FAITH AND SPIRITUALITY
Faith communities communicate our moral responsibility of environmental stewardship and how we care for our most vulnerable neighbors.
Climate touches everything. These resources will help you understand how climate touches your profession and your role for climate action.
"It is our collective and individual responsibility to preserve and tend to the world in which we all live." -Dalai Lama
Climate justice organizations
Multi-Faith Organizations and Websites
Interfaith Moral Action on Climate
Unitarian Universalist Ministry for Earth
Catholic Organizations and Websites
Christian Organizations and Websites
Evangelical Environmental Network
Islam Organizations and Websites
Islamic Worldwide Relief: Climate Change
Jewish Organizations and Websites
Dayenu: A Jewish Call to Climate Action
Hazon: The Jewish lab for sustainability
Sikh Organizations and Websites
Articles
General Articles
Religious people believe climate change is a real threat, Yale poll finds (Philadelphia Inquirer, 2020)
Religion and views on climate and energy issues (Pew Research Center, 2015)
Faith, Justice, and Resilience Articles
Warnock brings history of black faith leaders’ environmental activism (Inside Climate News, 2021)
They’re turning churches into climate resilience centers (Grist, 2021)
Faiths Institute asks Gate’s Foundation to change tactics in Africa (Earth Beat, 2021)
Louisiana faith leaders environmental victories (Yes! Solutions Journalism, 2020)
Church fights for solar net-metering to benefit low-income seniors (Inside Climate News, 2019)
Buddhism Articles
Buddhist children’s books inspire environmentalism in Taiwan (Yes! Solutions Journalism, 2020)
5 Buddhist practices to help tackle climate change (Lions Roar, 2020)
‘Buddha would be green:’ Dalai Lama calls for urgent climate action (Guardian, 2020)
Can Buddhism help fight climate change? (Pacific Standard, 2018)
Call all eco-Sattvas: Buddhism and climate change (Huffpost, 2017)
Catholic Articles
What are Pope Francis and the Vatican doing to fight climate change? (The Jesuit Review, 2021)
Crisis in creation care (Faith Today, 2020)
How should Catholics respond to fears of climate change? (The Jesuit Review, 2020)
Pope Francis sounds an urgent alarm (Inside Climate News, 2020)
When did the Catholic Church begin to address climate change? (Earthbeat, 2019)
Christian Articles
God, country, climate change: Christian perspective on a global problem (Houghton College, 2021)
Fighting climate change an act of faith (Independent Reporting for a Better Texas, 2020)
Creation care movement takes action with solar panels and petitions (Christianity Today, 2020)
Engaging Christians in the issue of climate change (Yale Climate Change Communication, 2019)
What evangelical Christians really think about climate change (Grist, 2019)
Judaism Articles
5 reasons climate change is an essential issue for Jewish families (Kveller, 2021)
Jewish leaders need to step up on climate change (Religious News Service, 2021)
Climate change is a Jewish issue (The Jerusalem Post, 2019)
Judaism and climate change (Yale Climate Connections, 2012)
Hinduism Articles
Climate change and Hinduism (Psychiatric Times, 2020)
Hindu climate activists take lead on combating climate change (Yale News, 2019)
Hindu faith on climate change (Medium, 2019)
Hindu declaration on climate change (United Nations Climate Change, 2015)
10 Hindu environmental teachings (Huffpost, 2011)
Islam Articles
What does Islam say about climate change and climate action (Al Jazeera, 2020)
With hajj under threat, it’s time Muslims joined the climate movement (Guardian, 2019)
Climate change and Islam: A call to act (Isaiah, 2019)
Europe’s first eco-mosque invokes God to fight climate change (Reuters, 2019)
Islamic declaration on climate change (United Nations Climate Change, 2015)
Sikhism Articles
Sikhism and the environment (Sikh Dharma International, 2020)
Sikhs around the world are planting one million trees to fight climate change (Global Citizen, 2019)
US based Eco-Sikh asks Sikhs to fight climate change (Zee News, 2014)
Books
Buddhism Books
Zen and the Art of Saving the Planet (Thich Nhat Hanh, 2021)
Our Only Home: A Climate Appeal to the World (Dalai Lama, 2020)
Catholic Books
Let us Dream: A Path to a Better Future (Pope Francis, 2020)
Caring for Creation: Inspiring Words from Pope Francis (2016)
Encyclical on Climate Change and Inequality: On Care for our Common Home (2015)
Christian Books
The Spirit of Hope: Theology for a World in Peril (2019)
Hope in the age of Climate Change: Creation Care This Side of the Resurrection (2017)
Eco-Reformation: Grace and Hope for a Planet in Peril (2016)
Down to Earth: Christian Hope and Climate Change (2015)
Interfaith and Spiritual Books
Rooted and Rising (2019)
Intrinsic Hope: Living Courageously in Troubled Times (2018)
Climate Church, Climate World: How People of Faith Must Work for Change (2018)
Active hope: How to face the mess we're in without going crazy (2012)
Podcasts
Interfaith and Spiritual Podcasts
Being Indigenous (Young and Indigenous, 2020)
Dot Tyler -- The youth and the climate (The Leadership Show with Andy Peck, 2021)
New book EcoBible: Spiritual beings in a physical world (Shaping the Future, 2020)
Celebrating climate action during Kwanzaa (Yale Climate Connections, 2020)
Young climate activists and the language of God in a ‘Children’s Bible’ (Yale Climate Communications, 2020)
How one woman’s unitarian faith led her to climate activism (Yale Climate Communications, 2020)
Christiana Figueres on mindfulness and climate (Climate One, 2018)
We’re doomed now what? (Climate One, 2018)
Sustaining activism through a practice of eco-spirituality (Green Dreamer)
Biomindfulness and how it can support our holistic health (Green Dreamer)
Shamanism and the climate crisis (Reversing Climate Change)
Is climate change a secular eschatology? (Reversing Climate Change)
Catholic Podcasts
The Vatican’s head of ecology, Father Josh, ‘Pandemic is a warning to humans’ (Shaping the Future, 2020)
Catholic institutions divest from fossil fuels (Yale Climate Connections, 2020)
A religious response to climate change (Warm Regards, 2019)
Pope Francis: Climate changer? (Climate One, 2015)
Christian Podcasts
Evangelical author encourages Christians to care for the earth (Yale Climate Connections, 2020)
Evangelicals adapt to climate change (America Adapts,2017)
Islam Podcasts
Islam as the deepest green root (Raíces Verdes, 2020)
Islam and ethical fashion (Raíces Verdes, 2020)
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Videos
Indigenous and Muslim perspectives on climate change (Emmanuel College, 2021)
Sikh environment day 2021 (EcoSikh, 2021)
Katherine Hayhoe - Christians, Climate, and Culture (Calvin University, 2020)
Climate change from a Catholic and a personal perspective (Roger Ingersoll, 2020)
Christians and Climate Change with Katharine Hayhoe (The Meeting House, 2019)
How to talk about climate change at Thanksgiving Dinner (Young Evangelicals for Climate Action, 2019)
The climate and the cross (Guardian, 2018)
The Bible doesn’t talk about climate change, right? (Global Weirding, 2017)
Religion has nothing to say about climate change, right? (Global Weirding, 2016)