Tag: Sustainability

Join us at Ohio’s largest sustainable agriculture conference February 16-18, 2023, in Newark, Ohio! The 44th annual OEFFA conference is three days full of live learning, shopping, sharing, and connecting with sustainable farmers, gardeners, and local food supporters.

With 50+ workshops on everything from farmers markets to livestock management, a big exhibit hall for shopping and networking, a few happy hours to gather and celebrate, locally-sourced lunches, and much more, we hope to see you there!

Presented by the FCGG Facilities Working Group
on January 31 @ 7:00-8:00 pm

Now more than ever, it’s vital to reduce the carbon footprint of our worship facilities. Hear stories from three people who succeeded in getting solar installations on their religious facilities. Learn how they did it, how much it cost, where the money came from, and when they will see the return on their investment. How did they get members and leaders of their congregation to agree and support the idea? How much CO2 emissions will be reduced by their effort? Bring your questions and curiosity. Ever wonder if you can inspire your congregation to embrace the idea of solar installation for your religious facility? Find out how you too can put solar on your house of worship.

Register for this inspiring zoom conversation!

On Saturday, March 4, 2023, the Archdiocese Care for Creation Task Force will be holding a full-day Laudato Si Action Platform conference at Curran Place on the University of Dayton campus. It’s scheduled for 8:30am – 4:30pm and will include opportunities for prayer, learning, networking, planning, and sharing. We’ll have information on multiple topics for multiple audiences, both in large group sessions and breakouts. Visit this website for more information and (coming soon) the registration link.

The Laudato Si Action Platform is the collaborative effort of the global Roman Catholic Church to address caring for God’s creation. You can learn more about it here or contact Andrew Musgrave with any questions.

Faith Communities Go Green’s Education and Lifestyle working group invites you to a webinar on:

Sacred Grounds
Stories and best practices for sustainably stewarding the grounds of faith communities

Presented by: 

Susan Fox is a registered landscape architect and horticulturalist, having worked for 30 years mostly in residential landscape design and construction.  She has a passion for ecology, native plants, and how ordinary people can arrange their environments to be nourishing to both people and the natural world.
Lyric Morris-Latchaw  is a multidisciplinary urban farmer and visual artist whose work focuses on creating meaningful, equitable relationships between neighbors, land, and creatures. She currently tends the Church of the Advent’s Good News Garden, a community pantry garden in Walnut Hills, and grows grows food for a sliding scale payment community-driven CSA (Community Supported Agriculture). She previously farmed for and collectively ran the pay-as-you-can pizza restaurant Moriah Pie; she is co-author of The Moriah Pie Cookbook: Recipes and Stories. She was co-founder of the Hughes McMillan Street Community Garden, and helped establish Wave Pool Gallery’s Community Garden and Grassroom.
The Rev. Canon Jason Oden is the diocesan Canon of Formation for the Episcopal Diocese of Southern Ohio. He is also the parish pastor for the Church of the Advent in Walnut Hills.

This is a virtual event. Please register to receive the zoom link.

Faith Communities Go Green partners with religious communities to create a more sustainable and equitable future for all by mobilizing their moral voice to reduce the risk of catastrophic climate change.

To learn more and join the team, go to FCGG.org

Faith Communities Go Green’s Education and Lifestyle working group invites you to a webinar on:

Sacred Grounds
Stories and best practices for sustainably stewarding the grounds of faith communities

Presented by: 

Susan Fox is a registered landscape architect and horticulturalist, having worked for 30 years mostly in residential landscape design and construction.  She has a passion for ecology, native plants, and how ordinary people can arrange their environments to be nourishing to both people and the natural world.
Lyric Morris-Latchaw  is a multidisciplinary urban farmer and visual artist whose work focuses on creating meaningful, equitable relationships between neighbors, land, and creatures. She currently tends the Church of the Advent’s Good News Garden, a community pantry garden in Walnut Hills, and grows grows food for a sliding scale payment community-driven CSA (Community Supported Agriculture). She previously farmed for and collectively ran the pay-as-you-can pizza restaurant Moriah Pie; she is co-author of The Moriah Pie Cookbook: Recipes and Stories. She was co-founder of the Hughes McMillan Street Community Garden, and helped establish Wave Pool Gallery’s Community Garden and Grassroom.
The Rev. Canon Jason Oden is the diocesan Canon of Formation for the Episcopal Diocese of Southern Ohio. He is also the parish pastor for the Church of the Advent in Walnut Hills.

This is a virtual event. Please register to receive the zoom link.

Faith Communities Go Green partners with religious communities to create a more sustainable and equitable future for all by mobilizing their moral voice to reduce the risk of catastrophic climate change.

To learn more and join the team, go to FCGG.org

In honor of Earth Day 2022, Tricycle is bringing together leading Buddhist teachers, writers, and environmentalists for a donation-based weeklong virtual event series exploring what the dharma has to offer in a time of environmental crisis. This week’s events will explore three dimensions of the ecological crisis: the spiritual and psychological roots of the crisis, dealing with the difficult emotions that arise, and taking meaningful action.

Event replays will be made available to all registrants after the end of the summit.

This is a donation-based event. The suggested donation is $30.

Visit the event website to register.

In honor of Earth Day 2022, Tricycle is bringing together leading Buddhist teachers, writers, and environmentalists for a donation-based weeklong virtual event series exploring what the dharma has to offer in a time of environmental crisis. This week’s events will explore three dimensions of the ecological crisis: the spiritual and psychological roots of the crisis, dealing with the difficult emotions that arise, and taking meaningful action.

Event replays will be made available to all registrants after the end of the summit.

This is a donation-based event. The suggested donation is $30.

Visit the event website to register.

Putting the SDGs into action:
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations are a commitment to achieving sustainable development across three dimensions – environmental, social, and economic in an inclusive and integrated way.

Please join the “Cincinnati Area Faith Communities Go Green” team to participate in a global Ecochallenge and put these SDGs into action.

It’s free! It’s fun!

To be a part of the team REGISTER HERE!

Learn more about the United Nations SDGs at
https://sdgs.un.org/

Learn more about this EcoChallenge at https://earthmonth.ecochallenge.org/

Questions/Concerns?
Contact: Becca Desai at bfdesai@aol.com

Putting the SDGs into action:
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations are a commitment to achieving sustainable development across three dimensions – environmental, social, and economic in an inclusive and integrated way.

Please join the “Cincinnati Area Faith Communities Go Green” team to participate in a global Ecochallenge and put these SDGs into action.

It’s free! It’s fun!

To be a part of the team REGISTER HERE!

Learn more about the United Nations SDGs at
https://sdgs.un.org/

Learn more about this EcoChallenge at https://earthmonth.ecochallenge.org/

Questions/Concerns?
Contact: Becca Desai at bfdesai@aol.com

Presenter: Maureen Wild, SC (Gabriola Island, Canada)

Webinars are free, but registration is required. For more information and to register go to: www.scearthconnection.org.