Tag: Sustainability

Come and listen to our guest speaker, Bob Gedert, as he talks to us on this topic. Climate change is increasingly seen as a catalyst for a spiritual awakening, prompting a re-evaluation of our disconnected relationship with nature, moving us from consumerism to interconnectedness, fostering deep eco-grief that can lead to collective action, and demanding new consciousness, ethics, and mindfulness to find purpose and solutions beyond technology, urging a shift from fear to love-based, collaborative action for planetary healing. Please register to attend!

Wednesday, February 25, 2026  7:00pm to 8:30pm

ORBITAL is a Booker Prize-winning novel about six astronauts on the International Space Station (ISS) during a single 24-hour period, offering a lyrical, meditative look at Earth from space, exploring themes of life, humanity, loneliness, climate change, and our place in the cosmos through their observations and reflections as they orbit the planet.

In person at  Congregation Beth Adam,
10001 E. Loveland Madeira Rd, 45140
In-person RSVPs to
anne@bethadam.org

OR

To attend on Zoom,  please REGISTER HERE (https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/Fooc9AErS3G4JT3YOyRgSA#/registration)

Tuesday, Feb. 24, 7:30 pm on Zoom

Hear the David and Goliath story of how a young mother mobilized almost 3,000 neighbors to compel Wilmington City
Council to postpone its fast-track approval of a massive data center, and how a Cleveland nonprofit is building a statewide coalition to require transparency and community protection. Speakers: Jessica Sharp of Wilmington Residents for Responsible Development and Molly Bryden of Policy Matters Ohio. Second in FGCC’s 2026 webinars on recipes for success.

Register here.
(https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/WReSMjR_Qoao8kft-hjJMQ#/registration )

Join Faith Communities Good Green on Thursday, November 20, 2025 at 7:00pm to 8:30pm ET

Discussion facilitated by Mimi Rook

Book: Paradise Lot: Two Plant Geeks, One-Tenth of an Acre, and the Making of an Edible Garden Oasis in the City

by  Eric Toensmeier and Jonathan Bates

LIVE ON ZOOM

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When Eric Toensmeier and Jonathan Bates moved into a duplex in a run-down part of Holyoke, Massachusetts, the tenth-of-an-acre lot was barren ground and bad soil, peppered with broken pieces of concrete, asphalt, and brick. The two friends got to work designing what would become not just another urban farm, but a “permaculture paradise” replete with perennial broccoli, paw paws, bananas, and moringa—all told, more than two hundred low-maintenance edible plants in an innovative food forest on a small city lot. The garden—intended to function like a natural ecosystem with the plants themselves providing most of the garden’s needs for fertility, pest control, and weed suppression—also features an edible water garden, a year-round unheated greenhouse, tropical crops, urban poultry, and even silkworms.

In telling the story of Paradise Lot, Toensmeier explains the principles and practices of permaculture, the choice of exotic and unusual food plants, the techniques of design and cultivation, and, of course, the adventures, mistakes, and do-overs in the process. Packed full of detailed, useful information about designing a highly productive permaculture garden, Paradise Lot is also a funny and charming story of two single guys, both plant nerds, with a wild plan: to realize the garden of their dreams and meet women to share it with. Amazingly, on both counts, they succeed.

Thursday, October 16, 2025
at 7:00pm to 8:30pm ET
Discussion facilitated by Deborah Jordan
Book: Common Ground: How the Crisis of the Earth is Saving Us from Our
Illusion of Separation by Eileen Flanagan
LIVE ON ZOOM
REGISTER HERE
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This webinar is a forum for creation care leaders and grassroots activists to analyze their communities and strategic audiences in the concrete situation of 2025. Panelists will explain how Laudato Si, Al-Mizan, and other texts set the foundation for effective action for the climate that is broad-based, compassionate, and at scale to the crisis, in light of the wisdom of the Abrahamic faiths.
Speakers include Rabbi Jennie Rosenn, Fr. Joshtrom Kureethadam, and Dr. Ibrahim Ozdemir. The panel will be moderated by Ashley Kitisya.
To register and learn more, visit parliamentofreligions.org/blog/tri-abrahamic/

Common Ground is the highly anticipated sequel to the juggernaut success documentary, Kiss the Ground, which touched over 1 billion people globally and inspired the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) to put $20 billion toward soil health. By fusing journalistic expose’ with deeply personal stories from those on the front lines of the food movement, Common Ground unveils a dark web of money, power, and politics behind our broken food system. The film reveals how unjust practices forged our current farm system in which farmers of all colors are literally dying to feed us. The film profiles a hopeful and uplifting movement of white, black, and indigenous farmers who are using alternative “regenerative” models of agriculture that could balance the climate, save our health, and stabilize America’s economy – before it’s too late.

Saturday, October 4 @ 9 – 1pm at the Marianist Environmental Education Center at Mount Saint John in Beavercreek – Hosted by the Marianist Environment Education Center, this bus/car pilgrimage visits a variety of gardens in East Dayton, addressing how communities unite in being stewards of creation. This pilgrimage includes mass.