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God said: This is the sign of the covenant that I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for all future generations.(Gen 9:12)

Caring for God's Creation

Love and gratitude for God's creation lie deep within religious life. From mountaintops to forests, green pastures to still waters, stars in the sky and lilies of the field, we experience the grace of our Creator and the gift of our presence here.

With Earth in grave environmental peril, many religious Americans are seeking to respond through our faith. Through the many gateways and galleries of this website, we offer resources and accounts of how people of faith are acting upon God's mandate to be stewards of our precious Earth.

Partners in Stewardship

The National Religious Partnership for the Environment is an association of independent faith groups across a broad spectrum: the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, the National Council of Churches U.S.A., the Coalition on the Environment and Jewish Life, and the Evangelical Environmental Network.

Each Partner — in common biblical faith but drawing upon its disctinctive traditions — is undertaking scholarship, leadership training, congregational and agency initiative, and public policy education in service to environmental sustainability and justice. Together, they seek to offer resources of religious life and moral vision to a universal effort to protect humankind's common home and well-being on Earth.

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Events: Jewish Energy Covenant Campaign

Jewish Energy Covenant Campaign Signing

50 Jewish leaders commit to reduce energy use, advocate for energy security: leaders across the political and religious spectrum celebrate Tu B'shvat by setting goal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions 14% by 2014.  Read the declaration...  List of signatories...

Events: Calling All Scholars!

Catholic Climate Covenant: Care for Creation. Care for the Poor.
The Catholic Coalition on Climate Change, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, the Catholic University of America, and CUA's Institute for Policy Research and Catholic Studies are cosponsoring a scholars' conference to explore the implications of recent papal teaching, particularly that of Pope Benedict XVI, on creation, solidarity and environmental justice. Scholars across academic disciplines (especially from theology, religious studies, philosophy, and economics, as well as public health, history, biology and other sciences) are encouraged to submit proposals for papers addressing the implications of Pope Benedict XVI's ecological vision, particularly for the Catholic Church in the United States. Proposals are due March 31, 2012.
Call for papers...

Events: Upcoming NCCC Eco-Justice Events

  • Live Webcast: The Intersection of Poverty and the Environment. April 21 at 12:00pm ET.
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  • Interfaith Moral Action on Climate. April 21-27 in Washington DC and many other communities.
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  • Webinar: Healthy Aging for An Abundant Life. May 15, 2:00pm ET.
    Learn more & Register now...

  • Symposium: Religion and Environmental Stewardship. June 5-7 at Yale Divinity School. Register by May 1st, 2012.
    Register now...

  • Seminar: Food, Glorious Food: The Eucharist and Your Foodshed. June 18-24. New Mexico.
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Events: Global Day of Prayer

Evangelical Environmental Network
 
 
The 3rd Day of Prayer for Creation Care will be held Thursday April 26, 2012 and will be hosted in Washington DC. This year our prayers will be globally focused. Dr. Chris Wright of the Langham Partnership will be the keynote speaker. Save the date and be sure to join us in Washington DC. Registration is now open!


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Mainline Protestant

Tilling and Keeping the Garden—Locally and Globally

Beach Lake United Methodist Church, Beach Lake, PA The members of Beach Lake United Methodist Church in Beach Lake, PA, take God’s command to till and keep the garden seriously. Not only have they built a community garden, but they also work to ensure just, environmentally friendly farming conditions around the world.

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Evangelical

No Idle Concern

Mark Cerbone, Buffalo, NY A version of this article by Tricia O’Connor Elisara originally appeared in the Spring 2008 issue of Creation Care magazine. Toxic fumes turned Mark Cerbone into a vigilante when his eldest daughter Sage began attending public school in Buffalo, NY.

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Ecumenical Garden Cultivates Restorative Justice

Mainline Protestant

Ecumenical Garden Cultivates Restorative Justice

Madison Christian Community, Madison, WI It’s a ministry that scatters seeds of hope for incarcerated people. Madison Christian Community, an ecumenical partnership between Advent Lutheran Church (ELCA) and Community of Hope (UCC) in Madison, WI, works with a nearby correctional facility to offer a restorative justice-based horticulture program in its 6000 square foot garden. “The garden ministry is one way to bridge the racial, economic and social barriers that exist between people today,”...

