Resource Library: Greening Your Place of Worship
See how other congregations, denominations, and religious institutions have committed to helping our environment.
Congregational Leadership:
- Plant with Purpose, Environmental Stewardship is a Spiritual Calling
- Alliance of Religions and Conservation, Inspirational and Thoughtful Devotions about Creation and Conservation from Different Religious Traditions
http://www.arcworld.org/news.asp?pageID=698
- Interfaith Power & Light, Religious Statements on Creation Care and Climate Change
- The Nation’s Health, Faith-based Groups Making Climate, Health a Priority: Public Health Joins Faith Groups on Food Access, Sustainability
https://www.thenationshealth.org/content/47/5/1.1
- Nature of Cities, How Can Religion Help in the Pursuit of Urban Sustainability?
- National Council of Churches Eco-Justice Program, Global Warming from a Religious Perspective
https://www.interfaithpowerandlight.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/climatefactsheet.pdf
- Green the Church https://www.greenthechurch.org/
- National Black Church Environmental Initiative https://www.naltblackchurch.com/environment/index.html
- LDSActionTeam (CCL) https://community.citizensclimate.org/groups/home/954
- Mormon Environmental Stewardship Alliance https://www.facebook.com/MormonEnvironmentalStewardshipAlliance/
- LDS Earth Stewardship East Coast http://eartheast.org/
- Green Muslims https://www.greenmuslims.org/
- The Shalom Center https://theshalomcenter.org/
- The Coalition on the Environment and Jewish Life http://www.coejl.net/
- EcoSikh http://www.ecosikh.org/
- Asian Pacific Environmental Network http://apen4ej.org/
- Native American Environmental Protection Coalition https://naepc.com/
Sustainability Guides, Tools & Checklists:
- Flourish Magazine, Eight Starter Ideas for Churches Who Care about Creation
- Revising Creation, How to Start a Green Team at Your Church
- Eco-Justice Ministries, Greening Your Church: Getting Started & Doing the Basics
http://www.eco-justice.org/Greening-Basics.asp
- Church of Christ, Checklist for Green Congregations: Building, Grounds, and Practices
https://www.cofchrist.org/common/cms/resources/Documents/Green-Congregation-Checklist.pdf
- California Interfaith Power & Light, Setting Up an Environmental Ministry in Your House of Worship
https://www.interfaithpower.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/EnviroMinistrySetUp-IF-Feb2017.pdf
- Green Sabbath Project, Green Sabbath Activities
https://www.greensabbathproject.net/sabbath-activities
- Faith & the Common Good, Sustainability Tools
https://www.faithcommongood.org/guides
- Kitchen Stewardship, Greening Your Church: 9 Stewardship Strategies that Won’t Break the Budget
- Flourish Magazine, Cutting Down Plastic Waste at Church, Saving Waters Indoors and Doing a Walkability Audit
http://www.flourishonline.org/2011/05/5446/. http://www.flourishonline.org/2011/02/water-conservation-at-church-saving-water-indoors/ and http://www.flourishonline.org/2009/12/doing-walkability-audits-as-a-church-community/
Stewardship Success Stories:
- Interfaith Power & Light, Sustainability Success Stories
- LDS Church History Library Goes “Green” with LEED Certification https://newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.org/article/church-history-library-goes–green–with-leed-certification
- LDS Church AEC (Architecture, Engineering, and Construction) Sustainable Design Program https://aec.churchofjesuschrist.org/aec/sustainable-design/
- Benedictine Nuns, Mormons Build to a Higher Green Standard https://www.greenbiz.com/article/benedictine-nuns-mormons-build-higher-green-standard
- National Religious Partnership for the Environment, Stewardship Stories
http://www.nrpe.org/stewardship-stories.html
- St. James Cathedral, A Greening Congregation
https://www.stjames-cathedral.org/pubs/Midst/10july/green.htm
- Sonoran Institute and Watershed Management Group, Rain Garden to Address Flooding with Desert Plants at New Hope/Nueva Esperanza United Methodist Church
https://sonoraninstitute.org/2018/rain-garden/
- Tucson.com, St. Francis to celebrate new solar panels
- The Episcopal Diocese of Arizona, St. Philip’s to Get Solar Panels
https://www.azdiocese.org/dfc/newsdetail_2/3150128
- Orange County Catholic, Tucson Catholic Church Touts Solar Panels
- Columbus Dispatch, Churches Find Savings, Higher Purpose in Energy Efficiency
https://www.dispatch.com/news/20170723/churches-find-savings-higher-purpose-in-energy-efficiency
- Eliot Church of Newton, Energy Efficiency & Community Engagement
http://www.eliotchurch.org/uploads/2/3/5/7/23574592/eliot_newton_casestudy_2014_09-26.pdf
Local Resources:
- Arizona Interfaith Power & Light
- Watershed Management Group
- Realm Sustainable Solutions
https://www.realmenvironments.com/
- Tucson Clean & Beautiful, Trees for Tucson
- City of Tucson Environmental Services
https://www.tucsonaz.gov/environmental-services
- Pima County, Department of Environmental Quality
https://webcms.pima.gov/government/environmental_quality/
- Physicians for Responsibility, Resilient Neighborhoods
https://www.buildingresilientneighborhoods.org/
- Robert Bulechek, Energy Efficiency Consultant and Rater
https://www.linkedin.com/in/bulechek/
- 4Tucson, Environment Domain https://www.4tucson.com/domains/environment/
- Climate Tucson https://climatetucson.com/about/
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