Resources

Commission on the Environment

Here you’ll find practical tools, guides, and educational materials to help congregations and households live out our call to care for God’s creation. Explore ideas, activities, and faith-based resources to support sustainable living and environmental stewardship across our diocese.

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Creation Care Resources

Creation Care, The Episcopal Church

Creation Care Resources for Children

The Abundant Life Garden Project

Energy Savings

10 Tips for Congregation and Househole Energy Savings

Book Studies

Creation Care (religious or ethical perspective)

Bahnson, Fred. Soil and Sacrament: Four Seasons Among the Keepers of the Earth

Chase, Steven. Nature as Spiritual Practice and A Field Guide to Nature as a Spiritual Practice

Christie, Douglas E. The Blue Sapphire of the Mind: Notes for a Contemplative Ecology

Delgado, Sharon. Love in a Time of Climate Change: Honoring Creation, Establishing Justice

Dolan, Pamela. Contemplative Gardening

Pope Francis. Laudato Si: On Care for Our Common Home

Kimmerer, Robin Wall. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants.

Maathai, Wangari. Replenishing the Earth: Spiritual Values for Healing Ourselves and the World.

Moore, Kathleen Dean. Moral Ground: Ethical Action for a Planet in Peril

Sleeth, Matthew. Reforesting Faith: What Trees Teach Us About the Nature of God and His Love for Us

Sutterfield, Ragan. Cultivating Reality: How the Soil Might Save Us

Climate Change

Jahren, Hope. The Story of More: How We Got to Climate Change and Where to Go from Here

Kingsolver, Barbara. High Tide in Tucson: Essays from Now or Never

Klein, Naomi. This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate

Ohlson, Kristin. The Soil Will Save Us: How Scientists, Farmers, and Foodies Are Healing the Soil to Save the Planet

Food and Diet

Foer, Jonathan Safran. Eating Animals and We are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast

Kingsolver, Barbara. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life

Fiction

Kingsolver, Barbara. Flight Behavior, Unsheltered: A Novel, and Prodigal Summer: A Novel

Powers, Richard. The Overstory

Creation Care Communications Hub

Hello Fellow Parishioners of The Episcopal Diocese of Northern California!

Because we’re all caring for creation and becoming better environmental stewards, we’re launching a communications hub for our work. We want partners from each parish, mission, and group in our diocese to join us as one big green team.

Together, we can learn from and teach each other how to put our Resolution R1-2022 into action and energize other stewardship goals.

It’s a private group hosted in the online platform “Mighty Network.” If you would like to join the EDNC Creation Care Network, please email our network host, Perry Gray-Reneberg (perryggr@gmail.com), Christ Church, Eureka, for assistance with joining.

We look forward to growing this vibrant network together—email Perry today and take the first step in bringing Creation Care to life in your community!