Community Peace and Justice - from a Faith Perspective
Courageous Conversations: Caring For the Earth – Our Common Home
January 10, 17, 2024
Following the warmest year on record along with record-setting climate disasters, this two-week program will begin with an overview of the issue, featuring a video by Dr. Katherine Hayhoe. Dr Hayhoe is one of the top internationally-recognized climate scientists, chief scientist for the Nature Conservancy and a college professor. As a Christiam (and the wife of an evangelical pastor), she also speaks passionately and persuasively about the importance of creation care for Christians. Our CCOVB Earth Care Team will be featuring many opportunities for action throughout the coming months.
Caring for the Earth - Resources 2024
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United Church of Christ
Environmental Care Resources. See also Putting Faith into Action on Climate – United Church of Christ (ucc.org)
Interfaith Power and Light
We are a national leader in engaging faith communities in environmental stewardship and climate action. Since the year 2000, IPL has partnered with thousands of congregations to address climate change by stewarding Creation
Blessed Tomorrow
We inspire our communities to act on one of the greatest moral challenges of our era: climate change. Blessed Tomorrow is by people of faith, for people of faith, offering ideas, tools, and language that are familiar, compelling. Through Blessed Tomorrow, faith leaders work to reach 100% clean energy, prepare for a changing climate, and engage their communities, while maintaining the distinct voices of their traditions
Laudato Si’ Action Platform
The Laudato Si’ Action Platform is a shared space where the Church develops a bold and active response to the ecological crisis, so urgently illustrated in Pope Francis’ encyclical Laudato Si’. The Laudato Si’ Action Platform equips you to take action now, when it is “urgent and necessary.”
Project Drawdown
The World’s Leading Resource for Climate Solutions
Project Drawdown’s mission is to help the world stop climate change—as quickly, safely, and equitably as possible.
We do this by advancing effective, science-based climate solutions and strategies; fostering bold, new climate leadership; and promoting new climate narratives and new voices.
Tear Fund (Canadian) – Resources to equip you and your church for climate action
For millions of people across the world, extreme weather events mean losing their homes, food and livelihoods. This is not God’s plan, and our climate campaigning focuses on tackling this injustice.
The church has a vital role, and Christians all over the world are rising up and playing their part. Through prayer and speaking out for change, we can love our neighbours across the world and build a fairer world that works for everyone.
National Association of Evangelicals – Report: “Carding for the Least of These”
As evangelicals, we believe that caring for creation is part of our calling as stewards of God’s creation. We also believe that caring for the most vulnerable is central to the way of Jesus. “Loving the Least of These” explores the biblical basis for Christian engagement, the science of climate change, how climate change affects the poor, and practical ways to move forward. We hope this report will equip the Church with a greater understanding and resolve to care for creation and love the most vulnerable around the world.
World Evangelical Alliance – Creation Care
Love God. Love People. Care For God’s Creation.
With a global backdrop of serious ecological challenges, growing awareness of the biblical mandate to care for creation, and an increasing need to provide leadership in this arena at a global level, the WEA decided to create the WEA Creation Care Task Force (CCTF) in 2012.
Unity Worldwide Ministries - Earth Care
The Unity movement is guided by a vision of sacredness and the inter-connectedness of all, the interdependence of all life. It is a journey of spiritual relationships with Earth and its creatures. It is through awakened consciousness that we see everything as the presence of God.
The EarthCare Ministry promotes active care of all creation by cultivating a comprehensive earth-oriented spirituality that touches Unity ministries both spiritually and in practical actions.
Yale Forum on Religious and Ecology
The Yale Forum on Religion and Ecology is an international multireligious project contributing to a new academic field and an engaged moral force of religious environmentalism. With its conferences, publications, monthly newsletter, and website, it explores religious worldviews, texts, and ethics in order to contribute to environmental solutions along with science, policy, law, economics, and appropriate technology.
Yale Program of Climate Communication
We conduct scientific studies on public opinion and behavior; inform the decision-making of governments, media, companies, and advocates; educate the public about climate change; and help build public and political will for climate action.
Climate Stewards - USA
We are passionate about helping people to learn, pray, and take climate action while supporting our global neighbors to adapt to the consequences of climate change. In 2020 we merged with Climate Caretakers, a distinctly Christian prayer and action project to raise awareness of the climate crisis. Climate Stewards USA is a part of A Rocha USA.
We walk step-by-step with organizations that want to faithfully steward God’s creation. To date, we have helped over 50 organizations and thousands of individuals understand their carbon emissions impact and lower it year after year.
A Rocha, USA -Bringing hope to all creation
A Rocha USA is a national community of Christians working in biodiversity conservation to protect and restore vulnerable habitats, species, and communities.
Our programs and conservation projects focus on applied scientific research, environmental and theological education, and environmental action. Our key areas of work in the USA are marine conservation, climate action, and habitat preservation.
As a part of the worldwide family of A Rocha organizations that span over 20 countries, we are committed to restoring people and places by providing resources and community for those interested in biodiversity conservation and caring for creation.
Climate Outreach
We exist because climate change doesn’t communicate itself, even with the increasing number of climate impacts. We help people understand this complex issue in ways that resonate with their sense of identity, values and worldview. Informed consent and support from people across society and around the world creates what we call a social mandate for climate action – and we believe it’s how real change happens.
Parliament of the World’s Religions
– Faith for the Earth – A Call to Action
Faith for Earth: A Call for Action describes the essential, unshakeable reverence that all religions have for creation and nature, and introduces the world’s major life support systems. We hope the book will give you information and inspiration to learn more about our planet, to share your knowledge and commitment to care for it, and to become part of the flourishing global interfaith movement that is increasingly bringing people together to protect and sustain life on Earth.
(Download link to free report is available on this page.)
PRRI (Public Religion Research Institute)
The Faith Factor in Climate Change: How Religion Impacts American Attitudes on Climate and Environmental Policy
This report covers Americans’ assessments of the threats of climate change, how it affects their lives and voting behavior, and what steps they are willing to take to combat climate change, with particular focus on the impact of religion on such views. We also consider how partisanship, media trust, race and ethnicity, generation, and education are linked to climate change attitudes. Furthermore, we explore Americans’ spiritual connections to the earth and reasons why they support taking action to protect the environment.
Governmental Resources
5th National Climate Assessment – Nov 2023
The Fifth National Climate Assessment is the US Government’s preeminent report on climate change impacts, risks, and responses. It is a congressionally mandated interagency effort that provides the scientific foundation to support informed decision-making across the United States.
NASA – Global Climate Change – Vital Signs of the Planet
NASA’s leading climate change website provides accurate, accessible, and actionable information about our rapidly changing climate, from the global perspective of NASA. Visit the website.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration – Climate
NOAA Climate.gov provides timely and authoritative information about climate. We promote public understanding of climate science and climate-related events through videos, stories, images, and data visualizations; we make common data products and services easy to access and use; and we provide tools and resources that help people make informed decisions about climate risks, vulnerability, and resilience.
Climate.gov
NASA’s leading climate change website provides accurate, accessible, and actionable information about our rapidly changing climate, from the global perspective of NASA. Visit the website.
Caring For the Earth – Our Common Home
Links to resources from our 3 week series presented in the Spring of 2016