Lipscomb's green leader attends Al Gore's <em>Inconvenient</em> slide show training

Janel Shoun | 

Earlier this month, the executive director of Lipscomb University’s Institute for Sustainable Practice was part of the inaugural group of faith leaders to participate in one of Al Gore’s climate change training seminars, made famous through the Academy Award-winning documentary An Inconvenient Truth.

To see the The Tennessean article on Al Gore’s October slideshow (with quotes by Dodd Galbreath) click here.

Conducted by the Nobel Prize-winning Gore himself, in Nashville Oct. 9-11, this seminar was the first The Climate Project (TCP) has held designed for the faith community.

“He was very transparent. He comes at this from a very real place in his heart,” said G. Dodd Galbreath, director of Lipscomb’s Institute for Sustainable Practice and a sustainability consultant and leader in the local community.

Galbreath himself has taken the opportunity to speak with churches about the benefits of environmental sustainability in the past, but now he is armed with 400 slides provided through The Climate Project for future presentations.

In fact, Galbreath had to pledge to make more presentations, using the slideshow, and he plans to hold presentations for students and faculty in the coming months.

“I think humanity’s search to understand our carbon footprint will greatly assist and support our evangelical footprint or our faith footprint on earth,” said Galbreath. “We can reduce our carbon footprint while increasing our faith footprint. I think they are that interrelated.”