Across the country, churches and individuals are changing the ways we live and do business to become better stewards of God's creation. We recycle, change light bulbs, drink fair trade coffee, and green our churches, homes and workplaces. We preach and teach that all creation is very good, that "the Earth is the Lord's," and that all life is sacred.
Our witness to the justice Jesus proclaims is inextricably expressed as we care for endangered species, degraded ecosystems and the poverty of humanity. We envision a world where caring for all creation means cleaning up toxic sites in inner-city neighborhoods, providing green jobs, working to prevent childhood asthma and protecting endangered species, creating a sustainable life-nurturing economics, and working urgently to mitigate the impacts of climate change.
The Advocacy Center, in association with the Episcopal Ecological Network and the Eco-Justice Working Group of the National Council of Churches, expresses and seeks to embody the Episcopal Church’s call to educate, act, and advocate for environmental justice and care for all of God’s creation. Join us in spreading the word that together we can change the world. Let’s jump in, roll up our sleeves and join what Thomas Berry calls the "great work" of our time. It is joyous work.
This fall, the Senate is working on a national energy bill – the most important environmental bill of the decade. We need you and your congregation to work for strong legislation. Join us for GreenFaith’s Green Jobs, Climate Justice – a national webcast on the energy bill - on Thursday, Nov. 12 from 7:30-9:00 p.m. ET. All you need is a computer and an internet connection.
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Church of England launches 7-Year “Church and Earth” Climate Change Action Plan (11/2/2009)The Archbishop of Canterbury hosted a meeting of faith leaders and faith-based and community organisations at Lambeth Palace to discuss the response of faith communities to the environmental crisis. With 40 days to go before the Copenhagen Climate Change Summit the participants have pledged to work together to raise awareness about the effects of ‘catastrophic climate change’ on the world’s poor. More...
Amid Ruin of Flint, Seeing Hope in a Garden (10/22/2009)On one side of the fertile lot stands an abandoned house, stripped long ago for scrap. On the other side, another abandoned house, windows boarded, structure sagging. And diagonally across the street, two more abandoned houses, including one blackened by a fire maybe a year ago, maybe two. But on this lot, surrounded by desertion in the north end of Flint, the toughest city in America, collard greens sprout in verdant surprise. More...
The Hope We Share: A Vision For Copenhagen (10/27/2009)The Anglican Communion Environmental Network has issued a 3-page statement ahead of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Conference Of Parties (COP) Meetings to be held in Copenhagen, Denmark in December. The statement seeks to address the moral consequences of climate change and to provoke UN delegates to combine hope with realism as they devise a political system which will take affect in 2012 when the Kyoto Protocol expires. More...
SOUTHERN OHIO: Green Seeds conference equips churches to help save the planet (October 08, 2009)When Michael Schut was doing graduate studies in environmental science, he was the only identified Christian in the program. "Others saw the Christian view as bankrupt and homocentric, a cause of the problem," Schut, the Episcopal Church's associate program officer for economic and environmental affairs, told those gathered Oct. 3 in rural London, Ohio, for Green Seeds, a conference equipping Christians with spiritual, economic and technological tools to reverse climate change. More...
Archbishop encourages ‘response to God’s hope for us’ in environment videocast (9/16/2009)The Archbishop of Canterbury shares concerns for the planet in a new videocast encouraging viewers to sign up in advance, via the internet, to the Church of England’s environmentally-themed online Advent calendar for 2009, with its daily green challenges and thoughts. More...
Mike Schut, officer for Economic and Environmental Affairs, discusses economy and environment in a video featured at the Global Economic Forum held at General Convention 2009.
