Team (or subcommittee) meetings are small, focused, and held as needed, depending on the coalition’s priorities. Teams are authorized by and report back to the Board and General Assembly.  As we are powered by volunteers, we enthusiastically welcome participation from all coalition members. If you’d like to get involved or form a new team, please get in touch.

Care-for-One-Another Team

Geraldine Watkins, Chair

This team does the following:

  • act to show love, compassion, and appreciation to GNOICC participants during times of need, celebration, or other circumstances.
  • aim to respond to fellow participants via mechanisms such as greeting cards, emails, and phone calls, in ways that build and strengthen our human connections, allowing all of us to effectively serve together in our organization’s mission.

Communication Team

Bart Everson, Chair

Our coalition is built on relationships, and communication is the precious lifeblood that keeps our relationships healthy. The Communications Team aims to facilitate the effective flow of information within our coalition, and to lift up the voices of our participants to the wider world. To this end, we do the following:

  • maintain our email discussion groups and social media presence
  • secure channels of communication for the Board
  • regularly publish our newsletter, The Blazing Green Flame

Deep Green Faith & Practice Team

Robert Desmarais Sullivan, Chair

This team does the following:

  • seek to recall the sacredness of the cosmos and to initiate ways to recall cosmic sacredness to others
  • foster a deeper alignment between our physical actions, which affect the natural world, and our deeply-held values, respecting the sacredness of the world
  • address topics that range from the energy efficiency of our houses of worship to the food that we serve and share their discoveries with GNOICC and the general public through periodic public meetings

Mission & Affiliations Team

Parviz Mojgani, Chair

This team does the following:

  • review the Organization’s mission from time to time
  • establishes organizational goals in line with our mission through an inclusive annual visioning process
  • plan and carry out the annual Visioning Gathering with input and direction from the Board
  • explore potential affiliations, linking with other groups both in concert with our ideals on a similar task or project, including service-learning partnerships with educational institutions

Research, Education, and Policy (REAP) Team

Peter Digre, Chair

The GNOICC Research, Evaluation and Policy Team seeks to advance the teaching of the sacred texts that there is an abundance in creation if creation is properly cared for and the abundance is justly distributed. To fulfill this mission, the REAP Team works in unison with an array of environmental justice (EJ) partners:

  • conduct research to find those policies which lead to the best outcomes of environmental and distributive justice and creation care
  • educate GNOICC and the broader Louisiana community as to those most effective policies
  • advocate for those policies in public forums including those of the City and Parish of New Orleans, the State of Louisiana and the United States