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Renewal
Community Appeal
How can your faith community be a part of the solution for the ongoing care of the earth?

Renewal can inspire your religious leadership to become involved in the emerging movement of religious environmentalism.  Communities of faith can offer organized support and assistance that no other organization can match by responding to the moral aspects of public policy and care of the environment.  Let the stories of Renewal be a source of renewal for your neighborhood.

Call to Action
Fact:  About 80% of what Americans throw away is recyclable yet our recycling rate is just 28%. --Environmental Protection Agency

Renewal can help your community:

  • • See the impact of how even one group of 5-10 individuals can make a key difference in environmental activism in your local neighborhood. 
  • • Celebrate a religious holiday from your faith tradition in a new way that reflects a commitment to stewardship of the environment.
  • • Create an energy audit of your congregation’s building.

Resources
Watch Renewal and let this just be the beginning of an important discussion on the religious environmental movement and how people of faith can be a vital source of support.

Bookmark this Organization:  Auburn recommends NRPE, The National Religious Partnership for the Environment, as a best practices organization on the issue of ecojustice across faith traditions. Click here to learn more.

To keep the Renewal conversation going, Auburn recommends:

Synopsis and Purchase Information
Renewal, 2009

Renewal is the first feature-length documentary film to capture the vitality and diversity of today's religious-environmental activists. From within their Christian, Jewish, Buddhist and Muslim traditions, Americans are becoming caretakers of the Earth. With great courage, these women, men and children are re-examining what it means to be human and how we live on this planet. Their stories of combating global warming and the devastation of mountaintop removal, of promoting food security, environmental justice, recycling, land preservation, and of teaching love and respect for life on Earth are the heart of Renewal.

To purchase a copy of Renewal click here.

For more information on Renewal visit their Web site.
   
Documentary: A scene from the film Renewal

Increasingly, American religious communities - Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Buddhist - are combating global warming and the devastation of mountaintop removal, promoting food security, environmental justice, recycling, land preservation, and teaching love and respect for life on Earth. Auburn has created a new discussion guide to help you, your seminary, or your faith community use this great set of stories and go green. To find out more, click here.