The Faith and Science Podcast by Tyler Bublitz: A place where Christian faith and science come together. https://thefaithandsciencepodcast.podbean.com/
Green Blades Rising: An online publication of the EcoFaith Network NE-MN Synod with Saint Paul Area Synod Care of Creation. https://www.ecofaithnetwork.org/subscribe
For the Beauty of the Earth: Devotion/Sermon Resources created by congregations and leaders of the Northwestern Minnesota Synod
Lutherans Restoring Creation is a grassroots movement promoting care for creation in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. We accomplish this by cultivating a community of dedicated stewards of earth and neighbor who proclaim God’s promise of hope and healing for all. Lutherans Restoring Creation is a grassroots movement of Lutherans, driven by laity, pastors, lay professionals, synodical leadership, and others who hold positions in the ELCA and its institutions. https://lutheransrestoringcreation.org/
MN InterFaith Power and Light works in partnership with faith and spiritual communities to build transformative power and bring the lights of people’s unique gifts to addressing the climate crisis. We grow the climate movement in Minnesota by empowering individuals and communities across the state to take action that is authentic, effective, and energizing in their context. Join us in building a powerful social movement for climate and environmental justice. https://www.mnipl.org/
Creation Justice Ministries educates, equips, and mobilizes Christian individuals, congregations, denominations, and communions to protect, restore, and rightly share God's creation. https://www.creationjustice.org/mission.html
HOST A CREATION CARE BOOK STUDY!
Here are some of our favorite picks for this month…..
The World-Ending Fire: The Essential Wendell Berry- Wendell Berry
Saving Us: A Climate Scientist’s Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World-Katharine Hayhoe
Native: Identity, Belonging, and Rediscovering God by Kaitlin Curtiss
About Partner Organizations in Care for Creation
(included in the NW MN Synod Resolution on Care for Creation)
Arbor Day Foundation
Since 1972, the Arbor Day Foundation has been hard at work helping as many people as possible not just plant trees, but truly understand their value. As we've grown to become the largest member nonprofit organization, so has our passion for getting our hands in the dirt and determination to teach everyone about the role trees play in the health of our planet. We've worked with members, supporters, and partners to plant millions of trees worldwide. But we're far from done.
The benefits of trees are truly mind-blowing. They help slow climate change, foster biodiversity, support underserved communities, protect our homes, clean our air and water, improve our mental and physical well-being, curb soil erosion, build economic opportunities, and so much more. What it comes down to is that now more than ever, the world needs more trees. We are answering the call with our ever-growing network of planting partners in keeping pace with the increasing need and focusing on areas where trees will do the most good.
Blessed Tomorrow
We inspire our communities to act on one of the greatest moral challenges of our era: climate change. Blessed Tomorrow is by people of faith, for people of faith, offering ideas, tools, and language that are familiar, compelling. Through Blessed Tomorrow, faith leaders work to reach 100% clean energy, prepare for a changing climate, and engage their communities, while maintaining the distinct voices of their traditions. Contact our Program Director, Rev. Carol Devine, to learn more or explore a partner role. Blessed Tomorrow and its partners agree to this Vision, Principles and Commitment Statement for climate solutions, action, and advocacy.
Citizens’ Climate Lobby-Lutheran Action Team
Citizens’ Climate Lobby is a climate change organization that exists to create the political will for a livable world by enabling individual breakthroughs in the exercise of personal and political power.
Citizens’ Climate Lobby (CCL) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, grassroots advocacy climate change organization focused on national policies to address climate change.
Our consistently respectful, nonpartisan approach to climate education is designed to create a broad, sustainable foundation for climate action across all geographic regions and political inclinations. By building upon shared values rather than partisan divides, and empowering our supporters to work in keeping with the concerns of their local communities, we work towards the adoption of fair, effective, and sustainable climate change solutions.
In order to generate the political will necessary for passage of the Energy Innovation and Carbon Dividend Act we train and support volunteers to build relationships with elected officials, the media and their local community.
ecoAmerica
ecoAmerica expands climate leadership beyond traditional environmental circles. We’re building a diverse network of major institutions and thought leaders in five sectors — faith, health, communities, higher education, and business — who have the power to inspire tens of millions of Americans on climate change, in counties and communities nationwide including our heartland.
ecoAmerica builds institutional leadership, public support, and political resolve for climate solutions in the United States. We help national mainstream organizations elevate their climate leadership, providing them strategy, tools, and resources to: demonstrate visible climate leadership, empower climate literacy, engage all constituents, and build collective action and advocacy. We help our partners transform into national climate leaders who inspire others on solutions.
