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  • Engaged Organization: Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Malaria Crisis

    Over the past five years, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America has worked to save lives impacted by malaria. They have educated 2 million community members, distributed 50,000 insecticide-treated bed nets, tested 160,000 people for malaria and provided treatment if positive, trained 10,000 local volunteers in prevention and treatment, empowered 12,000 households to be economically stable, and provided 32,000 pregnant women medication.

  • Evangelical Lutheran Church in America HIV and AIDS Strategy

    The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America has adopted the ELCA HIV and AIDS Strategy and called on members to respond faithfully and effectively to this pandemic. They aim to halt the spread of HIV through effective prevention, treatment and care, to eliminate the stigma and discrimination experienced by those who are HIV positive, and reduce the conditions of poverty that contribute to the spread of HIV.

  • Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service

    Since 1939, Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service has welcomed more than 379,000 refugees to the United Stated. They believe their work to be driven by God’s love for all people and a vision for congregations to be welcoming and generous centers for mission and ministry. Their work includes responding to people caught in conflict and facing persecution, advocating for their needs and interests, helping people access resources for basic human needs, working with foster care programs for minors, legal assistance, developing new and innovative service programs and partnerships, and much more.

  • Healthy Kids, Healthy Churches, Healthy Creation

    The Healthy Kids, Healthy Churches, Healthy Creation is a downloadable guide from Creation Justice Ministries. It seeks to provide Christian congregations and faith groups with an easy-to-use guide for initiating conversations in their communities about environmental health and how our consumer choices such as food, building materials, and personal care products impact human health and Creation.

  • Out of the Wilderness: Building Christian Faith and Keeping God’s Creation

    Out of the Wilderness: Building Christian Faith and Keeping God’s Creation is a downloadable resource from Creation Justice Ministries. The wilderness is deeply woven into Christianity and other faith traditions and was central to the spiritual journeys of Moses, Jesus and Muhammad. This resource strives to help in the modern day efforts to reflect peacefully and reconnect with the Creator through study, worship and congregational action.

  • Profile: Katherine Hayhoe

    Dr. Katherine Hayhoe is an atmospheric scientist who studies climate change. She is an associate professor in the department of Political Science and is the Director of the Climate Science Center at Texas Tech University. Her research at Texas Tech University focuses on assessing the impacts of, and solutions to, climate change at the local scale. She also researches language so that her message on climate change reaches listeners with various backgrounds. Katherine was one of Time Magazine’s most influential people of 2014. She is a part of several organizations including her own, ATMOS Research. Along with her husband, who is the author of eight best-selling books, she wrote “A Climate for Change: Global Warming Facts for Faith-Based Decisions”.

  • Black Swamp Green Team Joins Ohio IPL

    The Black Swamp Green Team is a collaboration of faith communities, advocacy groups, non-profit entities, and individuals engaged in promoting and practicing good creation care in Bowling Green, Ohio. This team has become a “Regional Partner” with Ohio IPL with a common mission to address climate change.

  • Ecowomanist Wisdom: Embracing Spiritual Rest & Active Contemplation

    Ecowomanist Wisdom: Embracing Spiritual Rest & Active Contemplation is a dynamic program put on by the MaryKnoll Sisters meant to invite people to examine the sacred earth from the perspective of women of African descent. Using Christian meditation practices, participants will be guided into consideration of how these women’s understandings help shape new direction for sustainable practices in the balance of earth. The event will be held from July 9th to July 14th in Ossining, New York.

  • Faith in Public Life

    Faith in Public Life is a center for advancing faith in the public square. They take on the role of empowering religious leaders to fight for social justice and the common good. They are also involved with the role of faith in politics because of their media expertise and campaign developments.

  • Ohio Faith in Public Life

    Faith in Public Life has many goals and programs in Ohio because of its’ important role in politics and diversity in faith communities. One of their main goals is combating climate change. They believe transitioning Ohio to a clean energy state is a moral necessity and are working towards unfreezing the renewable energy standard.

