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Reduce indoor water use
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Use rain barrels
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Meatless Days
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Sustainable Landscapes
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Carpool to work and church
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Vacation carbon footprint
Drive fuel-efficient car
Remember Simple Things
Water Conservation
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Remember the basics
Upgrade your plumbing
Your Landscaping
Evaluate your water profile
Energy Conservation
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Do the basic stuff
Impress your neighbors
Look to the future
Buying and Sharing Food
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Buy locally grown food
Organic grown food
Use cloth shopping bags
Eat lower on the food chain
PLEASE, don’t waste food
Compost food scraps
Avoid drinking bottled water
Grow food in your yard
Give thanks
Purchasing and Recycling
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Reduce, Reuse and Recycle
Embrace simple living
Sustainable Landscapes
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Plant native plants
Prepare the soil well and compost
Become a Massachusetts Master Gardener
Become a citizen scientist
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Minimize chemical use
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Home
Getting started
Parish and School
Family and Personal
Laudato Si for Young People
Action Overview
Programs and Education
Transportation
Water Conservation
Energy Conservation
Buying and Sharing Food
Purchasing and Recycling
Sustainable Landscapes
Political Action
Parish and School
Programs and Education
Summary
Form a Team
Bring in expert speakers
Speak from the pulpit
Broaden school curricula
Create your library
Transportation
Summary
Encourage carpooling
Parking for hybrid cars
EV car charging stations
Water Conservation
Summary
Reduce indoor water use
Water-wise landscaping
Use rain barrels
Energy Conservation
Summary
Make the commitment
Set a goal
Create Energy Action Plan
Implement Action Plan
Buying and Sharing Food
Summary
Meatless Days
Fast during Lent
Local food movement
Local food pantry
Purchasing and Recycling
Summary
Reduce, Re-use, Recycle
Reuse/compost dinnerware
Purchase recycled materials
Parish recycling program
Sustainable Landscapes
Summary
Connect with urban forests
Plant trees
Tree Seedling Instructions
Create a wildlife habitat
Plant for pollinators
Community garden
Political Action
Summary
Talk to representatives
Sustainable businesses
Family and Personal
Programs and Education
Summary
Find opportunities to learn
Participate in Programs
Transportation
Summary
Carpool to work and church
Alternatives to Driving
Vacation carbon footprint
Drive fuel-efficient car
Remember Simple Things
Water Conservation
Summary
Remember the basics
Upgrade your plumbing
Your Landscaping
Evaluate your water profile
Energy Conservation
Summary
Do the basic stuff
Impress your neighbors
Look to the future
Buying and Sharing Food
Summary
Buy locally grown food
Organic grown food
Use cloth shopping bags
Eat lower on the food chain
PLEASE, don’t waste food
Compost food scraps
Avoid drinking bottled water
Grow food in your yard
Give thanks
Purchasing and Recycling
Summary
Reduce, Reuse and Recycle
Embrace simple living
Sustainable Landscapes
Summary
Plant native plants
Prepare the soil well and compost
Become a Massachusetts Master Gardener
Become a citizen scientist
Create a water-wise landscape
Minimize chemical use
Political Action
Summary
Resources
2022 Lenten Care for Creation Calendar
God's Plan(et) Webinar
Prayers and Reflections
Faith Based Organizations
Environmental Justice Organizations
Environmental Advocacy Organizations
Scientific Organizations
Videos, Books and Articles
Legislative Resources
Dr Erin Lothes Webinar
Dr Lorna Gold Webinar
2021 Green Mass for Creation
2021 Lent Calendar
2020 Advent Calendar
2020 Green Mass for Season of Creation
2020 Lent Calendar
About
About Us
Parish Liaison Registration
Contact Us
Newsletter
Videos, Books and Articles
Resources
2022 Lenten Care for Creation Calendar
God's Plan(et) Webinar
Prayers and Reflections
Faith Based Organizations
Environmental Justice Organizations
Environmental Advocacy Organizations
Scientific Organizations
Videos, Books and Articles
Legislative Resources
Dr Erin Lothes Webinar
Dr Lorna Gold Webinar
2021 Green Mass for Creation
2021 Lent Calendar
2020 Advent Calendar
2020 Green Mass for Season of Creation
2020 Lent Calendar
Videos
Top 10 Things You Need to Know about Pope Francis' Laudato Si' - Fr. James Martin, S.J. -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_lqFTYLc_4
Environmental Racism -
https://catholicclimatecovenant.org/resource/video-environmental-justice
Native Americans in Oklahoma -
Casey Camp-Horinek, Kay County, OK
(Ponca) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzpuFhXZu3w
7 minute video for primary and middle school kids entitled: I’m only a kid I can’t do anything about climate change…right? -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PslL9WC-2cQ&ab_channel=GlobalWeirdingwithKatharineHayhoe
4 minute video on Laudato Si for Primary school kids -
https://cafod.org.uk/Education/Primary-teaching-resources/Laudato-Si-animation
5 minute Carmelite NGO presents a curriculum which teaches high school students the wisdom of Pope Francis’ earth-care Encyclical for grades 9-12.
