Online Resources
- Rewiring America: many resources for electrifying homes.
- Jetson Air Introduces Smart Heat Pump that Features Lower Installation Costs
- Natural Gas Quitline: expert personalized help for electrifying
- New York Times, “How Electrifying Everything Became a Key Climate Solution,” April 14, 2023.
- Our home designer, Zero Energy House Plans. Video: Twelve Essential Steps to Net Zero.
- Interfaith Power and Light resource for IRA funding for congregations.
- Living Future Institute lists of harmful and helpful building materials.
- Climate Change in the American Mind: Beliefs and Attitudes, Spring 2025.
- Climate One (9/24/25): Scientists Who Won’t Be Silenced–podcast interviewing climate scientists on anti-climate actions currently happening at the US federal level.
- Katharine Hayhoe, Climate Change’s Best Hope.
- Patricia K. Tull, “A Faithful Third Act,” Presbyterian Outlook, January 10, 2023.
- Ayana Elizabeth Johnson TED Talk, “How to Find Joy in Climate Action.”
- Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change AR6 Synthesis Report 2023, Summary for Policymakers, March 2023. The most important points are summarized in orange boxes. Bottom line: “There is a rapidly closing window of opportunity to secure a livable and sustainable future for all…. The choices and actions implemented in this decade will have impacts now and for thousands of years” (p. 25).
- 2022 AIC Tree Nursery Narrative.
PC(USA) Resources
- Presbyterian Hunger Program: Sustainable Living and Earth Care Concerns is part of the PHP. www.pcusa.org/environment.
- Hunger Program’s Sustainable Living & Earth Care Concerns: https://pcusa.org/about-pcusa/agencies-entities/interim-unified-agency/ministry-areas/hunger-program/sustainable-living-earth-care-concerns
- Earth Care Congregation Certification: www.pcusa.org/earthcarecongregations.
- Office of Faith-Based Investing and Corporate Engagement: www.pcusa.org/mrti
- Presbyterians for Earth Care (PEC): http://presbyearthcare.org/
- Presbyterian Association on Science, Technology and the Christian Faith: https://www.pastcf.org/.
- Fossil Free PCUSA (FFPCUSA): forcreation@fossilfreepcusa.org
- Presbyterians for Carbon Dividends (P4CD): cbaysinger2@gmail.com
- Red Latina Presbiteriana para el Cuidado de la Creación (Presbyterian Latino Network for Creation Care): redecopcusa@gmail.com
- Presbyterian Investment and Loan pilp.pcusa.org/restoring-creation-loan/
- Board of Pensions (fossil-fuel free option) pensions.org/our-role-and-purpose/about-us/environmental-stewardship
- Presbyterian Investment and Loan pilp.pcusa.org/restoring-creation-loan/
- Presbyterian Women bible studies presbyterianwomen.org/bible-study/
- Sign up for Climate Ambassador training: https://blessedtomorrow.org/blessed-tomorrow-ambassadors-training/
- Join PEC Conference Oct 2025 or their monthly webinars for ongoing relationship-building and learning: https://presbyearthcare.org/2025-conference-registration-information/
- Sign on to climate efforts, letters, PCUSA advocacy alerts and call/write/visit your elected officials: https://www.votervoice.net/mobile/PCUSA/Campaigns
Environmental Organizations Worth Knowing
- Third Act Faith, the faith working group of the new organization Third Act, for adults 60+
- Interfaith Power & Light, a national faith-climate organization with chapters in most states.
- Sierra Club’s Beyond Coal Campaign.
- Earth Justice “because the earth needs a good lawyer.”
- Citizens Climate Lobby – advocating for climate legislation.
Some Books on Scripture, Theology, Environment
- William P. Brown, The Seven Pillars of Creation: The Bible, Science, and the Ecology of Wonder; Sacred Sense: Discovering the Wonder of God’s Word and World (and others)
- Pope Francis, Laudato Si’: On Care for Our Common Home
- Melanie Harris, Ecowomanism: African American Women and Earth-Honoring Faiths
- Katharine Hayhoe, Saving Us: A Climate Scientist’s Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World
- Leah Schade, Creation-Crisis Preaching: Ecology, Theology, and the Pulpit
- Patricia K. Tull, Inhabiting Eden: Christians, the Bible, and the Ecological Crisis. Leader’ Guide and workbook also available at https://inhabiting-eden.org/.
- Patricia K. Tull, 2024-2025 Horizons Bible study: Let Justice Roll Down: God’s Call to Care for Neighbors and All Creation.
- Also, though not theological: All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis, ed. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Katharine K. Wilkinson.
Environmentally Responsive Investment and Banking
- “Money is the Oxygen on which the Fire of Global Warming Burns” Bill McKibben, New Yorker.
- Third Act Banking on our Future Pledge
- Green America resources for socially responsive investing.
- Natural Investments’ helpful Better Banking Options
Informative Environmental Podcasts
- Living on Earth. Each episode examines environmental news and history.
- A Matter of Degrees with experts Leah Stokes and Katharine Wilkinson.
- Climate One, Commonwealth Club conversations on all aspects of the climate emergency.
- Outrage + Optimism, from the TED audio collective.
Available on YouTube
- Climate scientist and evangelical Christian Katharine Hayhoe, Global Wierding—engaging, faithful, and short.
- Story of Stuff, informative videos on products we buy, beginning with the first Story of Stuff
- “How Climate Change Affected the World in 2019” — CNN
- “A Brief but Spectacular Take on Working Together for Climate Action,” PBS — Bill McKibben.
A Few of Many Good Films
- Chasing Coral — Mark Eakin, NOAA coral specialist and the film’s science advisor, is a PCUSA elder.
- A Beautiful Planet
- Kiss the Ground
- An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power
- 2040