17 Mar Creation Justice 101: Implementation Pathways
These are 5 practical implementation pathways designed to help lead you forward in restoring faith, justice, and creation in your church, home, and community. Each pathway includes tools and project starter ideas. Pathways: Education, Food, Purchasing, Compost & Waste, Garden.
- Growing Together: Going Deeper Resources
- Growing Together: Session Videos
- See more in Going Deeper Resources: Session 1
- Webinars
- Host a reading group at church or home.
- Host table conversations, such as through Eating Together Faithfully.
- Expand creation justice learning and communicating about it.
- Menu Planning Strategies
- Menus of Change Collaborative
- Farmer’s Market Finder
- CSA Finder
- Farm Finder
- See more in Going Deeper Resources: Session 2
- Shifting church / home menu to Mediterranean (pasta bar, soup & salad bar)
- Purchase from local Farmer’s Market & restaurants supporting local farmers
- Join and support a local CSA
- Plant based Potlucks
- Meatless Mondays
- Become a site for Farmer’s Market in church parking lot
- Re-imagining food pantries and regenerative alternatives to food waste.
- Hosting vegetarian potlucks/picnics at church once or twice a month and host a Food Justice talk afterwards exploring the ethical/faith- based reasons for choosing local, affordable, regeneratively grown food as much as possible for the health of people, the planet, and all its creaturely inhabitants
- Supply List & Purchasing Guide (Researched & ready)
- See more in Going Deeper Resources: Session 3
- Take inventory of reusable longevity items (plates, glasses etc.)
- Purchase reusable items and for longevity (plates, glasses etc.)
- Purchase compostable items in bulk (plates, glasses etc.)
- “Mend and Share” program at church where clothes can be mended and given freely instead of purchasing new
- “Borrow instead of Buy” program at church where items can be exchanged freely instead of purchasing new (toys, tools, camping gear etc)
- Supply List & Purchasing Guide (Researched & ready)
- Composting Service (West Coast)
- Composting Service (East Coast)
- See more in Going Deeper Resources: Session 4
- Update “Trash Stations” with signage for trash and composting
- Partner with a local composting service or local farm
- Explore starting/expanding composting ministry at church; partner with organization like Compost Now and ask folks to bring food scraps to church; encourage people to begin composting at home and have a talk sharing how this is possibleStart a Compost Ministry (bringing to church / or picking up for people)
- Supply List & Purchasing Guide (Researched & ready)
- See more in Going Deeper Resources: Session 5
- Plant a church/community garden on grounds, parking lot or neighborhood
- Plant a personal garden at home or in neighborhood
- Partner with a local urban farmer
- Support a CSA
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