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  • Creation and Climate Care Zine

    "If I want to talk to my church about climate change, where do I begin? How does climate affect migration today? Why is climate justice also racial justice? In what ways can I take real climate action on my own, and with my community? If you’ve ever wondered about any of these things, we’ve got you covered, friend. We're proud to present the story of creation care and climate justice…all wrapped up in doodle-filled, colorful, action-packed CREATION & CLIMATE CARE ZINE.

    This new resource is an easy and engaging way to learn, to jumpstart conversations on climate change, and finally to act together in order to heal and protect our common home -- whether you live in Texas or New York, whether you’re 13 or 83 or anywhere in between."

  • A Service of Celebration: Celebrating 40 Years of Creation Justice Ministries

    This event is "A Service of Celebration" in honor of the 40th anniversary of Creation Justice Ministries. There will be preaching, music, an offering, and a reception.

    "The service will also be livestreamed. The link will be sent to registrants closer to the date. While there is no charge to attend, we ask you to register in advance.

    Following the Service of Celebration, we will host a reception for everyone in attendance. We look forward to sharing fellowship with you all. Stay tuned for more information about refreshments and activities."

  • Jewish Earth Alliance Tisha B'Av Virtual Lobby Days

    "Get ready to meet your Members of Congress on Tues and Wed July 25th and 26th, 2023, just before Tisha B'Av. No experience required.

    We're scheduling convenient virtual half-hour meetings with your Members of Congress, so please register below. You can do this from wherever you are so don't worry if you are traveling."

  • Climate and Energy Resources for Faith Communities: A Briefing with the U.S. Department of Energy

    "The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) and the bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) created the largest climate and clean energy investment America has ever made. These bills provide federal funding for energy and climate resiliency improvements that can be used in houses of worship and our individual homes. This historic legislation provides people of faith and conscience with an opportunity to live our values of caring for one another and for our Sacred Earth. The IRA included clean energy tax credits for wind and solar, EVs, efficiency upgrades, heat pumps, and much more. It also made it easier for nonprofits and houses of worship to access clean energy funds and tax credits through a program called 'direct pay.' Before the IRA, only homeowners and commercial entities with some tax liability could claim tax credits when installing solar panels or other eligible technologies on an eligible property. Now, the 'direct pay' option means non-taxable entities can also benefit from these credits.

    Join us for a briefing with the U.S. Department of Energy to learn more about direct pay, the tax credits, the programs, and the role faith communities can play in helping our country address the climate crisis and ensure that all communities are supported.

    If you aren't able to attend, you can still register, and we will send the recording out to everyone who registered."

  • The Black Church & the Environmental Age

    This course, created by Green the Church, aims to help people learn about the relationship of Black Churches and their congregations with the environmental movement. It discusses environmental issues specific to Black communities and how Black Churches can be involved and mobilize around them.

  • Catholic Climate Covenant YouTube Page

    This is the YouTube page for the Catholic Climate Covenant, containing several videos pertaining to their mission. Catholic Climate Covenant encourages US Catholics to care for creation and care for the poor.

  • Muslims for Climate Justice Conference

    "In September 2023 inshaAllah, Muslims dedicated to ending the climate crisis will gather at a summit to hear from renowned scholars and inspirational change-makers. Together, we will form an unbreakable network bound by an Islamic framework and worship of Allah (SWT), utilizing values of empathy, innovation, and justice to invite Muslims into the global climate conversation."

  • Faithfully Sustainable

    "We envision a world where young Muslims have the community support and necessary resources to create just and sustainable solutions grounded in Islam. Ultimately, these solutions will address the impact of climate injustice, protect the most vulnerable, and serve as a step forward for young Muslims to fulfill their divine duty towards people and the planet.

    We equip young Muslims and allies with a strong community, and the educational and financial resources necessary for them to create just and sustainable solutions."

  • Sustainable Fashion & Environmental Justice from A Muslim Perspective

    A Zoom panel discussion featuring Faithfully Sustainable cofounders Zainab Koli and Kadiatou Balde, as well as member Saja Elmishri, focusing on clothing sustainability, fast fashion, and how fashion impacts environmental justice.

