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Lead on Climate, Start with Worship
I love my church, the community, education, the outreach programs, and the worship. My church has a vibrant and active green team and incorporates sustainability into most aspects of the church life…
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Reverse Tashlich
In the traditional ritual of Tashlich on Rosh Hashanah, we go to a body of water and symbolically cast our “sins” into it, beginning the New Year with a clean heart. Reverse Tashlich transforms that symbolism into action by removing human “sin” from the water. It is an opportunity to come together in a hands-on…
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Knowing Joy by Caring for the Earth
Blessed Tomorrow Climate Ambassadors continue to lead the way on climate action. They inspire us in all of their unique ways of caring for our planet…
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Recording Available: Make Me An Instrument of Peace, Bring People Together to Care For Creation
Solving climate change requires us to work together in order to succeed in healing our communities and our planet. But in such a polarized environment, we often don’t know how to bridge the divide. Civil discourse shows us a path forward. In this latest episode of our Let’s Talk Climate webcast, Make Me An Instrument…
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Blessed Tomorrow Launches Unety Program for Houses of Worship
Providing Access to Financing and Vetted Contractors to Achieve Environmental Commitments Is your house of worship looking to finance critical repairs, upgrades, energy efficiency, or clean energy projects? Blessed Tomorrow knows it’s not always easy to come by advantageous capital or find vetted contractors. We partnered with Unety to offer a web-based platform that makes…
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Recording Available: Faith (and Climate) in the Voting Booth
Should we keep our faith and our politics separate? Is climate change a faith issue? There’s no doubt that faith communities in America will play a critical role in the 2020 elections. Our ability to care for Creation, as well as how we address systemic inequities and racism, will be decided by those elected to…
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Introducing ecoAmerica’s Webcast Series: LET’S TALK CLIMATE
The must-attend, go-to webcast discussion for the most current and best thinking on climate change ecoAmerica is introducing Let’s Talk Climate to provide guidance and support to climate activists as they seek to expand public support and political resolve for equitable and effective climate solutions. Let’s Talk Climate features seven topics: nature/science, health, communities, faith, politics, people,…
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Inescapable Lessons Offer Invaluable Opportunities – Earth Day 50th & COVID19
This is not a dress rehearsal. The entire world is immersed in unrelenting, multidimensional crises. These crises are not ideological. They are rooted in reality: nature, science, medicine, and mathematics. Suddenly, we are all living with the same mortal fear – anxiety that no ideological anger or assurance can reduce. Each of us must decide…
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People of Faith Activate for Earth Day’s 50th Anniversary
For many of us, Earth Day is a pleasant memory from elementary school where our class went to pick up garbage from a park or plant trees near the playground. But beginning in 1970, in response to significant environmental challenges of smog, automobile emissions and significant oil spills, a bi-partisan effort began to educate Americans…
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6 Lessons Coronavirus Can Teach Us About Climate Change
Earth Day 2020 comes at a tumultuous time. COVID-19 has upended our lives. The number of infections keeps soaring world-wide and entire countries are sheltering in place. Out of caution, many are keeping physical distance from each other. But out of compassion, many are helping any way they can — staying connected by phone or…
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Congratulations to the American Climate Leadership Awards Winners!
Thank you to all who joined us at the American Climate Leadership Awards Virtual Ceremony on March 25! Congratulations to the winner, CALPIRG Students, who worked on eight University of California campuses to win a UC-wide commitment to 100% renewable energy by 2025. Congratulations too, to the runner up, Regeneración, a Pajaro Valley, CA based…
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American Climate Leadership Summit 2020 Rescheduled
We must be ambitious and determined on the path forward in 2020 and beyond. We must encourage one another. In the spirit of Martin Luther King, Jr., “We’ve got some difficult days ahead.” But, “I’ve been to the mountaintop…I’ve seen the Promised Land” and I know that together we can get there.
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Toward a Blessed 2020 and Beyond
We must be ambitious and determined on the path forward in 2020 and beyond. We must encourage one another. In the spirit of Martin Luther King, Jr., “We’ve got some difficult days ahead.” But, “I’ve been to the mountaintop…I’ve seen the Promised Land” and I know that together we can get there.
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Faith, Health, and Climate: Finding Connections and Building Bridges
Climate for Health and Blessed Tomorrow invited two leaders to share their thoughts on the intersections of faith and health in addressing climate change.