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Can Religion Save the Environment? is a twenty-five minute video on Cambodia’s indigenous Chong people as they are led by Buddhist monks to protest the construction of a hydroelectric dam. The dam would displace the Chong and destroy their ancestral forest home. This is an example of how China is beginning to draw on its religious traditions to help address serious environmental challenges. To watch the video, click here.
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GreenFaith and The Story of Stuff Project have teamed up to create Let There Be… Stuff?. It is a six-week session for teenagers that explores the relationship between consumption, faith, and the health of the planet. They offer a Christian and a Jewish version. To learn how to download Let There Be… Stuff?, click here.
To watch The Story of Stuff and read more on their work, click here.
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GreenFaith has created a resource for grounds maintenance that has tips on how to consider the environment while landscaping. The article offers guidelines on pest management, turf maintenance, cultural practices, and irrigation tips. To read the entire post, click here.
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Food Waste: By the Numbers is an article from the Evangelical Environmental Network (EEN) on the statistics of food waste in the United States. The article states that 40% of our food that is grown gets wasted. It then goes on to discuss steps to reduce food waste and how to be more aware. To read the entire article, click here.
To read another post from EEN about food waste, click here.
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Evangelical Environment Network has released its Creation Care Sermon Starter for the month of February, Christ, Creator. It focuses on the beginning of the world and how important it is to take care of it. It emphasizes scriptures John 1:1-18; 1 Corinthians 8:6; Hebrews 1:1-3, and Colossians 1:15-20. To read or download this sermon starter, click here.
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Interfaith Power &Light (IPL) is hosting Faith Climate Action Week, which is the week leading up to Earth Day. The theme this year is Charged with Faith: Leading the way to a clean energy future. IPL has released the pre-registration to be the first to have access to the Faith Climate Action Week Kits and to be updated about available resources. To pre-register, click here.
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The Evangelical Environment Network released an article about the recent threats to public lands, specifically Grand Staircase-Escalante and Bears Ears. They believe that public lands such as these make what belongs to God available to everyone and “To step into a National Park or Forest or National Monument and enjoy the beauty of God’s creation is to experience freedom and the richness of life as persons made in the image of God.” Therefore, it is the responsibility of Christians to be good stewards of the earth and protect these lands. To read the entire article, click here.
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Teaching Preschoolers to Pray for God’s Creation is an article from Evangelical Environmental Network on the importance of prayer at an early age. The article discusses how to introduce prayer into the life of a young child and more specifically how to pray for God’s creation. To read the entire article, click here.
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As for that in the good soil, they are those who, hearing the word, hold it fast in an honest and good heart, and bear fruit with patience.- Luke 8:15
Food Waste: No one is Perfect, so Compost is an article from the Evangelical Environmental Network that describes how to reduce food waste. It focuses on composting as a way to reduce the amount of waste created in the kitchen and gives tips on how to efficiently compost. To read the entire article, click here.
To read another post from EEN, click here.