Join Our EcoSpirit Project
OUR ECOSPIRIT PROJECT BEGAN ON THANKSGIVING DAY OF 2023. It constitutes Spirituality & Sustainability Global Network’s response to the still-expanding global ecological devastation, especially from Global Warming. If not stopped, Global Warming will extinguish much of Earth life, including human life.
The purpose of our response through this EcoSpirit Project is to promote Eco-Spiritual Communities for Survival that will ground themselves in Engaged Ecological Spirituality. The “survival” purpose of these Eco-Spiritual Communities is, in small or large ways, to save as much of our loving Creator’s sacred Earth life as possible, including the most vulnerable human lives. To support these Eco-Spiritual Communities, we plan to provide relevant study materials, online seminars, and online conversations where we can learn together and strengthen our attempt to save as much Earth life as possible.
Therefore, we encourage you to form your own Eco-Spiritual Community as a small-group (6-12 persons) or a large group (any size), and to have your Eco-Spiritual Community become part of our EcoSpirit Project. Members of all our human family’s spiritual traditions, as well as unaffiliated spiritual seekers, are most welcome to join us!
Below we list a brief 3-step summary of our EcoSpirit Project’s Action Plan. In addition, there are several Internet links below, from which you can download key inaugural materials for this project.
Three Steps in Our Ecospirit Project:
STEP 1: Forming and growing Eco-Spiritual Communities
STEP 2: Re-awakening and deepening Engaged Ecological Spirituality
STEP 3: Saving and regenerating as much of our loving Creator’s sacred Earth Life as possible, including most vulnerable human lives
Internet Links to the EcoSpirit Project’s Inaugural Materials:
2023 EcoSpirit Thanksgiving Press Release
2023 EcoSpirit Thanksgiving Declaration & Commentary
2023 EcoSpirit Background Study Paper
For additional information about the EcoSpirit Project, or to join our EcoSpirit Project,
please write to us via email at: ssgn.communities@gmail.com.
Press Release
An Urgent Global Call to Form Eco-Spiritual Communities in Response to the Beginning of the Late-Modern Great Dying of Nature
WASHINGTON DC, NOVEMBER 22.
The Spirituality & Sustainability Global Network (SSGN), an interfaith organization linking religion and ecology, just issued its "2023 Thanksgiving Eco-Spiritual Declaration: An Urgent Global Call to Form Eco-Spiritual Communities in Response to the Late-Modern Great Dying of Nature." This declaration marks the beginning of SSGN's new EcoSpirit Project.
Thanksgiving Eco-Spiritual Declaration & Commentary
Thanksgiving day is a time when we express gratitude. We give thanks for the abundant gifts we have received. For example, the gift of life, the gift of clean air, the gift of healthy food and clean water, the gift of family and friends, the gift of our communities from local to global, and the gift of Earth's beauteous family of creatures, of which we form part. All these are beloved and sacred gifts from our loving Creator.
EcoSpirit Study Paper
The young Swedish eco-activist Greta Thunberg has warned us: "Our house is on fire!" In Greek, the word for house or home is oikos, which is also a Greek word for our home planet Earth. In addition, oikos is the Greek root of "eco" in ecology and economy. So our oikos – our home, our ecology, our economy, our Earth – is on fire.