Creation Care resources to aid us as we seek to encounter Jesus in the garden.
Plenary Session
- Noli me tangere
- World Council of Churches
- Parliament of the World’s Religions
- Creation Care overview of history, institutional documents, 2022 actions, and webinars
- SU’s Center for Ecumenical & Interreligious Engagement, along with PoWR and UN Environmental Program’s Faith for Earth book on interreligious climate action
- UN Climate Change Newsroom for up-to-date climate change news
- Global Climate Movements: Extinction Rebellion (XR)
- Global site: under “Find Your Group” there are many groups based in Western WA
- US site
- 2019 Sojourner’s article about Christian faith leaders joining XR in the UK
- Christian Climate Action: UK-based but inspiring to see what some of our faithful siblings are doing in the ways of direct action
- Season of Creation (9/1-10/4)
- Main site
- 2022 Celebration Guide
- 2022 Diocese of Western MA liturgical guide
- Anglican Communion Environmental Network
- Main site
- COP 27
- 15th Lambeth Conference of the Anglican Communion (July/August 2022)
- Global environmental restoration plan report
- The Communion Forest global ecosystem initiative undertaken by provinces, dioceses and individual churches across the Anglican Communion to safeguard creation
- Program brochure
- TEC Creation Care Program
- 80th General Convention (July 2022)
- Creation Care/Environmental Justice Resolutions:
- Commit to the Pressing Work of Addressing Global Climate Change and Environmental Justice (AO88)
- Net Carbon Neutrality by 2030 (AO87)
- Encouraging Utilization of Virtual Governance Options for Creation Care (DO27)
- Carbon Sequestration – Creates An Internal Carbon Offset Program (CO15)
- Climate Change – Carbon-Intensive Lending (CO16)
- Support Decade of Action to Achieve Sustainable Development Goals (AO20)
- Endorse and Encourage Green Deal Legislation (DO64)
- House of Bishops Creation Care statement
- Creation Care/Environmental Justice Resolutions:
- TEC Carbon Offset Program (Sustain Island Home), created by the Diocese of California
- Speaker: Brian Sellers-Petersen
- Good News Gardens
- Episcopal Relief & Development, Climate
- Episcopal Public Policy Network, Creation Care
- Climate Justice Task Force Report and Two Convention Resolutions
- Speaker: Keah Calluccie, Multi-faith Program Manager
- The Rev. Jim Eichner and the Rev. Malcolm McLaurin; Holy Cross, Redmond
- Speaker: Bishop Rickel
- Bishop’s Committee on the Environment
- Carbon Offset Program partnership in the Philippines
- Climate Justice Task Force
Plenary Videos
Workshop Resources
Beyond Eden: A Conversation between Indigenous and Western Cosmologies
The Rev. Rachel Taber-Hamilton
- Embracing Climate Justice: Exploring Our Calling
The Climate Justice Task Force
John Kydd
Growing Together: Faithful Creation Care and Environmental Justice in the Diocese of Olympia
Adrienne Elliott
- Previous Work/EDSD Case Study
- United Church of Christ and the Environmental Justice Movement
- 1987 Toxic Wastes and Race in the US Report
- Anna Peterson, “Theorizing Religion, Social Movements, and Social Change” in Religion in Rebellions, Revolutions, and Social Movements, p. 175-198.
- EDSD Bishop’s Statement on the Climate Emergency
- Faith Institutions Announce Largest Ever Divestment Ahead of COP26 article
- Upcoming Creation Care Work in the Diocese
- Sacred Earth, Sacred Soul book
- All We Can Save book
- AWCS Circles: curriculum to be adapted
- Madeleine Jubilee Sato, OnBeing artist in residence climate poetry cartoons
- Duwamish River Community Coalition site
- HEAL Act (2021) info
- Appreciative Inquiry information
Sign up for more information on upcoming Creation Care offerings across the diocese.
Resolution Resources
Considering Adoption of a Season of Creation
- The World Day of Prayer for Care of Creation https://www.creationjustice.org/world-day-of-prayer-for-the-care-of-creation.html
- Season of Creation feast day for St. Francis of Assisi. https://acen.anglicancommunion.org/resources/season-of-creation.aspx
- Dioceses of Massachusetts Season of Creation Resource. https://www.diomass.org/creation-care.
- Their 2022 theme is “Listen to Creation” https://seasonofcreation.org/
- South African Season of Creation Resource https://www.greenanglicans.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/manual-2022-final.pdf
Creation Justice Pledge Resources
- The Episcopal Creation Care Pledge https://www.episcopalchurch.org/ministries/creation-care/pledge/
- The Episcopal Covenant to Care of Creation https://www.episcopalchurch.org/ministries/creation-care/
- Our Carbon Footprint Resource (https://www.sustainislandhome.org/)
- Climate Reality Leadership Training (https://www.climaterealityproject.org/training).
- Our Episcopal Sacred Ground Program (https://www.episcopalchurch.org/sacred-ground/) this calendar year.
Additional Resources
OTHER RESOURCES
For searching the most recent resolutions of the 80th General Conventions (2022) including the seven environmental resolutions recently passed by convention go to: Resolutions Virtual Binder of 2022 General Convention of the Episcopal Church: https://www.vbinder.net/resolutions?house=HD&lang=en
To search all the adopted resolutions within the archives of resolutions of all General Conventions of the Episcopal Church (including the history of environmental and creation care resolutions go to: https://episcopalarchives.org/cgi-bin/acts/acts_topic_search.pl
- Evergreen Tree Growing Tips pdf
- “The Great Burning” article by Rev. Rachel Taber-Hamilton which covers Indigenous concerns and creation care
- This is part of the Living Church’s online magazine and their Creation edition which came out before the Lambeth Conference
- Their resource is intended to be used within congregational or group settings and includes short readings (edited for length) and discussion questions
Season of Creation Website: https://seasonofcreation.org/
Anglican Communion Environmental Network Website: https://acen.anglicancommunion.org/
United Nations Climate Change Webpage for COP27: https://www.un.org/climatechange?gclid=Cj0KCQjw48OaBhDWARIsAMd966A8dUaAO4zPLJWb72wMnQHNNlsArM6tgUgNujfBnw73f-1wV4NJTKoaAhH9EALw_wcB
The Communion Forest Website: https://www.communionforest.org/
Diocese of California, Carbon Tracker: https://www.diocal.org/resource/eco-justice/carbon-tracker/
SpadeSpoonSoul Podcast website, hosted by Brian Sellers-Peterson: https://media.episcopalchurch.org/podcasts/show/spadespoonsoul/