  • Diocese of Southern Ohio goes Green

    By the end of May, The Diocese of Southern Ohio will have all of their buildings powered by 100% renewable energy. These buildings include Procter Center, Diocesan House, Gabriel’s Place, and the Latino Ministry Center in Forest Park. The diocese will be saving over $1,400 annually along with reducing their carbon footprint.

  • Engaged Organization: Green For All

    Green For All is one of the main initiatives of The Dream Corps. They work to build an inclusive green economy that is strong enough to support people of all economic levels. Their main goal is bring jobs and opportunities to all communities as the clean energy movement grows. It is led by Vien Truong, a policy architect and solutions innovator.

  • Creation Television Series

    Salt + Light Media produced a free television series called Creation. It contains personal stories, clerical teachings, and Biblical truths. Its goal is to help answer the fundamental question, why do Catholics need to care about the environment?

  • Catholicism and Veganism Presentation

    On April 21st, the Columbus Veg Community is holding a Catholicism and Veganism presentation at the Columbus Metropolitan Library. The speaker, Madison Maholm, is a passionate Catholic Vegan who is a Worship Leader at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Grove City. In Madison’s presentation, she will speak about how religion impacts all areas of her life, including food. There will be free vegan food provided, and a Q&A session after the presentation.

  • Interfaith Day of Community Service

    Columbus Global Academy is holding an event on Earth Day, April 22nd, from 12:30 to 4:30. People of all faiths and cultures are invited to attend and participate in a day of community service and fellowship. The goal of this service day is to make the school building a more welcoming environment for the wide variety of students. Projects will include painting and gardening in the courtyards and helping to construct a soccer field for students to use. A community potluck and celebration with music will follow the work portion of the day.

  • Care for God’s Creation: Make the World Better than You Found it

    Our Lady of Perpetual Help in Grove City is holding an informative and interactive evening designed to provide practical ways to respond to the Catholic faith by caring for our common home. The meeting will be held on October 1st from 6:30 to 8:30 at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church, Life Center, Grove City. There will be two speakers: Jerry Freewalt, director of the diocesan Office of Social Concerns, and Jason Cervenec of the OSU Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center.

  • Food Security: Dream of Feeding Hundreds Comes True

    Brother Paul Kennedy, a member of the Dominican Order, grew up in Cincinnati with a dream of running a restaurant. Today, he is fulfilling that dream in an unexpected way. Every weekday, he is in charge of feeding the physical and spiritual hunger of more than 300 people at the Holy Family Soup Kitchen in Columbus. Brother Paul offers that, “What always was important to me about the restaurant business was the chance to communicate with people as much as the chance to feed them. But regardless of what I did, every job I’ve had in the past was focused on service to people. Here at the soup kitchen, I get the chance to do the kind of work I wanted to while growing up, while at the same time getting to know the people we serve and developing a rapport with them.”

  • Beyond the Bin

    St. Anthony Parish in Cincinnati, Ohio has starting their own recycling program. One of the parishioners had recently discovered that nearly 50% of all trash could be diverted by being recycled or composted. Their creation care committee launched the Beyond the Bin program by installing a 96-gallon bin in an alcove near the rectory. Word spread through the congregation, parishioners have started to bringing in their own recycling, and the program has been embraced by the entire church community.

  • Faith Community Alliance of Greater Cincinnati

    The faith Community Alliance of Greater Cincinnati is a group of interfaith communities who have gathered to share stories and come together to support environmental initiatives. Typically, they will look into what the government is doing and urge for better policy.

  • Profile: Jim Rogers

    An A.B. graduate of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and J.D. graduate of George Washington University, Jim Rogers has a varied background working in law and the non-profit and for-profit sectors, with notable tours as a Legal Aid Attorney, lobbyist and public relations staff for the ACLU of Ohio, and a program reviewer for United Way of Greater Cincinnati.

