World Environment Day (June 5)
We invite you to make use of the following resources to celebrate World Environment Day!
- Carbon and Coronavirus—learn how the pandemic is affecting global emissions
- Short Video: Coronavirus Has Had A Positive Impact On The Environment, For Now
- Photojournalism: Before-and-after photos show the dramatic effect lockdowns are having on pollution around the world
- Revisit the 2019 Just Act, “Ecological Crisis: The Impact of a Border Wall on Creatures and their Homes,” and make use of our World Environment Day prayer service, by Sister Pat Ferrick, which focuses on the same issue. Though the pandemic has taken up our attention in recent months, construction of the border wall is ongoing.
- Click here to view the webinar recording of Mary Evelyn Tucker on Earth Day and Laudato Si’
Haiti
Please read Haiti Partnership, COVID-19, and Laudato Si’, by Catherine Sarther, SSND, Brian Stevens and Kristi van de Wetering (Beyond Borders Staff). “As we celebrate the fifth anniversary of Laudato Si’ (LS) during the coronavirus pandemic, our partnership with Beyond Borders in Haiti helps us see the relationship between persons who are poor and planet-related concerns (LS 16).”
Multi-faith Ramadan-Shavuot-Pentecost Reflection
This Interfaith Immigration Coalition resource lifts up the common themes of abundance, blessings, and the call to justice and care for the needy evident in each of these three significant Spring Holy Days in the Abrahamic faith traditions. The resource invites you to reflect on each of the Holy Days and then take action to support worker protections for farmworkers and meatpacker who are at such incredible risk especially in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic.
