Greening Sacred Spaces

Organization

Faith & The Common Good

Project

Project Regions

Countries or Areas

Canada

Religious Traditions

Interreligious

Summary of Activity

Greening Sacred Spaces (GSS) is a well-established (2017) practical program, assisting faith communities with both the educational and spiritual dimensions of greening as well as the “how to” side of audits, retrofits, and generally reducing a faith community’s footprint.

Impact

"The GSS program developed a number of resources and provides these tools to help faith groups become community leaders in working towards a more sustainable future for all. Visit the website to learn more and to use any of the following tools: videos and webinars, case studies, posters, guides, tip sheets, building audits, energy benchmarking, certification, and awards."

Impact Areas

SDG Addressed

Learn More

https://www.faithcommongood.org/greening_your_faith_community

Faith Action on the UN Sustainable Development Goals

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Background

In September 2020, UNEP’s Faith for Earth Initiative, the Parliament of the World’s Religions, United Religions Initiative, and Bhumi Global published a report to celebrate the five year anniversary of the UN Sustainability Development Goals. The report featured data they had collected on faith-based organizations around the world doing work that fell within the scope of the environmental SDGs.

Only a fraction of the collected data was used in the written report, so these organizations partnered with the Yale Forum on Religion and Ecology to bring the complete information to the public here on this site as a living, evolving, searchable database. Additional organizations and projects are added on a quarterly basis. This listing is not meant to be a comprehensive overview of any group’s activities, but rather the progress of specific projects towards the environmental SDGs. For more information on a group or a project, visit their website using the links provided on the individual project page.

If your faith-based organization is working on a project that falls within the environmental SDGs, and you wish to be included in this list, please fill out our submission form. See the form for required project criteria.

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