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globalgood.org, a resource portal for Episcopalians working together to support the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and to reduce global poverty, seeks to help you engage these efforts, which frame the justice and peace work that General Convention has designated as the Episcopal Church’s top mission priority for 2007-2009. Theological context and practical resources are highlighted throughout this site -- underscoring the MDGs as an action plan affirmed by nearly all of the world’s countries and leading development institutions. ------------------------------------- DID YOU KNOW . . . November 6 is International Day for Preventing the Exploitation of the Environment in War and Armed Conflict?
On November 5, 2001 the United Nations General Assembly declared Novemebr 6 of each year as the International Day for Preventing the Exploitation of the Environment in War and Armed Conflict. In taking this action, it considered that damage to the environment in times of armed conflict impairs ecosystems and natural resources long after the period of conflict, often extending beyond the limits of national territores and the present generation. It also recalled the UN Millennium Declaration, which emphasized the necessity of working to protect our common environment. 
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Martha Gardner on environmental ministries
  
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