From Plastic Pollution to Environmental Justice

PEC presents a webinar related to the PEC-supported overture (OVT-014) on “Becoming Free from Plastic Pollution.” Presenter Avery Davis Lamb, Co-Executive Director of Creation Justice Ministries, will expand on CJM’s Earth Day resource: “Plastic Jesus: Real Faith in a Synthetic World.” According to CJM, “Everywhere we look in our culture, you will find plastic. One place where you will not find plastic, however, is in the Bible.”

This webinar will help individuals and congregations think more deeply about the ways that plastics impact our lives and God’s creation. This PEC webinar intends to equip people of faith to take actions to address the plastic pollution epidemic in faithful and practical ways.

Avery Davis Lamb is a Co-Executive Director of Creation Justice Ministries. Avery has a background in both ecological research and faith-based environmental organizing, studying ecology in various ecosystems and organizing faith communities across the country in support of action on environmental justice. Previously he has worked for Sojourners and Interfaith Power & Light. He serves on the board for The Center for Spirituality in Nature and is a Fellow with the Re:Generate Program at Wake Forest Divinity School and the Foundations of Christian Leadership Program at Duke Divinity School.  Avery received the Emerging Earth Care Leader Award for 2021 from Presbyterians for Earth Care.

Avery has a Bachelor of Arts in Biology and Sustainability from Pepperdine University, Master of Environmental Management in Ecosystem Science & Conservation with a certificate in Community-Based Environmental Management from the Nicholas School of the Environment at Duke University, and a Master of Theological Studies, with a certificate in Faith, Food & Environmental Justice from Duke Divinity School. His research focuses on the role of religious communities in building climate resilience and adaptation, with emphasis on the virtue of  “climate hospitality.”