Greening Sacred Spaces
Helpful Resources

The following selected resources are an excellent start to helping you plan your own action plan for greening your faith organization.

Overview of Greening Sacred Spaces

This Overview of Greening Sacred Spaces explains how the program supports faith communities to save money, help save the planet, and engage in meaningful conversations about the spirituality of eco-sustainability. A list of Ten Steps To Greening is also included.

Energy Conservation Resources

  Introduction to Green Audit
This document explains the Green Audit service for faith buildings offered by Greening Sacred Spaces, including the areas covered by the audit, how the process works, and hot to arrange an audit.

  Energy Action Planning for Your Faith Community
Stephen Dixon of TDS Dixon Inc. has generously agreed to share this step-by-step primer on how to create an energy action plan for your faith building.

  How To Green Your Sacred Space
Provided by Whiting Design, this document offers tips and resources for faith communities with respect to "greening" their operations. 

Financing

Faith and the Common Good produced this document to help faith organizations know where they can go for funding to help with their greening projects. An excellent starting resource for organizations thinking about ways to finance their own greening project.