Resources & Events for
Earth Day & Beyond
Learn more about the worldwide observance of Earth Day. Local actions for the environment can be added to the US map.
DioCal Initiatives
Carbon Tracker
To help you understand how your current household choices are affecting carbon dioxide emissions, and to support you in making choices that are more sustainable and economic, the Episcopal Diocese of California has worked in partnership with Bay Area-based Climate Solutions Net on a web-based platform sustainislandhome.org.
Watch these videos to learn more about how churches and individuals can use the carbon tracker.
Sacred Earth, Earth Day Webcast Mini-series
March 20, 2023 – July 15, 2023
Check out the Sacred Earth: Growing Beloved Community webcasts in our mini-series in the months around Earth Day. This mini-series is designed to support churches in their connection to Caring for Creation by providing inspiration, resources, spiritual practices, and connections to those caring for this planet both locally and globally.
Check out the mini webcast series.
Eco Confirmation
September 00, 2023
Learn more about the history and liturgy of EcoConfirmation.
Holy Hikes
March 00, 2023 & July 00, 2023
Holy Hikes® is an eco-Ministry network committed to rebuilding Communion between all of God’s Creation. Through Holy Hikes we worship God in the beauty of God’s creation, in what John Muir called God’s “first temples” The ultimate goal of this ministry is to help individuals be renewed in their love-relationship with the earth, the universal church, and with their Creator.
Learn more and find upcoming hikes in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Jubilee Farm Tree Planting
March 20, 2023 – July 15, 2023
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Church Events Around the Diocese
Partner & Local Organization Opportunities
Let Justice and Peace Flow
The Season of Creation, September 1st through October 4th, is celebrated by Christians around the world as a time for renewing, repairing and restoring our relationship to God, one another, and all of creation. The Episcopal Church joins this international effort for prayer and action for climate justice and an end to environmental racism and ecological destruction. In celebrating the Season, we are invited to consider anew our ecological, economic, and political ways of living. THis Year’s theme is “Let Justice and Peace flow.”
Download the invitation to spread the word in your community
Faith Climate Action Week: Living the Golden Rule
Interfaith Power and Light has a downloadable kit for churches to mobilize and educate the congregation around Faith Climate Action Week. The kit is evergreen with great faith-based discussion materials, a Youth Blessing, and suggested activities for you and your congregation that can be used at any time of year!
Renewable Energy Developer
Green the Church has partnered with Gemini Energy Solutions and their Clean Energy Hub to help Black congregations become more energy efficient:• Introduce Clean Energy Benefits
• Schedule Energy Audits
• Solar Panel Install
• Consider E-V Charging Stations
Urban Tree Panting, Tree Care and Garden Planting
Is a non-profit organization committed to revitalizing San Francisco’s urban forest, building community, and taking a local leadership role in mitigating global environmental problems through the simple act of planting and caring for trees and sidewalk gardens.
San Francisco Bay Advocacy & Cleanup
Baykeeper defends the health of San Francisco Bay, its watershed, and Bay Area residents. We hold polluters accountable.
Wider Episcopal (Anglican) Church Initiatives
Take the pledge
The Pledge to Care for Creation is part of living as the Jesus Movement. It’s a promise to protect and renew this good Earth and all who call it home. It’s a promise to share our stories, stand with those who are most vulnerable, and live more gently on the Earth.
Anglican Communion Forest
The Communion Forest is a global initiative comprising local activities of forest protection, tree growing and eco-system restoration undertaken by provinces, dioceses and individual churches across the Anglican Communion to safeguard creation.
Lambeth Conference resources
Download the guide for resources from the 15th Lambeth Conference themed ‘God’s Church for God’s World – Walking, Listening and Witnessing Together’. The guide includes links to films on the conference web site and social media channels, documents and more information.
Personal and Liturgical Resources
Worship & Liturgy
Liturgical Materials are available through Faith Climate Action Week in both ENGLISH and SPANISH.
The Rev. Michele Racusin has written a beautiful prayer on Climate Change to be used by our churches.
Green Faith offers a collection of faith resources for the Sacred Season for Climate Justice.
Creation Justice Ministries offers a downloadable guide with studies and liturgical helps for churches.
The Church of England has some wonderful prayers for World Environment Day that are appropriate anytime we are praying for the earth.
Group or Individual Study
The Creation Care Collective is offering a Creation Justice 1010 summer intensive, 6-week program to prepare and equip Creation Care Teams in churches. Or, an 8 month program starts in the fall. This facilitated program means you just show up online to join with other churches for learning and encouragement.
The Healing Earth Curriculum comes out of Loyola University in Chicago is offers an abundance of resources in English and Spanish. This curriculum presents a unique approach to six major ecological challenges of our time: declining biodiversity, natural resource depletion, shift to renewable energy, water quality and availability, food quality and availability, and global climate change. This curriculum can be studied alone or in groups. Feel free to pull small units from this amazing, free resource.
Check out this article for understanding the different perspective of Earth Day: Earthrise: What brought the whole world to honor Earth Day? Included are links to further articles and books.
Book Suggestions
Here are a few recommendations of newer books:
Nothing Lowly in the Universe: An Integral Approach to the Ecological Crisis, by Jennie M. Ratcliffe.
Sacred Earth, Sacred Soul: Celtic Wisdom for Reawakening to What Our Souls Know and Healing the World, By John Philip Newell
A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety: How to Keep Your Cool on a Warming Planet, by Sarah Jaquette Ray
A Bigger Picture: My Fight to Bring a New African Voice to the Climate Crisis, by Vanessa Nakate
The Web of Meaning: Integrating Science and Traditional Wisdom to Find our Place in the Universe, by Jeremy Lent
The Path to a Livable Future: A New Politics to Fight Climate Change, Racism, and the Next Pandemic, by Stan Cox
Poetry
Meditate with poetry, or use with worship or small groups.
Connect with Lynn Ungar’s poem “The Last Good Days.”
All Thy Works Praise Thee, O Lord: A Processional Of Creation, by Christina Rossetti
Check out this collection of poetry around Climate Change from poets.org
The Poetry Foundation has gathered a collection entitled “Poetry and the Environment: Recent poetic approaches to the natural world and ecology.” There are many beautiful poems available online in this collection.
