Earth Day is April 22. What can I do to get involved?

April 21Catholics and Climate Change

We’ve compiled a list of news and other resources to help you get involved with Earth Day, 2021.

Earth Day Videos and Webinars

Earth Day 2021: Restore Our Common Home

From the Catholic Climate Covenant

This is a recording of the 2021 Earth Day program, “Restore Our Common Home”. We invite program facilitators, and/or anyone who wishes to process the program in a group setting, to watch and accompany the Covenant staff as they process the program.

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Earth Day Live

From Earthday.org

From April 20-22, join the world’s leaders for Earth Day 2021. Together, we can prevent the coming disasters of climate change and environmental destruction. Together, we can Restore Our Earth™.

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Spirituality in the 21st Century

From Prariewoods

Prairiewoods celebrates our 25th jubilee year with a truly special Spirituality in the 21st Century event, offered entirely online via Zoom. This event promises to be one of profound story, an opportunity for healing and refreshment, a wakeful enlightenment for our imagination with music as balm for the soul, and a gentle invitation for immersion into the wider “We” we have been longing for with all our hearts. From Prairiewoods’ founding until 2021, our mission has been framed with the Universe Story, a 13.7-billion-year journey that celebrates the wild fecundity of life from the Great Flaring Forth forward.

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  • Friday, April 30, 7-9 p.m. CST
  • Saturday, May 1, 9 a.m. – 3 p.m. CST
  • Registration required, register here

American Climate Leadership Summit

From ecoAmerica

The American Climate Leadership Summit 2021 is right around the corner. Join climate leaders including Gina McCarthy, White House National Climate Advisor, Hon. Sheldon Whitehouse, US Senator (D-RI), Michael Regan, 16th Administrator of the US EPA, and many others on April 27-29, 2021 as we call for and catalyze immediate climate action for our families, communities, and nation. See you there!

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  • Tuesday, April 27 – Thursday, April 29, 2021
  • Attendance fees:
    • $75 – All Access Summit Pass
    • $50 – Main +1 Forum Pass
    • $25 – Single Forum Pass
  • Registration required, register here

On Environmental Racism, Climate Change, and Pathways to Justice

From CIIS Public Programs

Racism permeates every aspect of society. The way environmental racism and climate change impact marginalized populations can be seen and heard in the broader media landscape, but the full extent of their effects on Black, Brown, and Indigenous communities are often not fully seen or addressed.

Environmental racism is a form of systemic racism in which people of color are disproportionately burdened with health hazards through policies and practices that force them to live in proximity to sources of toxic waste such as sewage works, mines, landfills, power stations, major roads, and emitters of airborne particulate matter. As a result, these communities suffer greater rates of health problems caused by hazardous pollutants.

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  • Wednesday, April 28, 9:00 p.m. – 10:30 p.m. CDT
  • Attendance fees:
    • Free, suggested donation of $10
  • Registration required, register here

 

Get Involved with Earth Day

21-Day Catholic Environmental Justice Challenge

From the Ignatian Solidarity Network

In his encyclical Laudato Si’, Pope Francis invites all people to act on behalf of creation. This call to action is grounded in the principle of integral ecology—the idea that environmental, social, political, and economic systems are interwoven—and sustained by a sense of wonder before the interconnected nature of all life. The environmental justice movement similarly asks us to view the world as interconnected and prophetically calls us to change the systems that create the unjust distribution of environmental hazards.

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Faith Climate Action Week

Faith Climate Action Week is ten days in April during Earth Month when IPL congregations focus on how we can all take action to protect our climate. The 2021 theme is – Sacred Ground: Cultivating Connections Between our Faith, our Food, and the Climate.

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Learn More about Earth Day

Earth Day 2021 From Earth Reminder – History, highlights, and events around the globe

Earth Day Activities to Celebrate Earth Day from Home – 10 easy ways to celebrate the 51st anniversary of Earth Day

Earth Day Quotes and Save Earth Slogan – A fun collection of Earth Day slogans, quotes, and mantras

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