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10 Ways Your Parish Can Make a Difference, by the Catholic Climate Covenant is a comprehensive guide to a greener faith community, outlining simple steps your parish can take to help halt climate change.

Salt + Light Media produced a free, six-part television series called Creation. Containing personal stories, clerical teachings, and Biblical truths, Creation helps to answer the fundamental question, why do we as Catholics need to care about the environment? It can be viewed here.

Table Grace in a World Struggling with Climate Change is a prayer of thanksgiving offered up from World Vision, urging Christians to look away from our selfish lifestyles and acknowledge the bounty that God has given us. It can be viewed here.

Intercessions on the Care of Creation, by the Sisters of Mercy is a bi-lingual prayer adapted from Pope Francis's encyclical, Laudato Si'.

Transition to Renewable Energy Sources, by Joan Brown and the Leadership Conference of Women Religious highlights the critical role that alternative, clean energy plays in the battle to stop climate change. In addition to the author's personal experiences with renewable energy, this guide contains key action steps for all. It can be viewed here.

Reduce Your Carbon Footprint © (used with permission) from the Catholic Health Association is an A to Z guide, containing everything you need to know about reducing your organization's carbon footprint. It can be viewed here.

April 22, 2016 marks the 46th anniversary of Earth Day, a secular celebration that many faith communities have incorporated into their annual calendars. This year, we join with the Earth Day Network to celebrate “Trees for the Earth.”

Catholic Climate Covenant’s 2015 Feast of St. Francis program, “Caring for Our Common Home,” explores how to
understand and apply Pope Francis’s encyclical on ecology and climate change. The encyclical is titled Laudato Si’, or, in English, Praised Be: On The Care of Our Common Home.

This program guide contains everything you need to host an event. This guide refers to a parish, but can be equallywell used by a youth group, university, religious community, or any group that is interested in exploring Laudato Si’.

This program is designed around the 2014 Feast of St. Francis (October 4) and highlights St. Francis’ s concern for Creation and the poor because: