A Rocha International recently held an online “Festival” for their entire global family. Besides being a model of how to conduct a conference for hundreds of people over many different time zones (Congratulations, whoever pulled that off! Great job!), the Festival also featured several very high quality and important talks. […]
Regions and Countries: climate change
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Several creation care organizations have partnered to lead the Christian Climate Observers Program (CCOP) at the UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) in Glasgow, Scotland, October 30- November 13 . CCOP is training the next generation of UN climate observers from a Christian and missional perspective before and […]
The “Group of Seven” (aka the G-7, the nations representing the world’s largest economies – Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the UK and the United States) will be meeting next week in Cornwall, UK. Though this group has no power of its own, discussions and decisions taken can be extremely […]
We’re always on the lookout for materials that can be used in a church or Sunday School/small group setting to help people navigate Creation Care generally as well as subtopics like climate change. We’ve just learned about this series from Tearfund: Christianity and Climate Change: Do you want to take […]
“When her faith is challenged by a hurricane, a young evangelical mom must find a new way forward.” Virginia’s Calling is a new documentary film of her story. From the website: A homeschooling mom’s picture-perfect life is shattered when her home floods. Just as she hits rock-bottom, an unlikely spiritual […]
For Christians who are interested in learning about urban solutions to climate change we recommend this free World Urban Campaign Urban Thinkers Campus from May 17 – 22. While this is not a Christian event, it is co-hosted by the WEA to provide an opportunity for bringing Christian voices into […]
With the coming of the new year, we’re seeing some changes in the creation care landscape in the US (besides the monumental shift in Washington DC). While these changes primarily affect our American readers, they will undoubtedly be of interest to the rest of you as well: Changing of the […]
There are good things happening at Houghton College, a small Christian college in New York state that is doing big things with creation care. In 2015 they installed what was then the largest solar system of any college in New York State (3.1 million kilowatt hours). This year they introduced […]
The numbers are starting to come in on how we did environmentally in 2020… On the good news side of the ledger, global carbon emissions appear to have fallen by 7%, which is a record. Let us not, of course, lose sight of the fact that this reduction came at […]
The Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) is an organization you should be familiar with. With the tag line “We use science to make change happen” their website is packed with useful information. And… they are hosting an online (aren’t they all?) conversation with a number of prominent faith leaders next […]