Resources

Earth Care

  • Spend time with Earth

    Be present with, savor, and appreciate Earth’s plants, animals and minerals.

  • Show gratitude to Earth

    Act with the understanding that Earth provides your only home and sustenance.

  • Show kindness to Earth

    Support sustainable practices, beautify and improve, minimize waste, recycle.

  • Celebrate Earth

    Celebrate Earth Harness creativity to express your love for Earth.

  • Pray or meditate on Earth's Healing

    Direct your energy towards your greatest hopes for Earth’s healing.

  • Show kindness to Earth

    Support sustainable practices, beautify and improve, minimize waste, recycle.

  • Involve Others

    Bring your loved ones along to make the experience even more memorable.

Brown Thumbs Turn Green

Follow Dr. Susanna Calvert and Dr. Kimberly Andrews, two brown thumb “gardeners,” on their journey to feed themselves in partnership with Earth.

Learn more about how you can use home gardening to strengthen your relationship with Earth and feed the Earth as you feed yourself.

Eco-Grief and Healing: A Conversation with Gaia

Experience our Earth Day 2021 event, a virtual discussion featuring a diverse panel of experts exploring Earth topics.

This discussion includes quantum physics and Gaia consciousness, climate change and the collective unconscious, spiritual and psychological grief, healing in partnership with Earth, and more.

Earth's Eden

Join us as we explore a native plant and butterfly paradise created by Karl Green and Chris Burnside in Richmond VA.

Digging Deeper

Join along as we visit with experts to learn more about Earth-healthy topics and delve further into our healing relationship with Earth.

In this series, we invite you to discover how you can feed yourself using gardening methods that are sustainable and replenishing for our planet.

Richmond Earth Series

Please join us for the Richmond Earth and Healing Series, where we host zoom sessions featuring speakers and videos on topics related to environmental justice, conservation, Earth, and healing practices.

The series is a partnership between the First Unitarian Universalist Church of Richmond Earth Ministry and the Foundation for Family and Community Healing. 

Meditations

Join us for a guided meditation to remember and re-establish the ancient bond that exists between Earth and human.

Our Body, Our Earth

In this video series, Dr. Susanna Calvert explores the parallels between the human body and its physiology, and that of Earth’s.

Sunday Worship Service

Experience an online worship service in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic offered by First Unitarian Universalist Church of Richmond, VA, with our own Susanna Calvert.

  • Biophilic Cities

    Biophilic Cities promotes the integration of nature with cities, and to conserve nature as a way of life

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  • Huffpost

    Article and video; "The Earth is a Gift to Mankind."

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  • Drawdown by Paul Hanken

    Drawdown proposes 100 of the most substantive climate change and with it,the history and possible implementation of each.

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  • The Center for Integrative Conservation

    The Center for Integrative Conservation Research at the University of Georgia engages in research.

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  • Kiss The Ground

    Videos, infographics, photos, book stories, and blogs on healing the Earth through a process called Regenerative Agriculture.

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  • The Carbon Footprint Game

    The Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Fairfax VA, All Souls Unitarian DC, Cedar Lane.

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  • Plastic Bag Recycling

    A resource for community groups developed by Faith for Climate to encourage others to recycle plastic bags

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  • Foundation for Intentional Healing

    Learn about Intentional Communities, which seek to serve the needs of people and planet, and discover communities near you.

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  • Reiki.org

    An example of a Whole Earth Healing reiki practice.

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  • Williams City Farms

    Williams City Farm’s goal is to not only to grow delicious fruits and vegetables but to show / education the local community

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  • Green Global Travel

    Learn more about Ecotourism practices and destinations.

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  • Happy Planet Index

    The Happy Planet Index Rates countries on how well they create sustainable and happy lives.

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  • Interfaith Power & Light

    Interfaith Power & Light seeks to bring people of all faiths to be faithful stewards of Creation.

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  • Mothers Out Front

    The Mothers Out Front RVA team serves the Richmond, VA area including the surrounding suburbs.

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  • Nature & Forest Therapy

    Learn about forest healing and rejuvenation practices, and find a Forest Bathing guide near you

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  • One Earth Conservation

    A not-for-profit organization that seeks to heal human systems that diminish individual worth and separates humans artificially from the rest.

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  • Protect Us

    An organization born out of the spirit of Standing Rock and countless other social movements

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