Churches Caring for Creation – An Idea Exchange (Hamilton, ON)

Deborah Lindeman is an avid birdwatcher, naturalist, and native plant gardener. She is a member of the Hamilton Naturalists’ Club and volunteers at the Royal Botanical Gardens with their natural land restoration and bird censuses. For the past couple years, she has participated in the Creation Care group of Trinity Lutheran Church and has used this platform to share her concerns for the preservation and restoration of Hamilton’s natural spaces through articles, talks, and birdwatching outings.

Larry McClung recently retired from a 44-year career in engineering, virtually all of which was spent in the fields of energy conservation and renewable energy. Trained at McMaster, after spending much of his career in Ottawa he now lives in Ancaster, in a home heated by an air-source heat pump. Some highlights from Larry’s career include designing numerous off-grid solar power systems, a leading role in the design of the solar-heated Drake Landing Solar Community (Okotoks, AB, 2007), helping to design Canada’s first Net Zero Energy townhomes (Kanata, ON, 2016) and serving as a technical advisor on thousands of MW’s of solar power generation plants across Canada and the United States, including roughly one-third of the solar power plants now operating in Ontario.

Water, watersheds and all things therein have been an important part of Mark Hartley’s life, both personally and professionally, for over 40 years. His life changed dramatically 15 years ago when he started following Christ. As a watershed disciple, he is passionate about spreading the message (workshops, discipleship groups) of the immediate need for creation care (delegation, tragedy, restoration) and its importance as a gospel issue.