Sacred Green Teachings: Ecological Wisdom from Faith Traditions
Our religions and spiritual philosophies teach us to care for the earth.
Our Sacred Green Teachings poster is derived from the classic Golden Rule found in major faith traditions.
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Pollinator Garden Blog- St. Peter and St. Simon the Apostle Anglican Church
By Fran Brown
This is a wonderful world,
Our pollinator garden began to seem like a possibility when some of us spoke to Wendy and JoAnne at Our Lady of Lourdes on World Day of Prayer 2023. They already had a garden and graciously pointed us in the right direction. JoAnne came to our first planning meeting and explained the process and needs that they had experienced. At WDP 2024 Wendy was excited to hear we were moving forward.
And to my listening ears
All nature sings and round me rings the music of the spheres.
This is a wonderful world,
I rest me in the thought
Of skies and trees and butterflies and bees
With the native flowers in our plot.The Grid Plan
Building a Pollinator Garden – Another Step by Christ Church Deer Park to Address Climate Change
By Bradley Lennon
“Gardens are, or at least have the potential to be, an enormous but as yet untapped solution to the climate and biodiversity crisis,” states Kate Bradbury, author of “One Garden Against the World: In Search of Hope in a Changing Climate”[1]. Her first reason for declaring this is that gardens imitate the forest edges, replicating their ability to retain water, moderate the winds, and provide food and homes for wildlife. Second, urban gardens absorb pollution and store carbon, and they help to reduce the temperatures of our cities. Above all, our individual gardens together link to form chains that connect to other ecosystems, vast corridors that enable species to move along between them in order that these organisms may find new regions where they can adapt to climate change.
Our Lady Of Lourdes - Creating our New Garden of Native Plants
by Catherine Smee and Jo-An Davies
Several years ago, the Gardening Ministry at Our Lady of Lourdes persuaded the rectory to remove a grassy extent and create a garden. At first, it was a “no” but in 2022, we were allowed to design it and we adopted the idea of a Canadian Native garden. We began in 2022. In 2023 we received a grant through Donna Lang via TD Friends of the Environment Foundation, and we added native plants.
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