21-Day Environmental Justice Journey

This Earth Week, Catholic Climate Covenant and the Sisters of Mercy invite you to enter into a 21-day journey along the path of environmental justice, April 23-May 16. Just as Pope Francis grounds his vision of creation care in an understanding of the interconnectedness of all life, the environmental justice movement asks us to view the world as interconnected and prophetically calls us to change the systems that create the unjust distribution of environmental hazards.

In Laudato Si’, Pope Francis called upon all people of goodwill to take courageous action on behalf of creation. In a world of overlapping crises, we are presented day after day with opportunities to step into courage and act in defense of the earth and its most vulnerable inhabitants. There are few better places to turn to for leaders modeling this prophetic action rooted in love than the those in the environmental justice movement.

This 21-day challenge is brought to you by the joint efforts and partnership of Ignatian Solidarity Network, Catholic Climate Covenant, Global Catholic Climate Movement, Jesuit Office of Justice and Ecology, and the Sisters of Mercy.

For 21 days, we challenge you to:

• Enter into the complex work of understanding the connections between environmental injustices that disproportionately impact Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC), as well as low-income communities
• Listen to and learn from the voices of environmental justice leaders from frontline communities
• Better understand the connections between current and historical environmental injustices
• Respond to the call to work toward a lived vision of a world in which all of God’s creation can flourish