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• Urban Agriculture and Container Gardens

  Technology For the Poor is a non-profit organization started by Dr. Job Ebenezer. Their mission is to develop, innovate, and disseminate sustainable technologies to the poor all over the world. While Dr. Ebenezer has designed and implemented many different sustainable practices, one of the most notable is his work with urban agriculture and gardens. Using inexpensive containers and suitable soil mix, he has created container gardens in urban areas such as rooftops and unused parking lots in places such as Chicago and Washington D.C. Locally, he has created these gardens at Ascension Lutheran Church, Faith Mission Men’s Shelter, and a soup kitchen in Franklin.
• Enagaged Orginazation: Technology for the Poor

  Technology for the Poor is a non-profit, charitable organization started by the current president, Dr. Job Ebenezer. Based on the philosophy of George Washington Carver, their work strives to serve communities by providing them with sustainable technologies. These sustainable technologies include human powered energy systems, urban agriculture, and sustainable building technologies. Specific examples of their work includes a dual-purpose bicycle, wind energy generators, low-cost construction techniques, and container gardening. Dr. Ebenezer’s container gardens have made it much easier for urban buildings, such as churches and community buildings, to have their own gardens.
• Event: Family Fun for a Clean Planet

  The youth at First Presbyterian Church in Delaware are celebrating Earth Day on Sunday, April 23 from 11:30-2:00 at Blue Limestone Park with games nature walks and recycled artwork.
• Presbyterian Church adds Caring for Creation to Constitution

  On June 25, 2017, the amendments added to the constitution of the Presbyterian Church will go into effect. Included in these provisions is the addition of caring for God’s creation as a responsibility for all church members. The amendment received the needed 86 affirmative votes for ratification.
• Engaged Organizations: Carbon Covenant

  The Carbon Covenant, a program of Interfaith Power & Light, supports faith communities directly addressing the problem of carbon emissions and deforestation. They currently have programs in Cambodia, Cameroon, Ghana, and Tanzania that work with small villages in these areas to reduce illegal logging. In Ghana, the program is known as Trees& Eco-Clubs that supports Presbyterian youth programs by teaching them about trees and deforestation. In Tanzania, the program is known as Trees of Kilimanjaro and they are supported by the Lutheran church and work to plant trees near Mt. Kilimanjaro. In Cameroon, the program focuses on establishing interfaith collaboration between Christians and Muslims to plant trees and is knows as Interfaith Collaboration. The last project is known as Monk Patrol in Cambodia and helps Buddhist eco-monks in their daily work to stop illegal deforestation.
• The Poverty of Global Climate Change

  Interfaith Power & Light offers The Poverty of Global Climate Change, a National Council of Churches Eco Justice resource on the impacts of climate change, especially on the poor and vulnerable population. This document states background information on climate change, how humans make it worse with our daily habits, and how to start on the path to making it right. It also offers sermon starters and other resources to help teach the relation between faith and the environment.
• Engaged Organization: Alliance of Religions and Conservation

  Founded in 1995 and closed in June of 2019, the Alliance of Religions and Conservation worked with multiple faith communities worldwide. They believed that religious organizations have an immense influence on social, educational, political, and cultural issues around the world. This influence makes these organizations one of the most powerful in social changes in society. Therefore, the Alliance of Religions and Conservation worked with religious organizations to care for the environment and use their own unique relationships with the natural world to do so. The work of ARC is carried on by a number of other organizations.
• Engaged Organizations: United Religions Initiative

  The United Religions Initiative is a coalition with the purpose of promoting interfaith cooperation, to end religiously motivated violence, and to create cultures of peace and healing for the Earth and all living beings. Their program specific to solving ecological programs is called Cooperation Circles and it focuses on fixing these issues through cooperation instead of violence. Some of their work has included installing solar panels on the roofs of houses of worship, reforestation and native species planting, climate change awareness campaigns, and many more environmentally friendly campaigns.
• Just Transition: Shrinking our Carbon Footprint While Leaving No One Behind

  Just Transition: Shrinking our Carbon Footprint While Leaving No One Behind is a webinar offered by the Catholic Climate Covenant. It focuses on how the poor feels the greatest impacts and consequences of climate change, how to address the challenge of switching from a fossil-fuels based economy to a clean energy economy, and what Catholic social teachings have to say about a transition to a clean energy economy.
• Engaged Organizations: Food, Faith, and Farming

  Food, Faith, and Farming, previously known as Churches’ Center for Land and People, uses an interfaith collaboration approach to integrate earth stewardship, economic justice, community and spirituality around issues related to agriculture and food. They aim to strengthen rural life and the connection between farmers, their land, and their communities. They do so by offering a prayerful and spiritual perspective in rural communities, raising awareness of rural spirituality in our culture, and providing resources for those in church life and beyond.
• Sojourners Magazine: Creation Care

  Sojourners is a magazine that covers the intersection of faith, politics, and culture. They focus on social justice, life and peace, and environmental stewardship. Their topic of creation care encompasses stories on the ecological disruptions that affect the poor and vulnerable more than others. They strive to tell the stories of those who are most affected and keep the public updated on policy changes and sustainability advancements.
• Engaged Organizations: Blessed Earth

  Blessed Earth is an organization that inspires faithful stewardship of all creation. They believe that the Bible is the Word of God and holds wisdom for today and are motivated by the biblical mandate to care for God’s creation. They work on promoting actions that encourage responsible stewardship of resources, and they believe in building bridges within and beyond the church that serve the Kingdom and glorify God. They offer and promote educational materials, resources, events, and a monthly newsletter for creation care stories, tools, and links on their website.
• Engaged Organizations: National Religious Coalition on Creation Care

  The National Religious Coalition on Creation Care is an organization that strives to meet four main goals: to hold conversations about the human responsibility to God and his creation, to provide a moral test for whether or not an action is right before God, to establish an easily communicated religious and spiritual basis for a just society, and to reveal a vision on how society must transform its attitude and become one with the ecosystem of the planet. They represent an array of religious denominations that are all united in certain principles concerning human responsibility toward God’s Creation. Their website includes resources for all lifestyles and perspectives that one may be searching for.
• Engaged Organizations: Jewish Food Movement: Hazon

  Hazon, which means vision, is an organization that works to create a healthier and more sustainable Jewish community. They do so through three effective changes: transformative experiences, thought-leadership, and capacity building. They are all intensive multi-day retreats or workshops that encourage people to make a difference in the world, and in the process enable them to renew their Jewish journeys.
• Season of Creation

  The Season of Creation is an optional season for the church year. For the most part, the seasons of the church follow Advent, Christmas, Epiphany, Lent, and Easter and the remainder of the year encompasses Pentecost Season. The Season of Creation, also known as “Creation Time,” can be celebrated at different points in the church year. The purpose is to help turn the attention of religious followers to their relationship with God and all of creation and to strengthen the relationship with God through his creation.
• Creation Justice Ministries Downloadable Resources

  Creation Justice Ministries offers downloadable resources to help educate on faith and climate change. They have resources on climate and energy, Earth Day, environmental health, and land & water stewardship. There is also a free download on how to build a creation friendly church.
• Let’s Talk Faith and Climate: Communication Guidance for Faith Leaders

  Let’s Talk Faith and Climate: Communication Guidance for Faith Leaders is a webinar designed to present findings and explanations on climate action as a moral imperative. Their website includes tools to assist in making an impact and success stories. It also includes a guide to deepen engagement on climate action.
• Being an “EcoPreacher”

  EcoPreacher is a website designed to provide resources on how to deliver eco friendly sermons. The site features sermons, essays, movie and book reviews, creative writing, and ecotheological reflections to assist one in being an “EcoPreacher.” There most recent post, 17 Ways to be an EcoPreacher in 2017, provides 17 ideas from the book Creation-Crisis Preaching: Ecology, Theology and the Pulpit by Rev. Leah Schade on this idea.
• Engaged Organizations: Christian Food Movement

  The Christian Food Movement combines discipleship, sustainability, health and justice in hopes to inspire conversation and collaboration about agriculture and providing food for all who need it. Their website is a guide to different Christian organizations that either provide information about sustainability producing food, or are a resource for those in need of food. They believe in loving and taking care of ones neighbor, no matter their faith. This is how and why this program was started and has since grown. In addition, their website offers a directory which can be used to find resources in any state.
• Earth Day 2017 – Environmental Justice with Indigenous Peoples

  Creation Justice Ministries is celebrating Earth Day 2017 by focusing on environmental justice with indigenous people. They believe that the Christian communities living in the United States have an important role to play in developing relationships of solidarity with indigenous people. They will be offering sermon preparation resources, hymn suggestion, Christian education ideas, action opportunities, and more. They also note that these resources will be helpful to Indigenous People Day which is October 9, 2017.
• Engaged Organizations: The Green Seminary Initiative

  The Green Seminary Initiative is a program that encourages schools of theology to be participants and keepers of God’s creation. They provide strategies and guidance for theology schools to assist them in “greening” their buildings and lives. They believe that the religious community has a significant role in solving the human-caused environmental destruction and this process begins in schools.
• Let All Creation Praise

  Let All Creation Praise is an initiative to provide resources for Christian worship to promote love of and care for God’s creation. They offer resources to help congregations learn to celebrate God’s love for creation, to worship God with creation, to help restore the relationship between nature and humans, and to foster love for God’s whole creation. They believe that care for creation should be integral to the life of all Christians and that it brings humans into the right relationship with God.
• My Jewish Learning

  My Jewish Learning was launched in 2003 with the initiative to empower Jewish discovery for anyone interested in learning. Their website includes helpful guides on celebrating, eating, living, mourning, praying and studying. Their study section includes Science and Ecology, which includes articles written on Jewish Science, the ethical treatment of animals in Judaism, sustainable Jewish eating, nature and the environment, and more environment related posts.
• Earth Connection

  Earth Connection is an outdoor school in Virginia that aims to teach students how to be comfortable and feel at home in the wilderness. They focus on teaching students about the resources and history around them. Their class offerings range from how to stay safe while being in the outdoors, to teaching of the enjoyment of nature on a deeper, more spiritual level.
• 2017 Faith Climate Action Guide

  Interfaith Power & Light has created a 2017 Faith Climate Action Guide. This guide lists easy ways everyone can get involved and help advocate for the health of our environment.