Everyday Earth Day Resources

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Patricia K. Tull, “A Faithful Third Act,” Presbyterian Outlook, January 10, 2023.
January 2023 Presbyterians for Earth Care webinar: Older Adults and Climate Change
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).
Rewiring America resources on the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022: Inflation Reduction Act “Go Electric” booklet; IRA Online Calculator for Households; Information on Heat Pumps
New York Times, “How Electrifying Everything Became a Key Climate Solution,” April 14, 2023.
Interfaith Power and Light resource for IRA funding for congregations
Trisha’s webinar from March 2021 for Earth Care Congregations on Net Zero home building.
Trisha’s Sunday School class with Bishop Tom Ochuka on God’s Green Resourceful Earth, a large environmental endeavor in Kisumu, Kenya. Feb 26, 2023 with Oak Ridge Presbyterian Church, Tennessee.

As many know, food waste is a major source of carbon pollution. Here is a guide for avoiding food waste and composting instead.

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 on Environmental Justice, to appear next year.

Presbyterian Outlook article on many environmental resolutions at the 2022 General Assembly. This article and others apparently omit to mention ENV-05, “On reducing the PCUSA Carbon Imprint,” which is aimed at reducing carbon pollution from all PCUSA buildings by 25% within four years. Very important, in my view! See also the Presbyterian for Earth Care webinar from July 2022.
Fall 2020 Presbyterian Hunger Program Sustainability and Earth Care Issue, providing a good overview of the PCUSA’s commitment to environmental stewardship.
Environmental Racism and Justice (click on the three environmental justice educational videos)
Climate Change and PC(USA) (Click on 3 min. video)
Climate Justice Earth Day 2021 (Earth Day Christian education and worship resources)
Collaborative Agenda for Environmental Stewardship

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 Kansas and Sierra Club’s Beyond Coal Campaign.
Earth Justice “because the earth needs a good lawyer”—an important national organization.
Citizens Climate Lobby – advocating for climate legislation.

How to Save a Planet on Spotify. Each episode explores a single question in depth.
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.

Climate scientist and evangelical Christian Katharine Hayhoe, Global Wierding—engaging, faithful, and short. And her brief Climate Change’s Best Hope.
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.

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
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