Our Blessed Tomorrow program works with leaders from across a diversity of traditions to care for creation and elevate their leadership on climate change as a moral, religious, and justice issue. ecoAmerica’s mission to build public support and political resolve for climate solutions is built on our commitment to justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion (JEDI).
EcoFaith Network of Minnesota Synods
A statewide coalition of synods, congregations, individuals, and other partner organizations that seek to promote care for creation in all aspects of community life.
NEMN--Our mission is to live out God’s call to be stewards of the earth for the sake of the whole creation.
The EcoFaith Network of NE-MN is made up of congregations, individuals, and other partners across the Northeastern Minnesota Synod and beyond. The current co-chairs of the EcoFaith network are Kristin Foster, retired pastor, and Dave Carlson, pastor at Gloria Dei in Duluth.
Honor the Earth
Our mission is to create awareness and support for Native environmental issues and to develop needed financial and political resources for the survival of sustainable Native communities. Honor the Earth develops these resources by using music, the arts, the media, and Indigenous wisdom to ask people to recognize our joint dependency on the Earth and be a voice for those not heard.
As a unique national Native initiative, Honor the Earth works to a) raise public awareness and b) raise and direct funds to grassroots Native environmental groups. We are the only Native organization that provides both financial support and organizing support to Native environmental initiatives. This model is based on strategic analysis of what is needed to forge change in Indian country, and it is based deep in our communities, histories, and long-term struggles to protect the earth.
Land Stewardship Project
The Land Stewardship Project (LSP) is a private, nonprofit organization founded in 1982 to foster an ethic of stewardship for farmland, to promote sustainable agriculture, and to develop healthy communities. LSP is dedicated to creating transformational change in our food and farming system. LSP’s work has a broad and deep impact, from new farmer training and local organizing, to federal policy and community based food systems development. At the core of all our work are the values of stewardship, justice, and democracy.
The Land Stewardship Project’s mission is to foster an ethic of stewardship for farmland, to promote sustainable agriculture, and to develop healthy communities.
Lutheran Advocacy-Minnesota
In response to God’s love in Jesus Christ, we advocate for wise and just public policies to overcome hunger and poverty, and steward God’s creation! (Statement of Roles and Responsibilities)
Lutheran Advocacy-MN (LA-MN) and its citizen advocates work for justice in the areas of hunger, poverty, and care of God’s creation. LA-MN is a ministry of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) and the six Minnesota ELCA Synods. We seek to live into the ELCA vision to "Step forward as a public church that witnesses boldly to God’s love for all that God has created.”
We work with and through synods, congregations, campus ministries, church members, and others to create and use networks for advocacy. Lutheran citizen advocates write personal emails, make calls, and meet with their state legislators (or members of Congress) to impact decisions. Lutheran Advocacy-MN is non-partisan, and participates in faith-based and other coalitions to enhance advocacy effectiveness and build political will to address important issues in God’s world.
Lutherans Restoring Creation
Lutherans Restoring Creation is a grassroots movement promoting care for creation in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. We accomplish this by cultivating a community of dedicated stewards of earth and neighbor who proclaim God’s promise of hope and healing for all.
Lutherans Restoring Creation is a grassroots movement of Lutherans, driven by laity, pastors, lay professionals, synodical leadership, and others who hold positions in the ELCA and its institutions. This movement grows out of a long history of Lutheran concern (the 1993 social statement Caring for Creation: Vision, Hope, and Justice, and other pre-ELCA Lutheran documents) and involvement (1997 formation of “LENS” – Lutheran Earthkeeping Network of the Synods).
We will work to engage these institutions in earth care in all that they do. We acknowledge that institutions will be entering at different levels of experience and commitment and face different challenges in different parts of the country. They will also vary in their financial and human resources to meet the challenge.
The role of LRC will be to provide a variety of initiatives, suggestions, resources, and networking opportunities to empower institutions of the ELCA to move forward. We believe that this program has the potential to deepen faith, increase commitment, and revitalize the life of the church.
In all that we do, we seek to engage this work as a response to the grace of God manifested throughout creation, in the person of Jesus, and in communion with the Holy Spirit – knowing that it is ultimately God’s creative and redemptive love for creation that prompts us and sustains us in this work. We welcome the prayers and the support of all who would join with us in this work.
