The Climate Resilience Ministry is currently engaged in a National Academies of Sciences Engineering and Medicine grant titled, From Resilience to Restoration: Leveraging Houses of Faith to Move the Gulf South. The primary on the grant is Peoples’ Justice Council, a group of theologians engaged in environmental justice work. UUJF was asked to participate by Gulf Coast Creation Care. Toward this effort, UUJF is doing interfaith work to identify two church campuses interested in becoming clean energy and resilience resource and learning centers: one in the Panhandle and one in Central Florida. These resource and learning centers will provide support to other houses of faith that want to serve their communities as Resource to Restoration Hubs. The hubs will be able to demonstrate the centralized, online database of resources adapted by individual houses of faith to create local From Resilience to Restoration plans in the most vulnerable communities. If your congregation is interested in creating a From Resilience to Restoration plan to serve your community, please contact Jan BooherHBE@gmail.com. This post was supported by the Gulf Research Program of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, under award number 200013216.communities.
