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In Your Congregation
- Find out
what your congregation or denomination is
doing about environmental issues. Join in with
any efforts that are already ongoing. If you
would like to see your congregation do more,
use this website and the websites of the partner
groups to find out what resources are available
that are appropriate to your congregation's
religious tradition and situation.
- See examples
of what other congregations have done.
- Find resources
for getting your congregation engaged in environmental
teaching and action.
In Your Community
- Learn more about a particular environmental
issue that interests you.
- Scan the newspapers, surf the web, visit
the library, contact local environmental
organizations or government agencies that
deal with that issue.
- Find out
about how different environmental issues
have been addressed by people of faith and
faith communities.
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- Find out what local, state, or national
laws or regulations are being proposed that
involved that issue, and write to the appropriate
government officials and to your local newspaper
to express your own views. Don’t be
afraid to mention that you are concerned
about environmental problems and their impacts
on people because of your faith, but don’t
talk as if your faith gives you all the
answers. Learn
about how to be an advocate.
- Get involved in local efforts to address
environmental problems through local community,
religious, or environmental organizations.
- Get together with neighbors or members of
your congregation to support each other in reducing
your households’ environmental impact.
See the website for EnAct
Environmental Action Teams (Madison, Wisconsin)
for an example of how this can be done.
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