How Can I Become Involved?
Faith communities' engagement with environmental issues means something different to every person. Each of us brings our own particular vantage point, lifetime of experiences and personal and professional resources to the question, 'What is at stake for me in today’s planetary crisis? What dimensions of this crisis touch what I feel most deeply, hold most dearly, in my own well-loved community and place on earth? How shall I respond to the glory and the grief of the earth and my fellow human beings? What part does religion play in all this for me?' One way to approach these questions is to consider one's own role in society or in a faith community. Citizen and family member; teacher and student; clergy and layperson; businessperson, scientist, scholar, journalist or environmental professional -- each has a unique opportunity to contribute to a better understanding of the relationship between faith and the environment, or to nurture richer, more fruitful expressions of the calling to care for creation.
Local high school students from an ecology workshop gather at the borders of Queens and Brooklyn in New York City. They monitor the water quality and marine life of Newtown Creek, one of the most polluted waterways in America. Twice as many barrels of oil have been dumped here as in the Exxon Valdez spill.
 
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