Founder of The Regeneration Project, Reverend Sally Bingham
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Sally Bingham
Environmentalist
BIO
The Rev. Sally Grover Bingham is a native of California. She is Priest in the Diocese of California currently working as the Environmental Minister at Grace Cathedral in San Francisco. She has been the chair of the Episcopal Diocesan Commission for the Environment for the last ten years. Sally has been active in the environmental community for twenty-five years and serves on the national board of both Environmental Defense and the Environmental Working Group. She also serves on the National Advisory Board for the Union of Concerned Scientist and Environmental Commons.
She graduated from the University of San Francisco in 1989 having gone back to school after raising a family. She entered seminary with the intention of furthering her education, but discovered a profound call to Holy Orders. She was ordained to the Priesthood in 1997.
She is the founder and executive director of The Regeneration Project a nonprofit ministry dedicated to deepening the connection between faith and the environment. Currently, the primary focus of TRP is Interfaith Power and Light, a campaign who's mission is to mobilize a religious response to global warming. The Interfaith Power and Light Program is in 23 states around the US including Alaska and Hawaii and Washington DC.
Sally has brought widespread attention to the linkage between ecological issues and the Christian Faith. In July 2001 Sally received the Green Power Leadership Pilot Award from the Center for Resource Solutions, the US Environmental Protection Agency and the US Dept of Energy. The World Wildlife Fund recognized the Regeneration Project as a Sacred Gift to the Planet in November 2000 at a ceremony in Kathmandu, Nepal. The Regeneration Project received the international Global Energy Award 2002. This "Energy Oscar" was presented to Rev. Bingham in Austria by President Gorbachev. In July 2003, Sally was honored by the Bay Area Air Quality Board as a "Clean Air Champion."
In 2006 Senator Barbara Boxer awarded her Conservation Champion Award to Rev. Bingham. In May 2007, Sally will receive the US EPA Climate Protection Award. (She has been a speaker at a diverse selection of events ranging from the Mid-Atlantic Energy Efficiency annual event to Samford College Campus with E. O. Wilson).
Sally has three children, Sarah, Stephen and Lock. She is an active and competitive tennis player, loves to hike and be outdoors. A cancer survivor, she brings her experience and passion to her ministry, connecting human health and the environment.
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