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Environmental Restoration

Catholic

Environmental Restoration

The Benedictine Women of Madison Middleton, WI Saint Benedict Center in Middleton, WI, is situated on 130 acres overlooks the northern shore of Lake ...

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Over a Decade of Jewish Environmental Activism at Temple Emanuel: a Model for Greening Your Synagogue

Jewish

Over a Decade of Jewish Environmental Activism at Temple Emanuel: a Model for Greening Your Synagogue

Temple Emanuel, Kensington, Maryland Jewish, Reform Movement Temple Emanuel’s bimah, with its wooden sculpture...

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Zero-Carbon Tomatoes

Mainline Protestant

Zero-Carbon Tomatoes

Episcopal Church of St. Paul and St. James, New Haven, CT “Zero food-mile tomatoes for Christ!” That’s how Josh Hill, a 2007 NCC Eco-Justice Fellow, describes the gardening project organized by the 20s/30s group at the Episcopal Church of St. Paul and St. James in New Haven, CT. The young adults are growing organic tomatoes as well as organic basil in pots in the church parking lot. The wife of one of the rectors germinated...

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From Google-ing to Gardening

Jewish

From Google-ing to Gardening

Adamah Fellowship Program at Isabella Freedman Jewish Retreat CenterFalls Village, CT In 2005, Adina Allen was an undergraduate environmental studies student at a university in Boston, MA taking an intensive course on the geopolitical issues connected with oil and water.  She was looking for information and tools to engage with the paradigm shift of humans and their relationship to the world.  She wasn’t satisfied that her academic learning was translating into practical experience.  Adina...

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Mainline Protestant

St. Francis Day Service

St. Mark's Episcopal Church Seattle, WA A spill off the Washington coast in 1989 sparked the formation of the Ecology/Spirituality Group at St. Mark's Episcopal Cathedral was started in 1989 after a priest and some church members answered a call for help to clean oil-soaked birds.

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Interfaith

Sustainable Futures Task Force

New Mexico Conference of Churches Albuquerque, NM The New Mexico Conference of Churches (NMCC) ...

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Earth Corps Advocacy Team

Mainline Protestant

Earth Corps Advocacy Team

Towson Presbyterian Church Towson, MD When people use the words "creation care," they might not often be thinking of visits to Capitol Hill. Yet, that is exactly what members of the Towson Presbyterian Church Earth Corps do, on a regular basis, as a way to care for God's creation. Starting in 1991, individual members of Towson made trips to their representatives in Congress with the Presbytery of Baltimore's public policy advocacy...

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Energy Independence

Jewish

Energy Independence

American Jewish CommitteeNew York, NY, National and International The American Jewish Committee, begun in 1906, promotes pluralistic and democratic societies where all minorities are protected, and all people are accorded respect and dignity.  One of AJC’s key priorities is energy independence and they are determined to become one of the first Jewish non-profits in the country with green certification for its national headquarters.  In New York City they have implemented a Green Building Project, in...

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Interfaith

Chautauqua County Rural Ministry

Dunkirk, NY Though few people may now be familiar with the concept of “gleaning” — the ...

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Milking An Experience for All It's Worth

Jewish

Milking An Experience for All It's Worth

Adamah Fellowship Program at Isabella Freedman Jewish Retreat Center, Falls Village, CT Aitan Mizrahi always knew he wanted a profession that was based on do-it-yourself, off-the-grid skills, and he wanted his line of work to be in line with a Jewish way of life. He was in his mid-20s when he found the perfect opportunity to combine Jewish text and teachings with practical thought and hands-on agricultural experience. Adamah: The Jewish Environmental Fellowship (Adamah) at...

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Recycling and Energy Savings

Jewish

Recycling and Energy Savings

Adat Shalom Synagogue Farmington Hills, Michigan Adat Shalom, a Conservative shul (synagogue) in Farmington Hills,...

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