https://catholicclimatecovenant.org/resource/laudato-si-interdisciplinary-secondary-school-curriculum
Full Length Movie -
Before the Flood
(Leonardo DiCaprio narrates an overview of climate change domino effect - 2016) -
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/oct/20/before-the-flood-review-leonardo-dicaprio-climate-change-documentary
Full Length Movie -
Blue Gold
(the fight to stop the corporate theft of water – free on YouTube - 2008)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFO7FBxlKsw
Full Length Movie -
Bottled Life: Nestle’s Business with water
(free on Amazon Prime) -
https://www.amazon.com/Bottled-Life-Nestles-Business-Switzerland/dp/B00AX0M7Y4
A Plastic Ocean (
Plastic pollution and consequences of our disposable lifestyle.
) -
https://itunes.apple.com/us/movie/a-plastic-ocean/id1184318095
Books
Free audiobook of Laudato Si:
http://villagedoings.com/wp-cafe/?page_id=505
Study Guide: National Catholic Reporter:
A readers’ guide to LAUDATO SI’
by Jesuit Fr. Thomas Reese
https://www.ncronline.org/blogs/faith-and-justice/readers-guide-laudato-si
Study Guide:
On Care for our common home: A dialogue guide for Laudato Si’
by Janet Somerville and William Fr. Ryan, SJ, Jesuit Forum. Ottowa: Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops.
https://jesuitforum.ca/dialogue_guides/on-care-for-our-common-home/
On Care for our Common Home Laudato Si: The Encyclical of Pope Francis on the Environment.
Sean McDonagh. NY: Orbis, 2016.
https://www.amazon.com/Care-Our-Common-Home-Laudato/dp/1626981736
Care for Creation:
A Franciscan Spirituality of the Earth
. Ilia Delio, O.S.F., Keith Douglass Warner, O.F.M., Pamela Wood. Cincinnati: Franciscan, 2008.
https://www.amazon.com/Care-Creation-Franciscan-Spirituality-Earth/dp/0867168382
Prayers to an Evolutionary God
. William Cleary. Woodstock, VT: Skylight Paths, 2004
https://www.amazon.com/Prayers-Evolutionary-God-William-Cleary/dp/1594730067
Stewardship of the Earth
. Stephen J. Binz. New London, CT: Twenty Third Publications, 2015.
https://www.amazon.com/Stewardship-Earth-Threshold-Bible-Study/dp/1585953733
USCCB Discussion guide:
http://www.usccb.org/issues-and-action/human-life-and-dignity/environment/upload/laudato-si-discussion-guide.pdf
Articles
Bangladesh
http://www.crs.org/rising-waters-rising-concerns-bangladesh
North American Indigenous :
https://www.ncronline.org/blogs/eco-catholic/larger-faith-community-comes-standing-rock-solidarity
Island Nations
http://www.cnn.com/interactive/2015/06/opinions/sutter-two-degrees-marshall-islands/
Impact of Race on whether you live near Pollution:
https://www.thenation.com/article/race-best-predicts-whether-you-live-near-pollution/
National Geographic
“We made it. We depend on it. We’re drowning in it. Plastic.”
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2018/06/plastic-planet-waste-pollution-trash-crisis/
Green Climate Fund:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rev-richard-l-killmer/why-people-of-faith-care-about-the-green-climate-fund_b_8004018.html
Climate Change and Hunger:
https://lcwr.org/sites/default/files/publications/files/RTA1-09.pdf