This year's theme is "Beat Plastic Pollution", a call to combat one of the great environmental challenges of our time. How can we make changes in our everyday lives to reduce the heavy burden of plastic pollution on our natural places, our wildlife and our own health? The World Environment Day website offers specific ideas of how we can all carry out this theme in many simple ways. Plastic - if you can't reuse it, refuse it. Prayer resource.   

 

 

This is a day to celebrate the life-giving role of oceans and take part in stewardship events and activities in our communities from coast to coast. We are all connected to the oceans no matter where we live, no matter how far from the coast. The focus for 2018 is Preventing Plastic Pollution and Encouraging Solutions for a Healthy Ocean. Will you stop using single use plastic bags, bottles and straws to help our ocean? Learn more, be inspired, take action.  

 

     

We commemorate the third anniversary of Laudato Si' and the reminder that each of us is called to care for our common home. All of humanity must understand that a true ecological approach always becomes a social approach. We must integrate questions of justice in debates on environment so as to hear both the cry of Earth and the cry of the poor. Last year, in celebration of the 2nd anniversary of Laudato Si', the Global Catholic Climate Movement launched the Laudato Si' Pledge campaign to keep the message alive and encourage Catholic action - have you taken the pledge? Resources for living out Laudato Si'.  

 

     

The Poor People's Campaign is a 40-day "fusion" of direct nonviolent action of the poor, clergy and advocates that began on May 14. Campaign organizers point out that 50 years after King's assassination, systemic poverty, systemic racism, ecological devastation, the war economy, and Christian nationalism still persist. The campaign intends to bring these "moral failures" back to the center of public discourse. The theme for week 3 (May 27-June 2) is Militarism and the Proliferation of Gun Violence. The theme for week 4 (June 3-9) is The Right to Health and a Healthy Planet: Ecological Devastation and Health Care. Learn more/get involved.