WATERSPIRIT is a center of ecology and spirituality that informs, inspires, and enables all people to deepen their consciousness of the sacredness and interdependence of all creation with a focus on water as critical in sustaining all life.
Building a Science-Engaged Theology of Nature
£2.44 million international project to explore theologies of nature, funded by the John Templeton Foundation.
The main aim of this project is to form an international, multi-disciplinary and multi-institutional research team to investigate theologies of the natural sciences and theologies of nature.
https://www.ed.ac.uk/divinity/research/projects/god-and-the-book-of-nature
This campaign seeks to create awareness among all people about environmental and ecological concerns and thereby to care for God’s creation. The Green Church Campaign of Church of South India encourages parishes to incorporate ecological concerns in their order of worship and include both advocacy and direct action for eco-justice and the integrity of creation in missional activities.
For more, see this pamphlet.
Tarumitra, meaning“Friends of Trees” in Hindi and Sanskrit, is a students’ movement to protect and promote a healthy environment on Earth. Started by school students with support from Jesuits in Patna, India in 1988, the movement has spread into hundreds of high schools and colleges all over India. It has over 300,000 members in over 2000 high schools and colleges. Tarumitra has also had several full time volunteers from India and abroad.
Blessed Tomorrow is a coalition of diverse religious partners united as faithful stewards of creation. Together, we inspire our communities to take action today on one of the greatest moral challenges of our era — protecting our shared home.
Catholic Climate Covenant helps Catholic people and institutions respond to the moral call for action on climate change. We open policy conversation, reduce carbon footprints, and share authentic Catholic teachings on climate change. Not only do Catholics care about climate change, we have the power to overcome it. At Catholic Climate Covenant, we build relationships between people with common values and a shared commitment to protecting the people and places that we all love.
The Center for Earth Ethics (CEE) regards our ecological crisis as the consequences of a deeper malady: the dominant economic development agenda that results in the exploitation of people and nature for short-term and inequitable financial gain. We cultivate the public consciousness needed to make changes in policy and culture that will establish a new paradigm based on the sustained well-being of all people and our planet. This change in consciousness is grounded in respect for nature, scientific understanding and concern for the most vulnerable people, communities and ecosystems.
The Center for Spirituality in Nature offers relaxed and engaging experiences in nature, which provide the time and space for people who want spiritual connection to be a more regular part of their lives.
For more than 20 years, the Englewood Christian Church on Indianapolis’ Near East Side has crusaded to provide Englewood residents with safe, affordable housing.
The mission has intensified as gentrification creeps into the neighborhood, threatening to push long-time locals, many of them people of color with low incomes, to even poorer areas with even fewer resources.
The mission of the GoodLand Project is to increase the Catholic Church’s understanding and planning of its landholdings using geographic information technologies and community involvement in order to demonstrate how these lands can be a means for positive global environmental and social change.
