New Lenten Action Alert! Share your values and convictions with elected officials — urge Congress to oppose the repeal of IRA investments in affordable clean energy, American jobs and economic development in the upcoming budget reconciliation bill.

Our public lands and waters are sacred spaces for reflection, recreation, and stewardship. Yet, they are under threat. Join a statewide movement to protect these resources at the Arizona Rally for Public Lands on Thursday, March 27 at the Arizona Capitol. Buses from Tucson & Flagstaff to Phoenix available.

Celebrate World Water Day on Saturday (March 22) as one of your spiritual practices during Lent. Get ideas from the United Nations’ toolkit for Glacier Preservation or the 40-40-40 Lenten Challenge resources and toolkit shared here.

Join advocates for the annual lobby day at the Arizona Capitol. Meet with your legislators, hear from great speakers, and connect with others who are doing advocacy work both inside and outside the Arizona Legislature. RSVP today!

Find out about Lutherans Restoring Creation’s art contest for youth and young adults! Participants will have their art displayed at the Youth Gathering this summer.

Read about ELCA Young Adult’s Lenten initiative No Plastics for Lent, which calls us to consciously steward Creation during this season.

Narrated and featuring Woody Harrelson, Kiss the Ground is an inspiring and groundbreaking film that reveals the first viable solution to our climate crisis. This movie will leave you feeling hopeful.

American Resilience Project’s film series tackles the challenge of how the utility, auto, tech, and defense industries can help modernize the aging power grid to make it more secure and responsive to the needs of its users while enhancing environmental performance.

American Resilience Project’s film series tackles the challenge of how the utility, auto, tech, and defense industries can help modernize the aging power grid to make it more secure and responsive to the needs of its users while enhancing environmental performance.

With great courage, Tribal leaders have called for the protection of the Grand Canyon and surrounding sacred lands through designation as a national monument, the Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni Grand Canyon National Monument.

Arizona's unique method for awarding water to tribes was supposed to open up economic possibilities beyond farming for the Hopi Tribe. Instead, the tribe says it has dashed their dreams of building a thriving homeland.

The National Wildlife Foundation describes the Recovering America’s Wildlife Act (RAWA) as the most significant investment in wildlife conservation in a generation. Sen. Sinema is one of 11 cosponsors oF S.1149. Now we need Sen. Kelly to sign on.

The agreement on cuts, aided by a wet winter and $1.2 billion in federal payments, expires at the end of 2026. By Christopher Flavelle for The New York Times.

The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 is a federal spending bill that is a crucial step towards finding solutions to the climate crisis by making the largest federal investment ever in clean energy technologies. The ELCA adopted a memorial on Greenhouse Gas Reduction during the 2022 ELCA Churchwide Assembly.

“Again and again, speakers at the COP26 Conference in Glasgow, Scotland appealed to the need for solidarity between marginalized groups. “Our fight is your fight,” said Betty Billot, a member of the Houma nation on the U.S. Gulf Coast, speaking about the land loss faced by Indigenous communities.”

Thursday, April 22 at the Leaders Climate Summit, President Biden announced the US is setting a goal of 50-52% emissions reduction by 2030 below 2005 levels.

River of Life, the 2021 VBS Study from ELCA World Hunger, will focus on the importance of water, highlighting how ELCA World Hunger is working with our neighbors around the world in projects related to clean water.

Please act now to reduce carbon emission to address climate change, clean up our air, conserve our water, and promote healthy communities!