Creation Care Resources
National Episcopal Church Creation Care Resolution and Resources
The Episcopal Church comprises 111 dioceses and regional areas in 17 nations; 100 of which are in the United States. The Diocese of Virginia is one of the largest of the U.S. dioceses with 179 churches, two diocesan centers, six diocesan homes, six schools and the largest Anglican seminary in the world.
- Episcopal Covenant to Care of Creation
- Creation Care – The Episcopal Church
- Creation Care Vision
- National Creation Care Advocacy
- Center for Religion and Environment – The University of the South
Diocese of Virginia Creation Care Resolutions and Resources
- R-1: Net Carbon Neutrality by 2030 using Net Zero Checklist, Carbon Tracker, and Supporting the Communion Forest Initiative (Adopted 2022)
- R-6: Declaration of Climate Emergency, Commitment to Net-Zero Greenhouse Gas Emissions by 2045, and adoption of the Episcopal Covenant for the Care of Creation (Adopted 2021)
- Creation Care Task Force Strategic Goals (February 2021)
- R-1: Discontinuing Single-Use Plastic, Single-Use Foam and Single-Use Bottled Water at Diocesan Churches and Facilities (2019)
- R-1: Adoption of the “Way of Love” Rule of Life in the Diocese of Virginia (2018)
- R-7a: Support for the 2015 Paris Climate Accord & Energy Efficiency Agreement (2017)
Gardens
- Creating A Garden for Birds
- Food and Faith Podcast
- How to Host a Community Garden Training – Good News Gardens
- Virginia Native Plant Society
- Extension Master Gardener Program
- Virginia Soil and Water Conservation Districts
NetZero and Climate Change
- Eco-America webcast series: Let’s Talk Climate
- Climate Change and the Road to Net-Zero by Matthew Hampshire-Waugh
- The Money Saving Guide to Going Green at Home
Spiritual Resilience
- Dr. Rowen Williams, 104th Archbishop of Canterbury: The Future of the Human Race is Now at Stake
- Young people and climate distress
- Hope and Mourning in the Anthropocene: Understanding Ecological Grief
- Public Perception: How Americans See Climate Change – American Psychological Association
- Solastalgia
- Climate-Aware Therapists
- Climate Anxiety in Children and Young People and Their Beliefs About Government Responses to Climate Change: A Global Study
- Reviving Creation
- Eco-Grief Circles: Blessed Tomorrow
- Eco-Grief Circles: Good Grief Network
- Eco-Grief Circles: Creation Care Alliance
- How do I begin to help my planet? – Green Team of St. James’, Warrenton
Establishing a Green Ministry
- Faithful Green Leaders Training Program – Interfaith Partners for the Chesapeake
- Moving Forward Guide – Blessed Tomorrow
Sermons from Our Churches
- “God's Second Book,” the Rev. Deacon Courtenay Evans, Christ Church, Charlottesville
- "Celebrating Creation Care,” the Rev. Susan Hartzell, St. Peter’s in the Woods, Fairfax Station
Creation Care Reading List
- Earth Honoring Faith by Larry L. Rasmussen
- Sacred Earth Sacred Soul by John Philip Newell
- Active Hope by Joanna Macy
- Climate Church, Climate World by Jim Antal
- Crisis Contemplation: Healing a Wounded Village by Rev. Dr. Barbara Holmes
- Rooted and Rising: Voices of Courage in a Time of Climate Crisis, edited by Leah Schade and Rev. Margaret Bullitt-Jones
- The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred work of Grief by Francis Weller
- Mystical Hope: Trusting in the Mercy of God by Cynthia Bourgeault
- Spiritual Ecology: The Cry of the Earth by Llewellyn Vaughn-Lee, ed.
- Laudato Si’:On Care for our Common Home by Pope Francis
- Warmth: Coming of Age at the End of our World by Daniel Sherrell
- Ladder to the Light; an Indigenous Elder’s Meditations on Hope and Courage by Steven Charleston
- Beyond Acedia and Wrath: Voices of Courage in a Time of Climate Crisis by Bishop Hirschfield (Episcopal Diocese of N.H.) and the Rev. Steve Blackmer
- The Hopeful Family: Building Resilient Children in Uncertain Times by Amelia Richardson Dress