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  Church Bulletin Insert quotes from Laudato Si' (one year's worth)

  This resource is a Word document containing a year's worth of quotes from Laudato Si' (the Pope's encyclical letter about the environment) for use in a church bulletin. This file was created by the Creation Care Council of Our Lady of Perpetual Help in Grove City, OH, and submitted to their church bulletin editor. The result is that each weekly bulletin for the church services contains a quote related to creation care, which keeps the teaching of Laudato Si' current on a weekly basis. By creating a single file with enough quotes for a year, the CCC provided the bulletin editor with easily accessible material, requiring a minimum of follow-up time and energy.
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  Season of Creation Daily Devotion Calendar

  A daily calendar of actions, reflections, meditations and ideas for creation care during the Season of Creation, which runs from Sept. 1 until Oct. 5. This calendar was created by members of Our Lady of Perpetual Help in Grove City, OH, and can be readily adapted for use by others. The creators suggest editing the activities for Sept. 8 and Oct. 4, which are specific to options in their own community.
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  Religious Affiliation and Environmental Challenges in the 21st Century

  "As the impacts of climatic change increase, the share of the world population with a religious affiliation is expected to rise (from 84% in 2010 to 87% by 2050). Religion is important for climate change relevant behaviours, including fertility choices or whether one sees climatic change as due to human action or related to forces beyond human control. We conduct exploratory and descriptive statistical analyses to better understand the associations among religion, on the one hand, and economic development, greenhouse gas emissions, exposure to environmental stressors, and attitudes, beliefs and environmental performance, on the other. We show that countries with lower shares that are religious tend to have more emissions, to be better prepared for environmental challenges and have low or negative population growth. Countries with a greater proportion of religiously affiliated tend to have higher population growth, face more environmental risks and to be less prepared for those risks. Identifying groups that disproportionally cause or are exposed to environmental risks represents an issue of environmental justice. Understanding the religious composition of the world along with environmental changes can further help identify which environmental policies that could be more effective."
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  IPBES Global Assessment Report Summary on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services for Policymakers

  This report represents a critical assessment, the first in almost 15 years (since the release of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment in 2005) and the first-ever carried out by an
  intergovernmental body, of the status and trends of the natural world, the social implications of these trends, their direct and indirect causes, and, importantly, the actions
  that can still be taken to ensure a better future for all. These complex links have been assessed using a simple, yet very inclusive framework that should resonate with a wide range of
  stakeholders, since it recognizes diverse world views, values, and knowledge systems.
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  Ecological Consciousness in Jainism: Exploring Realities, Constraints, and Traditions

  This paper explores the traditions and philosophies of Jainism and how that influences its connection to the environment. The author explains the Jainism cosmology and the distinction between different senses as they apply to animate and inanimate beings. Jain literature understands human connections to the world with an emphasis on the interconnectedness of life forms. To Jains, environmental concerns cannot be separated from socio-economic concerns.
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  Indigenous environmental justice and sustainability

  Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability
  Volume 43, April 2020, Pages 35-40
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  Faith for Earth: A Call for Action

  This book was first published at the beginning of the twenty-first century. A joint project of the United Nations Environment Programme and the Interfaith Partnership for the Environment, it was titled Earth and Faith: A Book of Reflection for Action. The partners printed tens of thousands of copies and gave them to schools, congregations, and communities throughout the
  world. The book described the growing threats to our planet’s life support systems, the reverence all faiths share for life on Earth, and the responsibility that people have to future generations.