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The Laudato Si’ study guide is a document from the Catholic Climate Covenant. It includes passages from the encyclical, reflections, discussion questions, ideas for actions, and prayers. To read the entire study guide, click here.
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Budgets and Creation Care: A Guide for Reducing Energy Consumption is a guide to help churches reduce their impact on creation by lowering energy consumption. The guide includes ideas for reducing facility and operating expenses as well as tips for implementing the ideas in church. To read the guide, click here.
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5 Ways to Care for God’s Creation on Thanksgiving is a part of the Evangelical Environmental Network Mom’s Making Changes to Help God’s Creation. It describes how a family turned their holidays into a journey of caring for God’s Creation and includes 5 tips for making Thanksgiving a reflection of creation care. To read the entire post, click here.
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Biblical Advocacy 101 is a resource from the Christian Reformed Church Office of Social Justice. It offers a definition of Christian advocacy and what it has to do with the gospel and Christian discipleship. Advocacy can be a good starting point for congregations interested in creation care and what they can do. To read the document, click here.
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Key Quotes from Laudato Si’ is a document from Catholic Climate Covenant that highlights the elements of the Pope’s encyclical. The document breaks up the key ideas into sections and gives the most important quotes from each. To read the entire document, click here.
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Climate Conservation- A Sacred Trust is a video from the Climate Witness Project about impoverished populations and climate change. It focuses on the poor and vulnerable population of Kenya. To watch the video, click here.
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Hope Christian Reformed Church in Oak Forest, Illinois, has become the first church in the Christian Reformed Church to earn the Energy Star certification from the U.S EPA. Churches earn the certification by following guidelines in reaching an acceptable limit of greenhouse gases that they emit. Hope Christian obtained their certification as a result of their reduction in electricity, gas, and water. To read more about their efforts, click here.
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Lindsey Mouw, a member of Young Evangelicals for Climate Action has been getting national attention for becoming a national activist for climate change. After spending a semester abroad in New Zealand, she was transformed and found her role as a Christian in caring for the earth. To read more and watch an interview with Lindsey, click here.
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Our Moral Opportunity on Climate Change is an article from the New York Times by Justin Welby, the Arch Bishop of Canterbury. It’s discussing faith and climate change. The article describes how people of faith are attempting to live out their beliefs by loving their neighbors and taking care of God’s creation. Amidst all of the disasters coming from global climate change, it states that faith is a seed of hope. To read the entire article, click here.