  • Evangelical Christians and the Environment: “Christians for the Mountains” and the Appalachian Movement against Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining

    This source deals with past research that connects Evangelicalism with anti-environmental values. The organization “Christians for the Mountains” seems to be contradictory to this prior research. Through a variety of qualitative methods, this research paper goes into the actual attitudes at play and how this might apply more broadly

  • Our common home

    This is a booklet guide to caring for our living planet created through a joint initiative of the Holy See and Stockholm Environment Institute. This booklet contains ten sections detailing topics such as climate, air, water, and actions to combat climate change. It was partly inspired by and contains quotes from Pope Francis' Laudato Si'.

  • MTSO and the intersection between faith and food.

    At the Methodist Theology School in Ohio, there are several different organizations that focus on the act of sustainability and pro-environmental behaviors, one of these is the Community Food and Wellness Initiative. According to their website, their objectives included creating a stronger connection between the land, ourselves, and the community, as well as "supporting local participation in national and global food justice campaigns". The Community Food and Wellness Initiative also focuses on offering experiences to the community that will further their knowledge of the earth and food production.

  • Protecting nature, act of faith: Muslim women are leading the charge on climate activism

    In this news article and accompanying interview, by the Canadian Broadcasting Association (CBC), they highlight a Muslim women, Memona Hossain, who identifies as a Muslim activist. In her research, she has found that religion can play a significant role in climate activism, often viewing it as empowerment, as a lot of the Muslim women she interviewed were involved with climate action because of their faith. These women believed that protecting nature was a form of worship and that they needed to take care of this gift from Allah, the Arabic word for God.

  • A Movement Is Born: Environmental Justice and the UCC

    After the ban of PCBs in the late 1970s, a landfill in Warren County, North Carolina had been designated as a place of disposal. This county had one of the highest rates of black residents, as well as poverty rates. This sparked leaders in the United Church of Christ including Dollie Burwell, Rev. Leon White, Rev. Benjamin Chavis Jr. and the UCC’s Commission for Racial Justice to become a leading force in the environmental justice movement. This article highlights the work of these leaders in fighting against environmental racism.

  • Indigenous Environmental Network

    "Established in 1990 within the United States, IEN was formed by grassroots Indigenous peoples and individuals to address environmental and economic justice issues (EJ). IEN’s activities include building the capacity of Indigenous communities and tribal governments to develop mechanisms to protect our sacred sites, land, water, air, natural resources, health of both our people and all living things, and to build economically sustainable communities.IEN accomplishes this by maintaining an informational clearinghouse, organizing campaigns, direct actions and public awareness, building the capacity of community and tribes to address EJ issues, development of initiatives to impact policy, and building alliances among Indigenous communities, tribes, inter-tribal and Indigenous organizations, people-of-color/ethnic organizations, faith-based and women groups, youth, labor, environmental organizations and others. IEN convenes local, regional and national meetings on environmental and economic justice issues, and provides support, resources and referral to Indigenous communities and youth throughout primarily North America – and in recent years – globally."

  • Fund for Front Line Power

    "Frontline communities — those impacted first, worst, and for centuries by environmental injustice and sytemic racism — have long-recognized that the climate crisis is here.
    As we witness the escalating impacts of compounding crises and the innovations of interconnected solutions, we must accelerate the flow of liberated self-determination capital, land stewardship, and resources to the grassroots.
    We cannot solve the climate crisis with incremental actions, market-based schemes, or techno-fixes that perpetuate harm. We must root our future in economies and communities grounded in equity, justice, and well-being. Frontline communities have developed bold and practical solutions that do just that!"

  • By the Sun: A Home Solar Workshop by Green Muslims and IPL-DMV 2023

    "Join Green Muslims and Interfaith Power & Light as we gather to learn how we might power our homes with clean energy -- "wash shamsi wa duhaa haa," by the sun and its brightness! (Quran 91:1)
    Along with members of Masjid Muhammad and other local masajid ... you're invited to learn about and consider joining Solar United Neighbors (SUN)'s open solar purchasing groups for homeowners in Maryland, DC, and Northern Virginia.
    Together we:
    - Reflected on the Muslim call to be khalifa - stewards - of our world
    - Heard from Sis. Bayinah Shaheed whose home is powered by the sun
    - Connected with Sukrit Mishra from Solar United Neighbors, which is convening solar purchasing groups this summer.
    - Asked your questions about going solar at home
    - Started your solar journey

    - DC, NoVA, & Montgomery, Prince George's, Frederick Counties MD: https://www.bit.ly/SolarSwitchIPL

    - Baltimore & surrounding counties: https://www.energyprograms.civicworks...

