Renewal is a groundbreaking 90-minute documentary film about people of diverse faiths who have experienced a calling to become better stewards of the earth. It is the first film account of the growth of America’s religious-environmental movement. Eight grassroots stories — each set in a different faith tradition, each focused on a different environmental challenge — present people who have been motivated by faith to take action to build a more environmentally-just future, a more sustainable world.

  • Original Release Date (Year): 2008
  • Used by people who call the work: Cosmic Evolution, Other (The Story of America's Religious-Environmental Movement)
  • Applies a deep time evolutionary perspective to: Agriculture, Ecology/Sustainability, Education, Other (Religions entering their ecological phase), Religion/Spirituality, Social Justice
  • Learning Stages: Adult Education, Higher Education, Lifelong, Secondary 9 - 12
  • Type: Video
  • Keywords: Religion, ecology, faith, environment, interfaith, grassroots, community, diversity, global warming, climate change, agriculture, water, childhood environmental education, multi-religious understanding, eco-justice, environmental justice.
  • Why I love this Resource: The film encourages multi-religious understanding as it examines the most daunting ecological challenges of our time. In real and personal terms it encapsulates the experience of emergent consciousness.
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  • Posted By: Marty Ostrow
  • Date Added: July 10, 2014