Greening Spaces for Worship and Ministry
Congregations, Their Buildings, and Creation Care
By (author) Mark A. Torgerson
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Publication date:
04 May 2012Length of book:
244 pagesPublisher
Rowman & Littlefield PublishersISBN-13: 9781566995399
Greening Spaces for Worship and Ministry is a comprehensive guide. The book provides a rationale, strategies, and resources for fulfilling environmental stewardship through the land and buildings of Christian and Jewish congregations. New construction, renovation, and historic preservation projects are addressed. Site development, material choices, energy generation and consumption, water use, interior air quality, green cleaning programs, and beauty are discussed. Ten congregations from across the United States and Canada are featured as examples of excellence in creation care in and through their built environments.
Greening Spaces for Worship and Ministry provides a wonderfully thoughtful and practical guide to the work of greening our congregations and religious facilities filled with inspiring real-world examples. I hope and pray this book becomes a well-worn manual for the growing movement of religious communities caring for the whole of God's creation.