Minnesota Interfaith Power and Light
Minnesota Interfaith Power & Light works in partnership with faith and spiritual communities to build transformative power and bring the lights of people’s unique gifts to addressing the climate crisis.
We grow the climate movement in Minnesota by empowering individuals and communities across the state to take action that is authentic, effective, and energizing in their context. Join us in building a powerful social movement for climate and environmental justice.
Minnesota Pollution Control Agency
The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency is committed to ensuring that every Minnesotan has healthy air, sustainable lands, clean water, and a better climate.
Through the authority of state and federal statutes and guidelines, the state agency focuses on preventing and reducing the pollution of air, land, and water, and leads Minnesota’s efforts to protect against the devastating effects of climate change. We work with regulated parties, businesses, governments, organizations, and Minnesota’s 11 tribal nations to develop innovative, community-centered approaches that protect our natural resources, improve human health, and foster strong economic growth.
The MPCA addresses statewide inequities in pollution exposure through its work to ensure that Black, Indigenous, communities of color, and low-income residents enjoy a healthy environment and fair treatment with respect to the development, adoption, and enforcement of environmental laws, regulations, and policies. The agency advances meaningful engagement with communities most impacted by pollution and programs intended to protect against it. Read more about the agency’s environmental justice work.
National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition
The National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC) is an alliance of grassroots organizations that advocates for federal policy reform to advance the sustainability of agriculture, food systems, natural resources, and rural communities.
NSAC’s vision of agriculture is one where a safe, nutritious, ample, and affordable food supply is produced by a legion of family farmers who make a decent living pursuing their trade, while protecting the environment, and contributing to the strength and stability of their communities.
NSAC member groups advance common positions to support small and mid-size family farms, protect natural resources, promote healthy rural communities, and ensure access to healthy, nutritious foods by everyone. By bringing grassroots perspectives to the table normally dominated by big business, NSAC levels the playing field and gives voice to sustainable and organic farmers. To do this work, NSAC:
gathers input from sustainable and organic farmers and ranchers, and from a diverse group of grassroots farm, food, rural, and conservation organizations that work directly with farmers; develops policy through participatory issue committees that involve NSAC member organizations and allies; provides direct representation in Washington, D.C. on behalf of its membership to members of Congress and federal administrative offices, such as USDA and EPA; and builds the power of the sustainable agriculture movement by strengthening the capacity of its member groups to promote citizen engagement in the policy process.
The Nature Conservancy
The Nature Conservancy is a global environmental nonprofit working to create a world where people and nature can thrive.
Founded in the U.S. through grassroots action in 1951, The Nature Conservancy (TNC) has grown to become one of the most effective and wide-reaching environmental organizations in the world. Thanks to more than a million members and the dedicated efforts of our diverse staff and over 400 scientists, we impact conservation in 79 countries and territories: 37 by direct conservation impact and 42 through partners.
Our Mission: To conserve the lands and waters on which all life depends.
Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary-Center for Climate Justice and Faith
The Center for Climate Justice and Faith empowers leaders to cultivate moral, spiritual, and practical power for the work of climate justice in communities of faith and in collaboration with others. The Center is an initiative of Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary, a graduate school of California Lutheran University and a member of the Graduate Theological Union.
Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary has long been on the forefront of linking faith in Jesus Christ to the quest of social justice. Today, environmental degradation — and in particular climate change — is a ferocious engine of racial injustice and economic injustice. The people ravaged or killed by climate change (who will measure in the hundreds of millions) are and will be disproportionality people of color and economically impoverished people, while those who cause climate change are primarily the world’s high consumers.
Our moment in time is breathtaking… pivotal. Today’s adults and young adults will determine whether climate catastrophe in its worst forms will be averted. Lutherans claim that God created a world that is tov (Hebrew word translated as “good” in Genesis, but more specifically a good that is life-generating). Yet the world’s high consuming people now threaten that very tov, Earth’s capacity to generate and re-generate life. We have become the “un-creators.”
The PLTS Center, along with ecumenical and interfaith partners, seeks to reverse that trend – to equip people for the joy of healing and transformation.
University of Minnesota Extension
University of Minnesota Extension discovers science-based solutions, delivers practical education, and engages Minnesotans to build a better future. Learn about Extension's work, and local and global partners.
Extension's research and outreach is organized broadly into four centers: Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources; Community Vitality; Family Development; and Youth Development.
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