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...October 1997, the Rev. Sally Bingham of San Francisco's Grace Cathedral and Steve MacAusland, a Dedham, Mass., video producer, conceived of a ministry in the marketplace that could turn Sunday sermons about God's green earth into here-and-now environmentalism. Why stop at Ezekiel 36: 5?God lambastes all Edom for plundering his land?when they could actually persuade the faithful to stop their plundering and buy electricity from nonpolluting sources? In this way, they could ease their conscience and help limit the damage done by fossil-fuel-powered plants, which produce about 40% of U.S. carbon dioxide...
...Neither Bingham nor MacAusland recalls which of them named their group. It's almost as if some deity simply declared 'Let there be ?Episcopal Power & Light,'' and there was Episcopal Power & Light. In a three-year altar-to-altar crusade, they persuaded 30 churches and hundreds of households to buy clean electricity from a company called Green Mountain Energy, only to watch their work?and Green Mountain's nearly 60,000 California customers?smote by deregulation's failure...
...serve about 600,000 nationwide. That's pretty low wattage, but with opec threatening to hike oil prices again, the future is, well, brightening. This year, an additional 1,000 MW of green power will come online, thanks to a doubling of wind capacity. Green-energy believers such as Bingham and MacAusland will just have to pray the politicians won't screw it up again and will let the people have the right to pick their power...
...Brynner, and The Hook may be the first indie-rock pirate chantey. That aside, Malkmus has grown as a songwriter. Jenny and the Ess-Dog is a churning rocker that chronicles a doomed hippie romance, while Church on White, written for his late friend, the novelist Robert Bingham, has Malkmus genuinely emoting: "All you ever wanted/ was everything/ and everything/ plus the truth/ I only poured you/ half a life." It's the saddest, prettiest song in a career so far marked by cynicism, and one hopes it's a hint of what is to come...
...task now falls upon Knowles to name a successor to the position. Harvard has only had six athletic directors since the position was first filled by William J. Bingham '16 in 1926. Knowles will quickly move to form a committee that will conduct a national search for his replacement...