthusiasts from around the metropolitan Washington area and neighborhood people from various walks of life.
At performance time, the sanctuary lights come up and the first of two actors, Greg Coale, steps to the lectern on the left side of the pulpit. Actor Lizet Abrico, steps to a lectern on the audience's right side of the pulpit.
Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81827_88992_ENG_HTM.htm
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