GreenFaith

Because the Earth and all people are sacred and at risk, GreenFaith is building a worldwide, multi-faith climate and environment movement.
Together, our members create communities to transform ourselves, our spiritual institutions, and society to protect the planet and create a compassionate, loving, and just world.

We envision a world transformed, in which humanity in all its diversity has developed a shared reverence for life on Earth. Religious and spiritual communities everywhere generate a moral awakening to the sacredness of Earth and the dignity of all people. Together, we are building resilient, caring communities and economies that meet everyone’s needs and protect the planet. The era of conquest, extraction, and exploitation has given way to cooperation and community. 



 



 



 



 



 



 



 



 



 



 



 




The good life is one of connectedness—with each other and all of nature. It is a world of flourishing life that replaces despair with joy, scarcity with shared abundance, and privilege with justly distributed power.

Because history tells us that cultural change precedes political & policy change, GreenFaith believes religious leaders and people of faith across the globe can play a unique and critical role in the movement ecosystem by influencing the dominant culture (ie. shifting belief systems) in order to advance long term structural change that is rooted in love, justice, and compassion.

GreenFaith’s strategy to bring about cultural change is to engage in transformational, relational organizing by developing authentic relationships and engaging with people of faith and spirit holistically: using spiritual, cultural, educational, and political tools.

GreenFaith will organize unorganized people of faith, spiritually but not religious people, religious leaders & students, and faith institutions across the globe to develop local interfaith circles from which they will act to deepen relationships, build community, and power. These are GreenFaith Circles: Communities of Care and Resilience.

GreenFaith members and leaders, in their circles, will engage in three GreenFaith Pathways to Power to achieve change: personal transformation, institutional change, and systemic change.

GreenFaith Circles work to change the dominant paradigms through learning, building deep relationships, deepening spiritual practices and shared moral resolve, and developing new leadership skills. Through the collective power they build, GreenFaith Circles will change personal and faith institutions' habits; hold decision-makers accountable, and hold campaigns to ultimately change behaviors, policies, and laws that threaten the climate and our shared future.

Together, GreenFaith Circles across the globe, will build and wield sufficient power to shift culture and influence decision-makers locally, nationally, and internationally in addressing the global climate and environmental crisis.

GreenFaith is the only international interfaith organization working on addressing climate change. GreenFaith has developed an international network that is already in 14 countries presently. GreenFaith's Circles are building collective power, fostering loving mobilization, and advancing changes in behavior, policies, and laws. They are challenging the dominant systems from the moral position of the collective actions of our diverse faiths.

In 2020, GreenFaith has just begun a multi-year launch of new international work. This effort expands GreenFaith's historic work on the national level in the US to the global stage. More than 20,000 individuals have become directly engaged in this urgent work around climate change. GreenFaith is formally launching an initial 14-nation international network of GreenFaith hubs, each populated with GreenFaith Circles: Communities of Care and Resilience. GreenFaith will also call together global faith leaders for collective action in advance of the COP 2020 (or its delayed equivalent).