Rev. Sally Bingham and Jeff Mendelsohn’s Cutting-Edge Green Crusades

Rev. Sally Bingham of Interfaith Power & Light speaks to “Green is Good” to about her organization, Interfaith Power & Light, a faith-based response to global warming that incorporates more than 10,000 congregations.

“We’d like to see the religious community leading the environmental movement,” Bingham says. Based at San Francisco’s Grace Cathedral, Rev. Bingham has been speaking on the ties between faith and the environment all over the world, and authored Love God Heal Earth, which brings together 21 spiritual leaders to make their case for tying religion and environmental stewardship together.

Jeff Mendelsohn founded New Leaf Paper in 1998, long before the green revolution. Mendelsohn entered the paper business in 1991 in New York, but his thought process shifted green soon after, as he was itching to do something with less environmental impact.

“New Leaf is the fruition of my original vision,” Mendelsohn says. “By 1998, we wanted to start fresh, turn over a new leaf, move to San Francisco and launch post-consumer paper products.”

Today, New Leaf is one of the leading producers of post-consumer paper products and FSC-certified fibers.

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