Find Your Way Home to Climate Care

This Great Idea builds on From Fear to Fire: Igniting Community for a Planet in Peril, the 2026 EcoFaith Summit of the Upper Midwest, where discussions of expanding congressional climate care encouraged us all to be community organizers for the sake of our shared home.

Rebecca Solnitt’s post, Truth, Consequences, Climate, and Demand Destruction (Meditations in an Emergency; 05.03.26) offers an ultra-current account of where we are in proximity to climate catastrophe – and the astounding possibility of turning it around.

  • She frames her positive climate outlook, ironically, in the tragedy of the Iran War, writing, ‘This is how the attack on one per-state (ours) on another (Iran’s) may be turning out to be very bad for petroleum, because the only ting history loves more than a surprise party is irony.’
  • For folx who like data and graphs: she’s got some good ones on grid batteries!
  • Her P.S. on renewables and the constant rebuttal regarding batteries and rare earth minerals is spot-on and not to be missed – and includes another graph.
  • Her ‘Further Reading’ suggestion from The Guardian, ‘unpacks the way that national debts drive global-south countries into fossil-fuel production and the case that debt relief needs to be part of climate action’. Another important discussion!

Dig more deeply with:

  • Enough Is Enough: Degrowth, Capitalism, and Liberation Theology (Fortress), which defines ‘degrowth’ as ‘rejecting economic growth as the measure for social progress’ and asserts, ‘In a moment of climate crisis, Christians can orient themselves according to alternative values rooted in a relationship with creation that sees all creatures as siblings’.

See also:

  • Building a Moral Economy: Ecological, Equitable, Democracy: Pathways for People of Courage – the website offers links to all the books in the series and action.
    • Building a Moral Economy: Pathways for People of Courage (Fortress, 2024) is the grounding book of the series…
      • (and was authored by Dr. Cynthia Moe-Lobeda, our keynote presenter for 2025 EcoFaith Summit!).
      • We’re collaborating with the authors and producers of the series to create an intergenerational Toolkit! Keep an eye out!
    • Building a Moral Economy: Climate Justice, Climate Hope (Fortress 2025) – ‘an invitation’ to ‘cultivate a sense of community with p people around the world who are working for climate justice and economies with justice and joy for all living beings’.
    • The latest installment: Building a Moral Economy: A Home for All (Fortress, 2026), ‘guides readers into a worldview that treats economies as webs of relationship and, therefore, as moral matters subject to the call of neighbor-love and justice… [focusing] on what individuals and communities are doing in response to their anger and lament at housing injustice… and how they are building bridges with one another to create flourishing communities where people are both housed and at home.’

Ready to build community around action?

  • Katharine K. Wilkinson’s Climate Wayfinding: Healing Ourselves and the Planet We Call Home (Amber Lotus) considers how we find our way ‘when the path ahead is uncertain’, and ‘offers a compassionate and empowering guide to navigating from ache to action, doubt to possibility’.
  • The Climate Wayfinding website offers:
    • Additional Resources
    • Training to host action cohorts and reading groups in your community.
    • Learn more about Reading Groups and how you can ‘do’ Climate Wayfinding together – with friends, neighbors, co-owrkers, students, or broader community members – by moving ‘through ache to action, doubt to possibility’.

Looking for a climate care based youth summer camp?

The UCC’s Freshwater Faithworks is rolling out pilot programs ‘focusing on the intersection of freshwater ecology and faith’. Two experiences will be available:

Click either link to learn more and register soon!