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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. |
Brackenhurst Environmental Program Kenya Baptist Kenya is an African nation where indigenous trees and whole forests are rapidly disappearing. The ...
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Baltimore, MD Kayam Farm organically grows healthy food for the Pearlstone Conference & Retreat Center and greater Baltimore, Maryland community, while offering both Jewish and non-sectarian hands-on agricultural and environmental education. They hope to reconnect people with their food and with the earth, inspiring social and ecological responsibility in the Jewish community, greater Baltimore, and beyond. Kayam Farm’s 5 acres cultivates organically grown vegetables, culinary & medicinal herbs, fruit orchards, vineyards, berry & asparagus patches, and small grains. The Kayam program...
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JustFaith, IL and National JustFaith Ministries offersan important education and faith formation study, Creation Cries for Justice, Climate Change: Impact and Response. In conjunction with the Catholic Coalition on Climate Change, JustFaith provides this eight-week curriculum containing faith and science resources that address climate change in solidarity with the poor and for use by faith communities. Rooted in Catholic social teaching and informed by the Bishops’ statement, Global Climate Change: A Plea for Dialogue, Prudence...
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Washington State Catholic Conference, WA In Washington, Archbishop Alexander Brunett served on the Governor’s Climate Advisory Team, which prepared recommendations to achieve emission reduction, and green jobs goals. Many of the team’s recommendations were signed into law, the Climate Action and Green Jobs legislation. Some of the goals are to reduce emissions from the vehicle miles traveled, the establishment of a regional market-based system and the participation of local governments in them, and how the...
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SEEDS is a green initiative started in 2007 by Trinity Lutheran seminary students, staff, and faculty. The purpose of the group is to get those associated with the seminary to think and act more environmentally. The group is split into various subdivisions that deal with specific environmental projects, such as energy efficient lighting, paper use within the seminary, recycling, and various garden projects. In the beginning SEEDS only met once a month; currently the group meets weekly due to increasing...
Read moreBaptist General Convention of Texas The "colonia," or neighborhood, of Anapera, Mexico, lies three miles south of El Paso, Texas. This community has 20,000 residents; they are the poorest of the poor, living without water, sanitation and healthcare. Many are hungry. The desert community is blighted by unlimited trash dumping, chemical contamination and untreated sewage, which cause serious illness and reduce the quality of life for its residents.
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Adat Shalom Synagogue Farmington Hills, Michigan Adat Shalom, a Conservative shul (synagogue) in Farmington Hills,...
Read moreChestnut Hill United Methodist Church Philadelphia, PA Actively providing environmental education and programs...
Read moreLutheran School of Theology at Chicago (LSTC) Chicago, Illinois Seminarian Steve Jerbi says, “I chose LSTC ...
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Robert Saligman Middle School, Melrose Park, PAJewish, Conservative Movement Robert Saligman Middle School is part of a larger educational community, the Perelman Jewish Day School. The campus is shared not only with the other Perelman schools (a Jewish nursery school, day school and high school) but is also the home of Gratz College and the Auerbach Central Agency for Jewish Education, institutions which train thousands of Jewish educators. This center of learning and growth was ideally suited to be the pilot site...
Read moreMarah International Attleboro, MA Imagine growing up as a child in the environmental disaster areas of Eastern Europe or the former ...
Read moreHarlem Congregations for Community Improvement, New York City, NY An interfaith coalition of more than 90 congregations is greening low-income housing in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City. Harlem Congregations for Community Improvement (HCCI) is celebrating the recent opening of David and Joyce Dinkins Gardens, a new, green affordable housing development.
Read moreBeach 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.
Read moreCreation Care Conference Sandy Cove, MD Worship is the one of the essential lynchpins ...
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