Project Background
This project aims to empower faith communities with the knowledge and tools to address climate change realities and become centers of resilience for their communities. This project will engage faith communities in social learning on the connections between their experience of extreme weather and the science of climate change; facilitate a series of workshops in which faith communities engage with local scientists, planners, and decision-makers around climate resilience to extreme weather and climate change; and guide congregations through a resilience implementation and educational project. The project team will work with predominantly Black, Indigenous, and other faith communities of color in Mathews County, VA, Wicomico County, MD, and Beaufort and Pamlico Counties, NC.
Our Goals
The goal of this project is to create networks of faith communities that are educated on the realities of climate change and able to serve as hubs of social and physical resilience for their communities – helping them better weather the physical, social, and spiritual storms of the climate crisis.
Outcomes
1. Increased social cohesion and networks of accountability between local faith communities, planners, and decision-makers
2. Faith community members educated with the knowledge, skills, and confidence to reason about the interaction of human and natural systems globally and locally, with a specific focus on the inequities of climate change vulnerabilities
3. Faith community members empowered and prepared to educate their communities about climate impacts, participate in civic processes around climate adaptation, mitigation, and resilience, and serve as trusted community leaders when climate disasters occur
4. Congregations with the infrastructure to continue integrating resilience and climate change education in the life of their church and local community
2. Faith community members educated with the knowledge, skills, and confidence to reason about the interaction of human and natural systems globally and locally, with a specific focus on the inequities of climate change vulnerabilities
3. Faith community members empowered and prepared to educate their communities about climate impacts, participate in civic processes around climate adaptation, mitigation, and resilience, and serve as trusted community leaders when climate disasters occur
4. Congregations with the infrastructure to continue integrating resilience and climate change education in the life of their church and local community
Our Partners
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Virginia IPL
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EcoJustice Connection of the North Carolina Council of Churches
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Interfaith Power and Light DC.MD.NoVA
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Locations
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Mathews County, VA
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Wicomico County, MD
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Pamlico County, NC
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Beaufort County, NC
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Contact Info
Maryland: Robin Lewis, [email protected]
Virginia: Faith Harris, [email protected]
North Carolina: Susannah Tuttle, [email protected]
Virginia: Faith Harris, [email protected]
North Carolina: Susannah Tuttle, [email protected]
Funded By
This project is funded by a generous grant from the NOAA Environmental Literacy Program
