I’ve compiled a list of references about partnership between faith communities and care for our environment:

* The National Religious Partnership for the Environment

* The World Council of Churches environmental support information

* The National Council of Churches open letter about the environment

* California Interfaith Power and Light, responding to global warming

* Evangelical program Creation Care

* The National Association of Evangelicals document “For the Health of the Nation” which includes the statement: “We are not the owners of creation, but its stewards, summoned by God to ‘watch over and care for it.’ This implies the principle of sustainability: our uses of the Earth must be designed to conserve and renew the Earth rather than to deplete or destroy it.” (Biblical quote contained within is from Gen 2:15)

* The Coalition on the Environment and Jewish Life

* The Simple Living Network

* Discussion, and illustrations of multiple world religions.

* Gary Gardner, “Invoking the Spirit: Religion and Spirituality in the Quest for a Sustainable World,” Worldwatch Paper #164 (free pdf download)

* Erik Hoffner discusses religion and environmentalism in his article “Faith–based Environmentalism”, Orion Magazine, January-February 2005. (not online)

* The Catholic position on population growth is interwoven with an admirable vision for social and developmental growth that is remarkably similar to UN developmental goals for least-developed nations. Scroll down to the heading “Global Climate Change and Population Growth.”

* “A child born in a wealthy country is likely to consume, waste and pollute more in his lifetime than 50 children born in developing nations.” George Carey, Archbishop of Canterbury, UK, quoted in Guy Dauncey, Stormy Weather, p.25

* Consumption of world resources at “Ecological Footprint of Nations, 2004“, United Nations: “… the United States has the world’s largest Footprint at 9.57 hectares (23.7 acres) per person - a sustainable Footprint would be 1.88 hectares (4.6 acres)”

* ‘It is manifestly unjust that a privileged few should continue to accumulate excess goods, squandering available resources, while masses of people are living in conditions of misery at the very lowest level of subsistence. Today, the dramatic threat of ecological breakdown is teaching us the extent to which greed and selfishness — both individual and collective — are contrary to the order of creation, an order which is characterized by mutual interdependence.’ Message of Pope John Paul II for the 1990 World Day of Peace on the theme “Peace with God the Creator, Peace with All of Creation”. 8 December 1989