Catholic Climate Covenant

As we celebrate Women’s History Month, it is important to reflect on the significant contributions that women, particularly sisters, nuns, and all women religious, have made to caring for our common home. In the U.S., these women have long been at the forefront of environmental advocacy, embodying Catholic calls to justice and care for God's creation. Read all about their prophetic work in our new blog post! https://lnkd.in/gU6BTZDJ #EcoCatholic #WomensHistoryMonth

The wait is over! Our highly awaited 2025 Earth Day Program is available and ready for download! This year's program focuses on mobilizing and organizing the U.S. Catholic community to build a just future and commit to renewable energy - it complements the secular Earth Day theme of "Our Power, Our Planet." Download the FREE, one-hour program today so your Catholic community can bring (renewable) light to our world! Learn more here: https://lnkd.in/gCdeTeKJ #EcoCatholic #EarthDay

We were happy to accompany Wisconsin Catholic high school students as they met with their elected officials to advocate on climate and for the immigrant community. Make no mistake, young people are raising their voices for issues they care about! #EcoCatholic #YouthClimateAction

A new course at The Catholic University of America, in partnership with Creighton University and Catholic Climate Covenant, combines energy ethics and technical skills to teach students about energy use and reducing emissions. Through this class, students are advising the Archdiocese of Newark on energy improvements! Read more by Brian Roewe in National Catholic Reporter: https://lnkd.in/gsqyqAqf

Students at The Catholic University of America advise Archdiocese of Newark on energy improvements ???????? A new architecture course at CUA (in partnership with Creighton University and Catholic Climate Covenant) combines energy ethics and technical skills for hands-on sustainability projects that can aid U.S. dioceses in improving energy use and reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Brian Roewe reports for National Catholic Reporter

Tune into The Catholic Health Association of the United States's #EarthDay webinar! Hear from Dr. Philip Landrigan, Director of the Program for Global Public Health and the Common Good and professor at Boston College, who will examine the impacts of the recent, rapid increases in plastic production and use through the lens of human health, ethics and social justice. Learn more and register here: https://lnkd.in/g9tAi7bx #EcoCatholic #CatholicHealthCare

Tune in TONIGHT at 5:30 ET to the third virtual event in the “Envisioning a Livable Future” series by John Carroll University and The Hank Center at Loyola University Chicago, marking the tenth anniversary of Pope Francis’s encyclical Laudato Si’. Tonight you'll hear about the political economy of climate change from a lively panel of experts, including Felipe Witchger of Catholic Impact Investing Collaborative / Francesco Collaborative, Brian Boland and Katie Boland of Delta Fund, Adrienne Buller, and Nathan Schneider, Assistant Professor of Media Studies at University of Colorado Boulder. Learn more and register here: https://lnkd.in/g6HrydCw #EcoCatholic

There’s enough bad news in the world, so help us spread good news instead! Help us recognize Catholics in your community who embrace caring for creation and protecting our common home. Change-makers may be featured in a blog post on Catholic Climate Covenant’s website! Nominate someone you know here: bit.ly/BlogNominate #EcoCatholic #GoodNews

If American Catholics returned to meatless Fridays outside of Lent, what would be the resulting climate impact? This ancient tradition could be a key climate action for U.S. Catholics, reported Kimberley Heatherington for National Catholic Reporter last year. Becky Ramsing and her research colleague Brent Kim estimate the potential environmental impact of the U.S.'s 73.5 million Catholics abstaining from meat on Fridays throughout the year is sizable. If all U.S. Catholics stopped eating meat on all Fridays of the year, it would save more than 32 billion kilograms of carbon dioxide, the equivalent of annual CO2 emissions from more than 3.6 million gallons of gasoline consumed, or the equivalent of greenhouse gas emissions from more than 7 million gasoline-powered passenger vehicles driven for one year. It would also save more than 20.5 trillion liters of water annually, the equivalent of more than 8 million Olympic swimming pools.

Kayla Jacobs, our Youth Mobilization Program Manager, reflects on the hope and inspiration of our recent (and still ongoing!) Catholic Youth Climate Summits. These summits bring together Catholic high schoolers to pray, learn, and act together. But she knows that the program wouldn't be such a success without an intergenerational approach. Just as Joel 2:16 calls on the Church to include everyone, we are grateful to support an intergenerational community at Catholic Climate Covenant. Learn more and receive your monthly dose of creation care news in our March Newsletter! https://lnkd.in/gZR3Tpfz #EcoCatholic