The RENEWAL Documentary
Across the nation, people of faith are standing up for the environment. Evangelical Christians are fighting mountaintop removal, a coal mining process that is decimating Appalachia. Muslims are supporting sustainable farming.
Jews are helping children experience the bond between nature and spirituality. Interfaith Power and Light is mobilizing people of all faiths in a religious response to global warming.
For the first time, the combined energy of these diverse activists is the driving force behind a feature-length documentary, entitled RENEWAL. Veteran film producers Marty Ostrow and Terry Kay Rockefeller have crisscrossed the country to capture these exciting stories of people whose passion and deep moral commitment are making a difference in a time of grave ecological threats.
The RENEWAL Project and the Religious-Environmental Movement
The RENEWAL Project has been designed to make the documentary and its inspiring stories available to people and organizations who want to be a part of this growing movement to protect life on our planet and reverse the damage that humans have done to the environment.
On this website, you can learn about how RENEWAL is being used by communities across America to help build the religious-environmental movement. It is also a place for you to connect with others who are doing this important work and for you to share stories about your own experience.
Please take a few minutes to explore how you can get involved today!
United Church of Christ
Launches Visionary
E-J Leadership Training Program
Best of Fest
An audience voted award!
Sunday School Series
“RENEWAL LA”
April 25, 2010
To honor Earth Day’s 40th Anniversary, the RENEWAL Project and California Interfaith Power and Light (CIPL) coordinate a major interfaith event in Los Angeles, focusing on climate-change and environmental-justice.
Special guest speakers: Bill McKibben, Mary Nichols
New—for Faith Leaders
Educational Materials and Resources
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The religious environmental movement is potentially key to dealing with the greatest problem humans have ever faced, and it has never been captured with more breadth and force than in RENEWAL. I hope this movie is screened in church basements and synagogue social halls across the country, and that it moves many more people of faith off the fence and into action.—Bill McKibben
RENEWAL offers a comprehensive overview of what different religions are doing about the awesome devastation of Earth’s life systems now taking place. The filmmakers’ vision of the problem and understanding of viable solutions show rare depth of perception and are matched only by their sense of the urgency of action if we are to realize our hopes for the future.—Thomas Berry
The Renewal Project honors the memory of the late cultural historian, Thomas Berry.