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  • ECEN People: Hans-Jürgen Schorre

    Submitted on 12. Jun 2010

    Hans-Jurgen Schorre

    I came to ECEN in 1999 because I work with church and environment in the National Council of the Lutheran church of Norway. Another person was in at the founding of ECEN in 1998 and he came back and said we should do a similar thing in Norway so we have started an environmental network amongst churches and engaged persons on a similar model in 1999.

  • ECEN People: Margerita Ligoura

    Submitted on 12. Jun 2010

    I only heard of ECEN six months ago but the ECEN Assembly took place in my home town of Volos six years ago. My background is in landscape architecture and floriculture, and as a committed member of my church I wanted to bring my environmental concerns into its work. I have had many discussions with our pastor about how the church could be an example for our city. I am here to find new ideas to put in practice in Volos.

  • ECEN People: Katsiaryna Yeusiukova

    Submitted on 12. Jun 2010

    Katsiaryna Yeusiukova - Belarus

    I trained in international economic relations and worked in construction for 8 years. At the same time I was a member of the Orthodox church and a member of its youth council. Because of the financial crisis there is now very little work in construction so I a month and a half before the ECEN Assembly in Prague I moved into environmental NGO work. It was only then that I heard about ECEN so I came very new to the conference.

  • ECEN People: Henrik Grape

    Submitted on 10. Jun 2010

    I started getting interested in eco-theology in 1979 while studying theology, and was always questioning the way of life and development that everyone was in, and from the theological side that the driver behind changes is based on theology.

    So when I became a pastor in 1987 this was one of the themes I was interested to get into church work.

    In 1992 as a response to the Rio summit an environmental network was set up in Sweden and in 2000 I began to work for this. This was accepted as work which the church should do by the national board of the church.

  • ECEN People: Keld Hansen

    Submitted on 10. Jun 2010

    Keld Hansen

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