Suggested Practices and Examples for Implementation:

• Attend trainings and facilitate conversations on racial and economic justice issues. Listen for how these issues are intertwined with broader creation care issues and the call to love one another. Consider your role in moving your community toward greater justice and compassion.
• Seek out training on multifaith competency. Attend worship services of a different faith tradition, and strive to support faith leaders of other traditions in your community by getting to know them and working in partnership on relevant community events.  
• Participate in events hosted/led by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color) organizations. Listen for follow-up opportunities and ways to continue to support these organizations and the people leading them. 
• When picking your next creation care text for a study or conversation within your congregation, choose one that includes teachings from multiple faith traditions or a faith tradition other than your own. You can also consider a text focusing on the connection between ecological degradation, race, class, and/or poverty.
  • Some examples include GreenFaith: Mobilizing God’s People to Save the Earth by Rev. Fletcher Harper, Our Only Hope: A Climate Appeal to the World by His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Franz Alt, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer, A Terrible Thing to Waste: Environmental Racism and Its Assault on the American Mind by Harriett A. Washington.
• Learn where the food pantries are in your community and about efforts to increase accessibility to locally grown and organic foods. 

General Information Related to this Strategy: 

• Center for Interfaith Cooperation
• Native Land App
• Repairers of the Breach
• Poor People’s Campaign
• NAACP
• One Home, One Future

Available Resources in Western North Carolina:

• Hood Huggers (Asheville)
• Just Economics WNC
• CoThinkk
• Cooperative WNC
• Carolina Jews for Justice
• MANNA Food Bank (Asheville) 
• Museum of the Cherokee Indian
• Cherokee One Feather
• The Urban News
• Descubre Asheville
• YWCA Racial Justice Workshops
• Bountiful Cities Project (Asheville) 
• Bounty & Soul (Black Mountain)
• Double Up Food Bucks (High Country) 
• High Country Food Hub (High Country)
• Christian’s for a United Community (Asheville)
• One Dozen Who Care (Far Western NC)
• Neighbors for More Neighbors WNC