Growing a Green Church

How Your Church Can Save Energy and Reduce Emissions

Because every church is different, architects recommend that churches looking to decrease energy usage start with an energy audit.

New ‘Game-Changing’ Incentives Open Way for More Churches to Fill Gaps in Community Solar

The Inflation Reduction Act's direct pay incentive could inspire and empower more churches to address national disparities in community solar.

California Church Plants Drought-Resistant Native Species In Its Gardens, Becomes Part of Its Natural Environment

The Episcopal Church seeks to connect Episcopalians and others around gardening and growing food through its Good News Gardens movement.

Solar Power Spreads in Appalachia as Churches Take Action

The challenges of getting solar adoption in Appalachia are manifold, where less than 1 percent of houses of worship have solar.

Demographic Changes Leave Many Churches With a Sustainability Dilemma

Demographic shifts have led to congregations becoming older and smaller, leaving a handful of people to care for a large, older building.

Kenyan Coffee Farm Spreads Conservation Skills to Local Community

Surrounded by hills, valleys, dirt roads and vast, uncultivated, semi-arid lands dotted with acacia trees and cacti sits the Archdiocese of Nyeri's Nyeri Hill...

Can Money-Making Microgrids Empower Black Churches to Close the Clean Energy Gap?

Gemini Energy Solutions and Green The Church want America's Black churches to transform into clean energy hubs.

Laudato Trees Planting Program Enlists Catholic Properties to Help Increase DC’s Canopy

Laudato Trees works to more deeply ingrain and church teachings around environmental justice across the Washington Archdiocese.