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Green churches.


Faith and the Common Good (FCG FCG First Consulting Group
FCG Foreign Clearance Guide
FCG Fatigue Crack Growth
FCG Flux Compression Generator
FCG Guinean Civic Forum (Guinea-Bissau)
FCG Fisheries Consultative Group (ASEAN-SEAFDEC) 
), a national organization that encourages inter-faith action on social and environmental concerns, has recently received funding from the Ontario Ontario, city, United States
Ontario, city (1990 pop. 133,179), San Bernardino co., S Calif., near Los Angeles, in a region of vineyards; inc. 1891.
 Power Authority's Conservation Fund.

FCG's Greening Sacred Spaces sacred space,
n space—tangible or otherwise—that enables those who acknowledge and accept it to feel reverence and connection with the spiritual.
 Phase II program was one of seven conservation-related projects chosen from 11 applications; the projects will receive almost $1.5 million from the Fund.

FCG's project builds on the success of an earlier project by piloting the development of a "package deal" of energy conservation services for faith communities that want to become "green," including energy audits and retrofits. (Some Anglican An·gli·can  
adj.
1. Of or characteristic of the Church of England or any of the churches related to it in origin and communion, such as the Protestant Episcopal Church.

2. Of or relating to England or the English.

n.
 churches have already used FCG services; for more information, see FCG's Web site, http://faithcommongood.net)

The Ontario Power Authority The Ontario Power Authority (OPA) was established through the Electricity Restructuring Act, 2004 (Bill 100). It operates independently and as a non-profit corporation. Licensed by the Ontario Energy Board, it reports to the legislature through the Ministry of Energy (Ontario).  launched the Conservation Fund in 2005 to help finance electricity reduction and conservation education projects in the province.

Three rounds of funding will be awarded by the Fund this year; the application deadline for the next round of awards is Sept. 6. More information can be found at www.powerauthority.on.ca/ cfund.
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Title Annotation:CANADA BRIEFS
Publication:Anglican Journal
Date:Sep 1, 2007
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