    (Calligraphy in illustration is text of Surah 91 Ash-Shams by Everitte Barbee: https://www.saatchiart.com/.../Drawin...)"

  • 2023 Feast of St. Francis: The Way of Francis: Seeking Peace & Justice for All Creation

    "This year’s program is designed to assist you, your family, parish, school, diocese, religious community, or other Catholic institution learn about Catholic nonviolence, and the "Franciscan" call to seek peace and justice for all of creation. The need to answer this call has become more and more urgent, as our planet, and our most vulnerable brothers and sisters, are living the consequences of climate change and its associated economic and social disruptions. The 90-minute program enables U.S. Catholics to host in-person or virtual sessions to grow in their understanding and call to care for creation as integral to the Catholic faith through prayer, education and action."

  • Season of Creation 2023: Let Justice and Peace Flow

    "Prophet Isaiah proclaims: 'Listen carefully, I am about to do a new thing, now it will spring forth; will you not be aware of it? I will even put a road in the wilderness, rivers in the desert.' (Isaiah 43: 19) Biodiversity is being lost at a rate not seen since the last mass extinction. The futures of young people are threatened by the cascading impacts of the loss of biodiversity and a changing climate.
    The urgency grows and we must make visible peace with Earth and on Earth, at the same time that justice calls us to repentance and a change of attitude and actions. As we join the river of justice and peace with others then hope is created instead of despair.

    We invite you to use these resources and share them with your church, pastor or other regional authority to join the Season of Creation, and even spread the word to local media."

  • Fairmount Presbyterian Church achieves another environmental milestone

    "Each year, the Cleveland 2030 District and the NEO Local Leadership Team of USGBC (U.S. Green Building Council) Ohio host a friendly green building challenge to recognize exemplary new green construction and renovation projects in this region. In May, the winning entries were announced and—among recipients such as Oberlin College, the Progressive Insurance Campus, and the Maltz Performing Arts Center—Cleveland Heights Fairmount Presbyterian Church (FPC) was recognized for its work in achieving a 50% electricity use reduction."

  • The Green Lectionary podcast

    "Over the weeks of the Season of Creation we will be launching the Green Lectionary podcast, a conversation on scripture through the lens of creation justice. We have invited scholars, activists and preachers to join the CJM staff in discussing how we might preach well known passages with an eye towards caring for all that God has made."

  • Faith and the Environmental Movement: A Franciscan Perspective

    This blog post was written by a member of WE ACT, which is an environmental justice-based organization located in Harlem, NYC. The post discusses the relationship between Catholicism and environmentalism. The author argues that Catholics are key environmental changemakers because Catholic teachings and religious leaders, like Pope Francis, emphasize protection for God's creation and care for the poor.

  • Environmental underpinnings in Rosh Hashanah Liturgy: We are stewards of our world…take better care of the earth!

    David Golinkin explains in this article the connection between the Jewish holiday, Rosh Hashanah, and environmentalism. He explains certain Jewish phrases and their significance in respect to our responsibility to the world.

  • World Resources Institute

    Founded in 1982 by Gus Speth in Washington, D.C., World Resources Institute (WRI) has staff around the world using research- and evidence-based approaches in an effort to mobilize partnerships for the protection and restoration of the environment. They aim to help create resilient and sustainable communities, with a focus on the production and usage of food and energy, as well as the planning and building of cities. "WRI’s mission is to move human society to live in ways that protect Earth’s environment and its capacity to provide for the needs and aspirations of current and future generations. Our mission and values guide all the work we do." (WRI Mission and Values)

  • Pohoda Music Festival

    "Pohoda is a music and arts festival with an international acclaim, where alternative, indie, electronica, world music, & punk meet classical; alongside literature, dance, visual art, film, and theatre." First organized in 1997, this festival takes place in Slovakia each summer. It is renowned for its social and ecological consciousness and promotion of community and sustainability. Pohoda received the Green Operations Award in 2017. Multi-cultural and environmentally friendly, Pohoda has set high operation standards for its festival counterparts.