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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 distinctive 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...

St. Francis Pledge

Catholic Climate Covenant: Care for Creation. Care for the Poor.
Take the St. Francis Pledge to Care for Creation and the Poor.  Join Catholics taking action in our families, parishes, schools, and communities to reduce our carbon footprint, care for the "least of these" (Mt 25) and raise our voice on behalf of Creation and the poor.

Events: Upcoming NCCC Eco-Justice Events

Ecumenical Advocacy Days 2013 The 11th annual Ecumencial Advocacy Days will be held April 5th-8th, 2013.  Join the NCC and other Christian advocates in Washington DC to seek Food Justice for a Healthy World.  To register, click here.

Mission 4/1 Earth The United Church of Christ has announced an all-church initiative to complete 1 million hours of earth care, 100,000 tree plantings, and 100,000 advocacy letters on environmental issues during the 50 days between Easter and Pentecost (April 1st-May 19th).  To learn more and get involved, click here.

Events: The Creation Care Teaching Institute

Evangelical Environmental Network
 
 
The Teaching Institute is for Christians who are passionate about their care for God's creation, and are looking for ways to become further equipped and engaged on their area of passion.  Click here for more information.  
 
 


Partners Encourage Congress to Take On Climate Change

NRPE's four partners have all written individual letters to the Bicameral Task Force on Climate Change. 

Please click on the partners to read the individual statements:



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Catholic Colleges, Universities Take Steps To Go Green CA, IN, MN

Catholic

Catholic Colleges, Universities Take Steps To Go Green CA, IN, MN

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Church Energy Efficiency

Mainline Protestant

Church Energy Efficiency

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Jewish Community Garden

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Jewish Community Garden

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Environmental Restoration

Catholic

Environmental Restoration

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Drive-Less Sunday

Mainline Protestant

Drive-Less Sunday

University Baptist Church Seattle, WA University Baptist Church is a small congregation in Seattle that considers creation care part of its Christian witness. On Pentecost Sunday in 2004, the congregation decided to celebrate the Holy Spirit’s blowing throughout God’s creation in a special way: Drive-Less Sunday. For a month leading up to Pentecost, bulletin announcements and verbal announcements were often heard to encourage a day to walk, bus, carpool, or bike to church on...

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Adat Shalom Reconstructionist Congregation

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Rwanda Clean Water Project

Evangelical

Rwanda Clean Water Project

Fermi Project, Suwanee, GA Adapted from an article, “From Nightmare to Dream Come True” by Jeff Shinaberger, in the Summer 2007 issue of Creation Care magazine. Like many Biblical inspirations, this story begins with a dream, or moreover, a nightmare. Jeff Shinaberger dreamt of a boy, about eight years old, four feet tall, no shirt, wearing only ripped up mud-stained pants, with an extended belly. He watched the boy dip a glass into a filthy puddle...

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Evangelical

“Monarch Mania” Leaves No Child Inside

Lakeland Christian School, Lakeland, FL A version of this article originally appeared in the Spring 2008 issue of Creation Care magazine. Since 1998, “Monarch Mania” has been an annual event at Lakeland Christian School. It started with a local butterfly entrepreneur, Gil Daigneau, who stopped by the school and left elementary principal Fred Wiechmann a monarch chrysalis hot-glued to a Golden Dewdrop plant.

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Evangelical

Deep Roots, Rich Fruit

Cultivate Church 2303 Evesham Rd Voorhees, NJ 08043 Website: www.cultivatenj.com Lead Pastor: Jay Francoeur Contact email: jay@cultivatenj.com     “Deep Roots, Rich Fruit” is the mantra of a Southern New Jersey church, which, for two years has been dedicated to “grow communities rooted in Christ that produce fruit for the good of the Garden State and the world.” Led by founder of Cultivate Church, Pastor Jay Francoeur, the church has been involved in local, regional and global efforts to grow sustainable crops for the betterment of communities...

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Caring for Creation Committee

Mainline Protestant

Caring for Creation Committee

Reformed Church of New Paltz New Paltz, New York Sometimes, just one day isn't enough. In April 2004, the Reformed Church of New Paltz, spearheaded by their Caring for Creation Committee, spent a week celebrating Earth Day. The week's events began Wednesday and Thursday with...

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Green Sanctuary Action

Interfaith

Green Sanctuary Action

Allen Avenue Unitarian Universalist Church Portland, ME Unitarian Universalists, as a whole, hold to the ...

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Gleaning with the Youth Group and Providing Service

Jewish

Gleaning with the Youth Group and Providing Service

Temple Beth HatfilohOlympia, Washington Mission Statement for Youth Education: “Our mission is to instill in our children and parents a positive Jewish identity, an appreciation of Jewish beliefs and practices, and a desire to make the world a better place through tzedakah (righteous giving) and Tikkun Olam (fixing the world)." Temple Beth Hatfiloh is a 160 member-household congregation dedicated to fulfilling the spiritual, educational, social and cultural needs of Jews in the South Puget Sound region. Their membership is made up people who...

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Mainline Protestant

Toward a Transfigured Creation

Orthodox Fellowship of the Transfiguration Santa Rosa, California Mention of God's gift of creation has long been a part of Orthodox liturgies, and the primary spiritual leader for the Orthodox Church worldwide, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, is often referred to as the "Green Patriarch." Thus, Orthodox members of the Eco-Justice Working Group of the National Council of Churches and others felt it was high time to have a national organization for Orthodox scholarship,...

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Evangelical

“What Would Jesus Drive?” Road Tour

Evangelical Environmental NetworkAustin, TX - Washington, D.C. In 2003, the Rev. Jim Ball, Executive Director ...

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