Faith Groups
These links are primarily to the guidance and statements of religious leaders from many different faiths. Members of these groups are urged to include their faith communities -- their buildings, their operations, their programs -- in their carbon reduction goals.
- Carbon Sabbath Initiative
"Want to reduce your carbon footprint by a few sizes? Or get together with like-minded people and link the personal with the political? Join KAIROS in the Carbon Sabbath Initiative (CSI). CSI groups will meet in homes or places of worship to learn more about our addiction to fossil fuels, reduce our consumption and carbon footprint, and advocate for a more just world."
- Interfaith Power & Light
"The IPL campaign is mobilizing a national religious response to global warming while promoting renewable energy, energy efficiency and conservation. People of faith have an opportunity to put their faith into action and help reduce the devastating effects of global warming."
- Greening Spirit
"A gathering place for Anglicans of BC and the Yukon who share a passion for the stewardship of creation and are prepared to pledge action in its care. Calculate your household CO2 emissions, record a plan and pledge your reductions; record your parish goals and track your progress; share resources (photos, files, prayers, links, news, events, documentation and spreadsheets)"
- Greening Sacred Spaces
"WGreening Sacred Spaces is a practical program to assist faith communities in taking actions to create a more sustainable and energy efficiency place of worship and to educate members of the community about ecological issues."
- An Evangelical Call to Action
"We commend the four simple but urgent claims offered in this document to all who will listen, beginning with our brothers and sisters in the Christian community, and urge all to take the appropriate actions that follow from them ..."
- Global Anglican Congress on the Stewardship of Creation
"Our planetary crisis is environmental, but it is more than that. It is a crisis of the Spirit and the Body, which runs to the core of all that we hold sacred. It is characterized by deep poverty: impoverished people, an impoverished Earth ..."
- United Church: Climate Change
"The United Church of Canada, together with other churches in Canada and around the world, is deeply concerned about the issue of climate change. The churches view this as an issue with profound ethical dimensions ..."
- KAIROS: Canadian Ecumenical Justice Initiatives
"As members of the international ecumenical community we are called to seek ways to demonstrate actively our solidarity with those most affected by climate change and to take responsibility for reducing our disproportionately high levels of accumulation of GHGs in the atmosphere and the imprint of our large ecological footprint."
- Hunger and Climate Change Connections
"This Tookit will help introduce your audience to the intersections between climate change and hunger. Through activities and conversation, explore these intersections and our appropriate responses."
Last modified 2010-05-26
