The National Religious Partnership for the Environment (NRPE) was founded in 1993, by four major religious communities, across a broad spectrum of faith groups which together serve over 100 million Americans. These are:

•·The U.S. Catholic Conference (USCC), the policy agencies for all bishops, clergy, and parishes of the Catholic Church.
• The National Council of Churches of Christ (NCCC), a federation of 34 Protestant, Eastern Orthodox, and African-American denominations.
• The Coalition on Environment and Jewish Life (COEJL), an alliance of agencies and organizations across all four Jewish movements.
• The Evangelical Environmental Network (EEN), a coalition of 23 evangelical Christian programs and educational institutions.

The NRPE seeks to weave care for God's creation throughout religious life in such a way as to provide inspiration, moral vision, and commitment to social justice for all efforts to protect the natural world and human well-being within it. It calls upon multiple resources to enact a comprehensive vision:

•Religious teachings and traditions from scripture, theology, worship, social ethics, and education.
• Diverse constituency to encourage efforts across racial, ethnic, economic, political, and cultural boundaries.
• Social teachings to offer religious as well as scientific and economic perspectives to environmental thought.
• Tens of thousands of congregations through which to undertake community-based initiatives. Public policy agencies and networks to educate citizens about legislative and executive initiatives. Public policy agencies and networks to educate citizens about legislative action.
• Public policy agencies and networks to educate citizens about legislative and executive action. Communications outlets to present messages in the language of faith and values.
• Educational institutions to instruct the young and adults and to train future leaders.
• Capacity to convene diverse sectors of society in cooperation for the common good.
• Historic ability to awaken and sustain dedicated citizen action.
• Potential to offer a comprehensive vision of human place and purpose equal to the deepest causes of the environmental challenge.


The national climate and energy campaign has been honored in numerous and diverse local, regional and national publications. Most recently, the Ecological Society of America’s periodical celebrated its achievements (see quote above). Press coverage of the Wisconsin campaign has been equally favorable, appearing in newspapers throughout the state.