Activating Our Faith & Hope

Earth is at a turning point, and water is critically threatened across the globe. We need to turn our faith into action in order to create the future we wish to see. Taking the actions below—whether sending an email, signing a petition, placing a phone call, or showing up in person—are ways of practicing active hope.

Waterspirit’s advocacy campaigns are guided by principles of integral ecology and environmental justice. Learn more about each of our major campaigns by clicking on the section headings below. Return to this page often for updated calls to action. To get trained as a Waterspirit Ambassador to support this advocacy, check out our digital course that may be completed on your own time.

May our collective future be bright!

Join Us in Taking The following Actions

updated 9/8/25

Environmental Justice & Clean Water

• Sign this Petition and Send this letter to urge the prevention of the unnecessary, dangerous NESE Pipeline before September 24, 2025; Join the September 9th Bayshore Rally, September 10th Register for this LONE public hearing; and help us pass more municipal resolutions!

• Sign this letter to urge NJ Governor Murphy to sign a solar permitting reform bill S41001/A5264 into law

• Send this Thank You letter to NJ leaders supporting the NJ Green Amendment SCR43/ACR119

• Send a letter to all NJ Reps urging support for a New Jersey Green Amendment SCR43/ACR119 Feel free share this campaign on social media using this kit.

• PLEASE REGISTER for the next PVSC Board Meeting via zoom at 12PM ET, September 18, 2025. Here’s the 2025 schedule.

• Keep Sending this letter to urge your representatives pass the NJ Climate Superfund Act S3545/A4696

• Please keep sending this letter to urge your representatives to OPPOSE postponing Advanced Clean Truck regulations, S3817 and A4967; read this related Op/Ed explaining more.

Stormwater Management and Green Infrastructure

• Email us to book Waterspirit for a green infrastructure presentation today! We are proud to work with many in this space, namely Rutgers University Cooperative Extension Water Resources Program, to help municipalities prepare MS4 permit requirements. Share this 2022 environmental justice and stormwater management webinar series with your municipality.

Renewable Energy & Climate Crisis

• Send this letter to leaders, Sign This Petition to pass S198, the Fossil Fuel Divestment Act, divest NJ’s state pension from deadly fossil fuel, see our volunteer campaign brief to get involved

• Protect the critically endangered Atlantic Whale by signing this petition by our dear friends at Save Coastal Wildlife.

• Protect horseshoe crabs from abuse by signing this petition.

thank you for taking action

• Thank you to those who attended the August 19th, attend Matawan Public Hearing re: Water sale, and signing this resident led petition. Unfortunately, the sale went through.

• Thank you for Sending this letter to Passaic Valley Sewerage Commission (PVSC) Commissioners, only 2 of which, Commissioner Quintana and Commissioner Crump, voted against the proposal June 12, 2025. Our friends at Ironbound Community Corporation will be taking legal action.

• Thank you for Sending this letter to New Jersey’s Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP), urging them to deny a permit request to store gas and other unknown materials in caverns in and around already overburdened Gibbstown, NJ.

• Thank you to those who attended in Camden NJ to witness the beginning what state officials are calling the “largest statewide PFAS settlement in New Jersey history.”

• Thank you for sending this letter to the US Department of Energy to use its own study to reject LNG (“liquefied natural gas”)

• Thank you for sending this letter to the NJ Department of Environmental Protection Water Bank to urge the most accurate measurements of water affordability criteria

• Thank you for supporting the Extended Producer Responsibility bill S998-which passed out of the Senate Environment & Energy committee, moved through Senate Budget & Appropriations and is onto Assembly Science Innovation and Technology Committee

• Thank you for submitting these comments re: the new Resilient Environment And Landscape (REAL) rule

• Thank you for sending this letter to NJDEP to urge Gov. Murphy and NJDEP Commissioner to deny permit approval for what could be a 4th dirty gas plant in overburdened Newark.

• Thank you for sending a letter to Senator Smith, urging him to strengthen and advance S3195, the “Skip the Stuff” Bill! We will keep you updates on this and other related NJ bills!

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