Buddhists in the San Francisco Bay area are working to save trees by encouraging greater use of recycled paper, especially by major magazine publishers. Their organization, Green Sangha, combines meditation and environmental education to promote non-confrontational forms of action emphasizing the interconnectedness of everyone and everything on the planet.
Active Voice, a pioneer in the sophisticated use of documentaries as community organizing tools, has worked with the producers of RENEWAL to design an innovative engagement campaign to increase the impact of the documentary in American communities, houses of worship, business, civil society and governmental settings.
The Center for Independent Documentary is the fiscal sponsor of the RENEWAL Project.
The Forum on Religion and Ecology is an international, multi-religious project exploring religious worldviews, texts, and ethics in order to broaden understanding of human-Earth relations. Through its scholarship, conferences, publications and outreach, the Forum has been an inspiration to the RENEWAL Project.