Greening Spaces: Faith Communities
A Guide to Developing a ‘Green Team’ in Your Faith Community
How to develop a group of members in your faith community to promote eco-sustainability.
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We are strong believers in the power of small groups to change the world. Your efforts to live more sustainably, combined with others, send a powerful message to your faith community, neighbourhood, and beyond. It sends a message that you are increasingly living in a sacred balance with creation — a spiritually rewarding journey that opens us to the beauty, wonder, and responsibility of harmonious living with the Earth.
In this guide we look at the various changes you could put in place to make your faith community a greener place. But knowing and talking about things is not the same as actually doing them. That is what this guide is for — to help you get things done by examining the processes that you might use to realize your green vision. We’ll look at personal initiative as well as the art of joining with others to create a ‘Green Team’, and the kinds of activities your team could promote around your sacred space.
This document is designed to help develop a group of members in your faith community who wish to actively promote eco-sustainability. It offers advice on recruiting, motivating, and organizing people, and provides a number of suggestions about what a ‘green team’ can do to help bring about change.
Overview of Contents
- The power of one
- Joining with others
- Developing a 'Green Team': Who should join, involving youth, and motivating people
- What does a Green Team do: Education, Advocacy, Facilitating Action, and Networking
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