    For the last four years he has served on the Green Team of the Community of the Good Shepherd Church in Montgomery Ohio and the Greater Cincinnati Archdiocese Task Force on Climate Change. For the latter, he has served as Chair of the Legislative Advocacy Committee which has built a relationship with several green businesses in Greater Cincinnati and has had meetings with legislators and government officials on both sides of the aisle in Columbus.

    Though a life-long Christian, Jim is a committed ecumenist, believing that we will be able to address the environmental crisis and other challenges of our time only when we unite the forces of the world’s great religions. Jim serves several faith communities and supports his Christian walk with the regular practice of Yoga and “Light” energy through Sukyo Mahikari.

  • Profile: Caroljean Willie

    Caroljean Willie is a Sister of Charity of Cincinnati. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology, a Master’s Degree in Reading and a Ph.D. in Multicultural Education. She has extensive experience working cross-culturally throughout the United States, the Caribbean and Latin America. She is a frequent speaker at regional and national conferences and has also given presentations in Africa, Asia, Europe, the Caribbean and Latin America. She recently completed two terms of office as the NGO representative at the United Nations for the Sisters of Charity Federation and currently serves as the program director at EarthConnection, her congregation’s environmental center in Cincinnati.

  • Profile: Tony Stieritz – Honoring Faith Traditions and Shared Values

    Tony is the director of Catholic Social Action of the Archdiocese of Cincinnati. He helped the Catholic Archdiocese of Cincinnati form a network of climate change leaders. He inspired leaders by connecting their faith and climate solutions. Through a partnership with the Greater Cincinnati Energy Alliance (GCA) 10 archdiocesan parishes, schools, and other facilities received over $290,000 in incentives to implement over $1.4 million in energy efficiency upgrades. Though Tony has had much success with climate change initiatives he still wants more people in the Archdiocese to make climate change a priority.

    “We took climate change out of a political conversation and put it into a personal values conversation.”

  • The Midwest Regional Sustainability Summit

    The 2017 Midwest Regional Summit welcomes stakeholders throughout the Ohio Valley region and adjoining areas to exchange their practices, have thoughtful discussions, and celebrate the environmental work that is going on throughout the Midwest. This year’s summit will look focus on the issue of equity and its relationship to sustainability. Green Umbrella is partnering with the City of Cincinnati Office of Environment and Sustainability and the Department of Economic Inclusion, the Brueggeman Center for Dialogue at Xavier University, Hamilton County Planning and Development and the Greater Cincinnati Green Business Council to present a daylong conference to share the ideas and practices in environmental sustainability at the Midwest Regional Sustainability Summit. The keynote speaker, Van Jones, is a globally recognized, award-winning leader in the green economy along with being experienced in linking the economy, the environment and social justice. He is also the best-selling author of a book on green jobs, The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems.

  • Engaged Organization: The Dream Corps

    The Dream Corps is a social justice organization, designed to reach across racial, social, and partisan lines to create a future with freedom and dignity for all. The founder, Van Jones, is scheduled as the keynote speaker at the Midwest Regional Sustainability Summit held in June in Cincinnati. They support economic, environmental, and criminal justice leaders in order to tackle America’s social justice challenges. Their slogan is “21st-century jobs, not jail." Initiatives include #YESWECODE, #CUT50, and Green for All.

  • Sisters of Earth: Hopes and Dreams

    How to Face the Mess We’re in without Going Crazy is the subtitle of Joanna Macy’s book Active Hope. The book was the inspiration for the Sisters of Earth gathering that took place July 12-15, 2018 at Mount Saint Joseph, home of the Sisters of Charity in Cincinnati, Ohio. Cincinnati was chosen as the location partly because of the ancestral inspiration of Sister of Charity Paula Gonzalez, who promoted solar power and sustainability projects and teachings throughout the Catholic world. This year, nearly 100 women from the United States and Canada gathered, in part, to remember Sister Paula and also to address concerns about the ecological/spiritual crises of our times by asking questions such as: Who are we? Where are we? How did we get here and what is possible? And — where do we go from here?