Organizations Working for Spiritual Change in the Culture

Action Institute

Alternatives for Simple Living
Alternatives is a non-profit organization that equips people of faith to challenge consumerism, live justly and celebrate responsibly. Started in 1973 as a protest against the commercialization of Christmas, our focus is on encouraging celebrations that reflect conscientious ways of living.

California Power & Light

Center for Ecozoic Studies
One focus of the Center is to enable the creative advances needed to bring into being new cultural archetypes, new understandings and enhanced spirituality, through the sharing of stories, dream experiences, and artistic visions. CES will support research and publication concerning the realization of the Ecozoic Era -- a new way of living on the earth. We call this work of moving from the end of the Cenozoic Era into the Ecozoic Era, the "Great Work".

Center for Respect of Life and Environment
With a particular focus on higher education and religious institutions, the Center promotes a humane and sustainable future for all members of the earth community. Spirituality and the environment, eco-spirituality.

Christian Ecology Link
CEL is a multi denominational UK Christian movement for people concerned about the Environment

The Cultural Conservancy is a Native American nonprofit organization dedicated to the preservation and revitalization of indigenous cultures and their ancestral lands. We are a research, education, and advocacy organization. We provide mediation, legal, information referral, and audio recording services. We also produce educational programs and materials and technical trainings on Native land conservation and land rights, cultural and ecological restoration, and traditional indigenous arts and spiritual values.

Dream Change Coalition - Bringing ancient shamanic teachings and indigenous people's wisdom to bear upon the crises of our "modern" era

The Earth Charter
The Earth Charter is an authoritative synthesis of values, spirituality, principles, and aspirations that are widely shared by growing numbers of men and women in all regions of the world. The principles of the Earth Charter reflect extensive international consultations conducted over a period of many years. These principles are also based upon contemporary science, international law, and the insights of philosophy and religion. Successive drafts of the Earth Charter were circulated around the world for comment and debate by nongovernmental organizations, community groups, professional societies, and international experts in many fields.
The Earth Charter Initiative encourages the use of the Earth Charter in education, business and civil society. The Earth Charter grew out of the 1992 Rio conference.

The Earth Charter, USA
The Earth Charter USA Campaign is made up of people from all walks of life who embrace the environmental and spiritual values in the Earth Charter and who seek to make these values a blueprint for a sustainable way of life in this country. The Campaign relies on this network of Earth Charter Facilitators to introduce the Earth Charter to their communities.

Earth Ministry has recruited "clleagues" in 90 mainline Christian churches in the Puget Sound area. The colleagues lead book discussions, organize kikes and stream restorations, promote community supported agriculture and conduct top-to-bottom "greenings" of church facilities.

The Forum on Religion and Ecology
Research and outreach in the academy (universities) by people who can't write because they are trying too hard to be intellectual.

The Great Story
Traveling Ministry by MICHAEL DOWD, a former pastor, and CONNIE BARLOW, an author of popular science books, embody the marriage of religion and science as husband and wife. They view themselves as emissaries of a worldwide ecumenical movement that draws from the contemporary wisdom of those on the growing edge of science and meaning.

Green Spirit
Magazine and movement in Britan for creation spirituality.

Institute for Deep Ecology
The Institute for Deep Ecology promotes ecological values and actions through experiences that transform old ways of thinking, honor spirit, and support bold actions

The Institute for Sacred Cinema
Dedicated to the creative and life-affirming use of film and video to portray humankind's spiritual traditions, indigenous cultures, and evolving relationship with Earth.

Jesus People Against Pollution

Sacred Land Film Project - explores American culture's relationship to nature from a Native America perspective

Intentional Communities

Findhorne
centre of spiritual education and personal transformation offering many ways for people to visit, live or work here. We are located in northeast Scotland near to Inverness and Aberdeen Airports

Narrow Ridge Earth Literacy Center
From 40 acres of private land and one human's dream in the
late 1970s, Narrow Ridge has slowly grown into 500 acres and
a non-profit center near Knoxville, Tennessee. Ecological
programs and retreat activities are its livelihood, set amidst its
continuing interests in community, sustainability and spirituality.

The Wooded Way
This virtual community is for people who have an interest in developing ACTUAL alternative lifestyle communities based around Gaia Consciousness.

Surely there are many communities with environment and spirituality as their foundation, yes? But searching the Fellowship of Intentional Communities web site was fruitless. Perhaps you know something? Do tell . . .

Service

I thought I'd find some faith-based Americorps program focusing on the environment, but no! The faith-based programs I know might have a few scattered positions in environmental organizations, but predominantly they were with issues of poverty. But perhaps you can add your knowledge to this list?

Schools and Study Centers

Articles On Line

Bible Passages (fundamentalist perspective)

Charles Cummings in Spirituality Today Magazine
The term "eco-spirituality" draws attention to the cosmos as a place of God's self-revelation.

The Earth Charter
The Earth Charter is an authoritative synthesis of values, principles, and aspirations that are widely shared by growing numbers of men and women in all regions of the world. The principles of the Earth Charter reflect extensive international consultations conducted over a period of many years. These principles are also based upon contemporary science, international law, and the insights of philosophy and religion. Successive drafts of the Earth Charter were circulated around the world for comment and debate by nongovernmental organizations, community groups, professional societies, and international experts in many fields.

EarthLight Magazine Library

THE ECOZOIC READER

Interview with Thomas Berry, published in The Sun

Introduction to Thomas Berry (an academic paper)

HereNow4U

Resurgence Magazine

Sojourners (SoJoNet)
There is a rich archive of articles, with a bent toward issues of justice, but you have to use the search function to get them.

Theology of the Environment: Directory of articles

Native American Environmental Spirituality

Magazines

EarthLight
The Magazine of Spiritual Ecology. To cultivate the awareness that Earth is a sacred community of life to be cherished, protected, and restored, not a commodity to be exploited. We see the human as one strand in an evolving, dynamic, sacred Universe Story.

Earth Ethics
focus on sustainable practices in education, religion, the arts, business, agriculture, and other fields. The journal promotes alternative models for sustainable communities and lifestyles, based in ecospiritual practice and principles. Book reviews, event calendars, and feature articles bring fresh resources

Heron Dance Art Studio
a work of love, an effort to produce something that is thought-provoking and unique; that has a sense of peace about it and an aesthetic beauty; Heron Dance is a celebration of the gift of life and the seeker's journey and the spirit and beauty of all that is wild.

Resergence A British gem

Shambhala Sun
Bringing a Buddhist view to all the important issues in modern life. Buddism. Culture. Meditation. Life.

The Trumpeter: Journal of Ecosophy

Cross Currents
CrossCurrents is a global network for people of faith and intelligence who are committed to connecting the wisdom of the heart and the life of the mind. In print, online and in real time, we bring people together across lines of difference around issues of common concern.

Prophets

Thomas Berry, Brian Swimme, Matthew Fox, Teilhard de Chardin, Joanna Macy, Charles Cummings, Wendell Berry, Bill McKibben, Vandana Shiva, Rabbi Arthur Waskow, Paul Gorman

Denominational and Interfaith Religious Organizations for the Environment