What's New
2012 is the year of Ethics of Energy. Click here to learn more.
Chesapeake Covenant Community works with Washington DC metro community to start a Watershed Stewards Academy designed specifically for the faith community. Click here to learn more
Church in Elizabethton, Tennessee organizes concert to stop mountaintop removal coal mining. Click here for the story. 
New resource for 2012: Ethics of Energy Year! Energy Stewardship: Using Smart Grids and Emerging Technologies for Protecting God's Creation We all use energy in our personal lives, work lives, and faith lives. Yet, our use of energy often comes at a cost to God’s planet and people. This guide educates readers about emerging technologies such as smart grids that can help reduce energy usage. Click here to download.
Take Action
Stop mountaintop removal coal mining. Click here to sign our petition to stop this unusually cruel and irreversibly damaging practice that harms God's Creation and vulnerable communities.
Protect the Clean Air Act. Right now, elected officials are trying to 
limit the Clean Air Act's ability to regulate pollution. Click here to tell your U.S. Senators to protect communities and God's Creation by protecting the Clean Air Act.
Grandparents, great aunts and uncles, and all seniors: Safeguard today's children and future generations from toxic chemicals and chronic illness. Click here to sign the letter.
Call for Environmental and Economic Justice for the Bristol Bay in Alaska. The world's largest open-pit gold and copper mine is being set up at the headwaters of the world's richest salmon-filled waters, despite opposition of Alaskan Natives. Click here to ask the EPA to save the Bristol Bay.
Eco-Justice Spotlight
The more than 300 health and human services organizations that are members of Lutheran Services in America are going green. Click here to read about how agencies are going energy efficient and offering green housing.
Read previous spotlight stories here.
Upcoming Events
Smart Grid Webinar: Using Emerging Technologies for Energy Stewardship Friday, Feb. 10 at 1:00pm EST. Learn how emerging technologies such as smart grids can help save energy in our personal lives, work lives, and faith lives. This webinar will explore, from a faith perspective, issues related to smart grid technology. Click here to register.
Ecumenical Advocacy Days. March 23-25 in Washington, DC. "Is this the Fast I Seek? Economic Justice, Livelihood, and Our National Priorities." Click here to see workshops we'll offer in the eco-justice track.
Moravian Environmental Stewardship Conference March 23-25 in Laurel Ridge, NC. Get more information here.
Food, Glorious Food: The Eucharist and Your Foodshed. June 18-24, join this seminar from the Earth-Honoring Faith Series at the Ghost Ranch in New Mexico. Click here to learn more.
