Bring the Hudson River to Your Spiritual Community!

Over the last twelve months, Riverkeeper has been active in the Hudson River Project spearheaded by the Garrison Institute. The project is a place- based initiative that focuses on the sacredness of the Hudson River estuary system with the goal of bringing together diverse religious and environmental leaders with their communities in a unified coalition to work on behalf of the River.

The first year of the project was to get the Hudson Valley talking about issues important to restore and preserve the Hudson River Valley. It was a great success – with thousands of religious and environmental communities attending twelve conversations based on the Department of Environmental Conservation’s Hudson River Estuary Program’s Action Agenda.

Out of these conversations a Statement of Shared Values and Committed Actions (located on the right side of this webpage) was developed – a living document that is being distributed to religious and environmental communities throughout the Hudson Valley for sign-on. Also to the right is a Hudson River Action Plan to be shared with your religious community.

Throughout the year, citizens working toward the preservation and protection of the Hudson River will be bringing this Statement to their center of worship, working to get their synagogue, congregation, mosque, or temple to sign onto the Statement and to commit to taking action to repair, restore, and protect our environment.

Riverkeeper is calling on all our members to bring this Statement to their respective place of worship to help create an even stronger, broader community that will be charged to protect our Hudson River and its watershed for decades to come.