We have been informed that the Fifth United Nations Environmental Assembly will be held in Nairobi a year from now (22-26 February 2021). Here’s a bit from a faith-oriented UN newsletter: Are you ready for the fifth session of the United Nations Environment Assembly that will take place in Nairobi […]
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US based network members, particularly those on the East Coast may be interested in this event. More information to come; check the Facebook event here. Breakfast hosts are the Evangelical Environmental Network, Young Evangelicals for Climate Action (YECA), and the National Association of Evangelicals. Cosponsors include Care of Creation, the […]
Dr Ruth Valerio, now with Tearfund UK as Director of Global Advocacy, is a longtime friend of LWCCN. So it is with pardonable pride that we join in announcing, celebrating and highly recommending her newest book, which also happens to be the Archbishop of Canterbury’s Lent Book for 2020. Saying […]
Filmmaker Jeremy Seifert has produced a delightful 10 minute documentary on the ancient church forests of Ethiopia. Here is how he described his experience for the New York Times: I grew up attending churches surrounded by parking lots and populated by congregations that didn’t connect their spirituality to ecology. So […]
The WEA Creation Care Task Force is holding a webinar on Living the Change: Making Sustainable Lifestyle Choices for a Flourishing World on Jan. 17. The webinar will cover the purpose and goals of Living the Change, why it is a useful and important resource for responding to the climate […]
April 20, 2020 marks 50 years since the first Earth Day. That first event was primarily a US-focused awareness raising campaign that involved millions of people and thousands of schools, universities and communities across the nation. (Ed Brown was there! Were you? Tell us about it!) Earth Day 50 will […]
How cities develop over the next twenty to thirty years of rapid global urbanization, especially in Africa and Asia, will be critical to our global ecological future. For this reason the WEA Creation Care Task Force has engaged with UN-Habitat since 2013 and has sent delegations to Habitat III, the […]
Evangelicals using 20% clean energy by 2025 – we can do it! More about WEA’s Project 20.’25 here.
One of the most important things you can do to fight climate change according to Dr. Katharine Hayhoe, the WEA’s new Climate Ambassador, is to talk about it. For this reason one of Living the Change’s main programs is designed for you to host a meal and an encouraging conversation […]
The CCOP group at COP25 and Madrid spent an hour on video last night sharing their perspective and experiences. Hear their comments here.