Our communities of faith, the people who come together to worship the Divinity in such places as gurdwaras, churches, temples, and synagogues, are bound together through a shared moral perspective. Each of these faith traditions encourages its members to revere the natural world as sacred, to be respected, loved and nurtured. These moral precepts give worshippers a foundation on which to orient their lives, encompassing their beliefs, thoughts, and actions.

In a world that is becoming exceedingly complex, where social systems are increasingly fashioned by forces beyond our control and the ecological consequences of those systems becoming ever more apparent, our faith-based morality, our love of the sacred world, enjoins us to put our deepest values into practice in our own individual lives, and in the life of our faith community.

In this section, we encourage each member of the faithful to learn about, adopt and promote the changes that can be made by each of us to reduce the excessive burden we have placed on the Earth. If each of us did what we could, others would follow, and soon the world, and our lives, would flourish.

Faith & the Common Good has developed a number of resources to help faith communities and individuals to realize a healthier, greener lifestyle and to reduce their energy usage, including:

• Greening Sacred Spaces: A practical eco-spiritual workshop
• The Green Guide: What we can do to preserve our sacred world
• An Energy Action Planner
• The Greening Sacred Spaces Video
• The Green Team Guide: A Guide to Developing a ‘Green Team’ in Your Faith Community
• The GSS Practical Guide: Improving the Energy Efficiency of your Religious Buildings
• Financing Options: How to finance energy usage reductions