The Dioceses of DioLex, East Tennessee, Southwest Virginia, West Virginia, & Western North Carolina have formed the Appalachain Eco-Region. This Eco-Region is prioritizing preserving and restoring native plant communities, transformative agriculture and food systems, and addressing natural disaster preparedness.
The Rev. Becca Kello, Eco-Region Fellow
The Dioceses of Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, Southeast Virginia, and Washington have formed the Chesapeake Bay Eco-Region. This Eco-Region is seeking to address Care, advocacy, and protection of the beautiful Chesapeake watershed that faces an existential threat due to wastewater and agricultural runoff and climate change, all while raising up and empowering spiritual communities and practices to ground and amplify efforts.
The Rev. Pete Nunnally, Eco-Region Fellow
The Dioceses of Kansas, Nebraska, Montana, South Dakota, North Dakota, Iowa, Northwest Texas, Rio Grande, Colorado, Wyoming, Western Kansas, Idaho, Navajo Land, and Texas have formed the Grasslands Eco-Region. This Eco-Region seeks to address grasslands preservation and restoration, biodiversity, regenerative ranching and farming, and water quality, depletion, and rehydration
The Rev. Maddy Bishop-Knoth and Hampton Randall, Eco-Region Fellows
The Dioceses of Taiwan, San Joaquin, Utah, and Oregon have formed the Clean Air and Water in Province VIII Eco-Region. Despite geographic distance, these dioceses face strikingly similar environmental challenges of air quality, water scarcity, public health, global industrial pressures, and climate patterns, and seek to address these issues facing their dioceses.
The Eco-Region Fellow has yet to be named.
We are excited to welcome our sixth Eco-Region Network, the Pacific Coastal Eco-Region Network! Member dioceses are: The Diocese of El Camino Real, The Diocese of California, and The Diocese of Northern California. The Pacific Coastal Eco-Region is prioritizing climate justice, carbon emission reduction, environmentally friendly
land use, water management, wildfire mitigation, and relationship-based information networks and resiliency hubs.
An Eco-Region Network Fellow has yet to be named.
The Dioceses of South Carolina, North Carolina, Eastern North Carolina, and Georgia have come together to form an Eco-Region. This Eco-Region is prioritizing the waterways and agricultural systems that link these dioceses, with particular focus on the crisis of factory farming and animal suffering in the food industry across the region, and the disproportionate burden that has been placed on poor and marginalized communities.
An Eco-Region Fellow has yet to be named.
Honduras and the DR have come together to form an Eco-Region Network. They are seeking to address carbon neutrality and issues of sustainability.
An Eco-Region Fellow has yet to be named.
The Dioceses of Ecuador Central and Ecuador Litoral have formed an Eco-Region Network. This network seeks to address issues of waste, reforestation, and community involvement in creation care.
An Eco-Region Fellow has yet to be named.
The dioceses of Venezuela and Colombia have come together to form an Eco-Region Network. This network seeks to share best practices in nature restoration and regenerative food production for healing the earth and moving toward carbon neutrality.
An Eco-Region Fellow has yet to be named.
The Dioceses of the Central Gulf Coast, Louisiana, and Mississippi have come together to form the Gulf Coast Watershed Eco-Region. This Eco-Region is prioritizing combatting wetland and biodiversity loss brought about by industrial incursion, sea level rise, warming waters, and pollution of waterways by drawing on much local and historic knowledge & practices, all while seeking to increase spiritual resiliency.
An Eco-Region Fellow has yet to be named.
The Dioceses of Central New York, Rochester, Albany, and Western New York have come together to form the New York and Northern Freshwater Eco-Region! This Eco-Region is prioritizing climate justice, sustainability, and the right use of natural resources, with specific focus on the protection and care of Lake Ontario, the Erie Canal, the Finger Lakes, the Hudson River, Lake George, and the St. Lawrence, which sustain and enrich the lives of the people of this region.
An Eco-Region Fellow has yet to be named.
