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We acknowledge the reality of climate change and the urgency of addressing this issue for the sake of the whole Earth community. We join with the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR) in recognizing the intersection of racism and migration with the current climate crisis and we support an integral ecology to address the extinctions, pollution, and global warming that our Earth home is facing. 

Adrian Dominican Sisters Sustainability Enactment of General Chapter 2022

Affirming the urgent need to live in right relationship with Earth community, we commit to address the cry of Earth and the cry of those who are poor by joining the Laudato Si' Action Platform.

• Becoming a Laudato Si' Congregation (PDF)
• Year One Goals (PDF)

Adrian Dominican Sisters Sustainability Enactment of General Chapter 2016

Recognizing the violence against Earth community that places our common home in dire jeopardy and intensifies the suffering of people on the margins, future generations and all creation, we will sacrifice to mitigate significantly our impact on climate change and ecological degradation.

Resources

Horizon 2030: Climate Change (PDF) by Elise Garcia, OP (2017) - A guide to understanding climate change at this crucial time in history, including steps we can take to reduce our carbon footprint.

As religious communities discern the future of the lands they’ve loved for generations, Land Justice Futures support them to incorporate land justice into that process. 

Adrian Dominican Sisters Permaculture site has a webpage and Instagram page

Catholic Climate Covenant envisions a world in which all humanity shares in both the responsibility and joy ofour common home and all creation thrives with wholeness, abundant life, dignity, and justice.

The mission of the Laudato Si' Movement is to inspire and mobilize the Catholic community to care for our common home and achieve climate and ecological justice, in collaboration with all people of good will.

Actions

Join the Laudato Si' Action Platform.

Watch the documentary film The Letter: A Message for Our Earth.

Read key reports on climate impacts and solutions from the United Nations.

Get involved, join a climate advocacy group such as:

• Third Act -  A a community of Americans over sixty determined to change the world for the better.
• Project Drawdown - The world's leading resource for climate solutions.
• 350 - A global movement to stop fossil fuels and build a future powered by the energy of the sun, the wind and the people everywhere.
• EarthDay.org - EarthDay.org’s founders created and organized the very first Earth Day on April 22, 1970. Since then, Earth Day Network also known as EarthDay.org has been mobilizing over 1 billion people annually on Earth Day, and every other day, to protect the planet.

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