Rev. Dr. Clare Butterfield, the Executive Director of Faith in Place, will provide training in basic approaches to organizing your religious community to be more sustainable in its own practices and to promote sustainability in the homes of members and in the public square.The webinar will offer basic tips for how to begin a greening program with your religious community, and how to advance one if you’ve already started, based on the experience of Faith in Place with over 700 religious and spiritual communities throughout Illinois. Specific topics will include energy conservation, organizing a green team, incorporating a sense of place into worship and practice, supporting local and sustainable farming through the religious community, learning about water, and more.Rev. Dr. Clare Butterfield is the Director of Faith in Place, an interfaith environmental ministry in Chicago that gives religious people tools to become better stewards of Creation. Faith in Place congregations and groups work together to support renewable energy, conserve energy, build markets for local sustainable agriculture and fair trade products, and train the next generation of stewards of the earth through urban agriculture with youth. Rev. Dr. Butterfield is an ordained Unitarian Universalist community minister.  She has a D.Min. from Chicago Theological Seminary (2008) with a focus on faith and the environment. an M.Div. from Meadville Lombard Theological School (2000), a J.D. (University of Illinois College of Law, 1983) a B.A. in History (University of Illinois 1980).