GreenFaith is building a worldwide, multi-faith climate and environmental movement because the Earth and all people are sacred and at risk. Recognizing that the most vulnerable among us—who’ve done nothing to create the climate crisis—and the planet are suffering while governments, extractive industries, and financial institutions continue to destroy the fabric of life, GreenFaith members and local Circles around the globe are rising together to end the era of extraction and exploitation and create bold transformation. Together, members create communities to transform themselves, their spiritual institutions, and society to protect the planet and create a compassionate, loving, and just world. GreenFaith envisions a world transformed, in which humanity in all its diversity has developed a shared reverence for life on Earth, where religious and spiritual communities everywhere generate a moral awakening to the sacredness of Earth and the dignity of all people. Together, GreenFaith is building resilient, caring communities and economies that meet everyone’s needs and protect the planet, where the era of conquest, extraction, and exploitation has given way to cooperation and community, and where the good life is one of connectedness—with each other and all of nature—replacing despair with joy, scarcity with shared abundance, and privilege with justly distributed power.
Why it matters: It mobilizes religious and spiritual communities to generate the moral awakening necessary to end extraction and exploitation, recognizing that protecting the planet requires spiritual transformation alongside political and economic change. By centering those most vulnerable to climate crisis who are least responsible for creating it, GreenFaith demonstrates that justice is inseparable from environmental action. Through local Circles rising together globally, GreenFaith proves that resilient communities and economies meeting everyone’s needs aren’t utopian fantasies but achievable realities when diverse faith traditions unite around shared reverence for life.