Creation Tithing, a Primer

by Anne Ipsen, Ken Kroes

Creation Tithing is a program for houses of worship and their members to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 10% each year through a dedicated focus on reducing the worst consumer-generated emitters: electricity, gas, heating oil, water, and automobile fuel. It is designed to be a community effort that involves the house of worship, its clergy, and members of the congregation.

The Primer is a workbook of resources for Creation Tithing that generates ideas through worship, discussion, and community-building. It can be used by workshop leaders to develop materials and slides, and as a workbook for individual participants.

46 pages, Paperback

Published October 1, 2018

About the author

Anne Ipsen is a writer, speaker, and environmentalist. Her latest book, co-authored with Ken Kroes, is a guide to houses of worship and their congregations for how to cut their carbon footprints called "Creation Tithing, a Primer." Her most recent novel is "Green Valley," is about New England resilience under the challenge of climate change, starting in 2022. New England. An excerpt was published in 2018 in "Anthology House." "Green Valley" follows the descendants of characters introduced In her historical novel sequence "At the Concord of the Rivers," (2011) and "Abigail's Legacy" (2014), in which Anne explores her interest in history and love of the special town of Concord by spinning a tale of the accidental time-traveler Abigail’s sojourn with the Puritans in 1692 and the consequences for her and her new friends.
An earlier historical novel sequence follows the lives of Karen and Peter in the period 1875-1890. They were born in Denmark, sailed around the world and eventually settled on the Minnesota prairie. Anne's first books were two memoirs about her childhood in Denmark and teenage years in Boston, where she grew up and went to school.
Before leaving academia in order to write full-time, Anne was a Professor of Public Health at the University of Minnesota. She and her husband now live in Newton, Massachusetts. They have three grown children and five grandchildren.