Goals for Laudato Si Action Platform

Laudato Si’ GoalsLike the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals, the Laudato Si’ Goals are at once a vision and plan. They name the major challenges of our times and point to an integrated program of action to respond at all levels.
The Laudato Si’ Goals are:
  1. Response to the Cry of the Earth (greater use of clean renewable energy and reducing fossil fuels in order to achieve carbon neutrality, efforts to protect and promote biodiversity, guaranteeing access to clean water for all).
  2. Response to the Cry of the Poor (defense of human life from conception to death and all forms of life on Earth, with special attention to vulnerable groups such as indigenous communities, migrants, children at risk through slavery).
  3. Ecological Economics (sustainable production, Fair-trade, ethical consumption, ethical investments, divestment from fossil fuels and any economic activity harmful to the planet and the people, investment in renewable energy).
  4. Adoption of Simple Lifestyles (sobriety in the use of resources and energy, avoid single-use plastic, adopt a more plant-based diet and reduce meat consumption, greater use of public transport and avoid polluting modes of transportation).
  5. Ecological Education (re-think and re-design educational curricula and educational institution reform in the spirit of integral ecology to create ecological awareness and action, promoting the ecological vocation of young people, teachers and leaders of education).
  6. Ecological Spirituality (recover a religious vision of God’s creation, encourage greater contact with the natural world in a spirit of wonder, praise, joy and gratitude, promote creation-centered liturgical celebrations, develop ecological catechesis, prayer, retreats, formation).
  7. Emphasis on Community Involvement and Participatory Action to care for creation at the local, regional, national and international levels (promote advocacy and people’s campaigns, encourage rootedness in local territory and neighborhood ecosystems).

Websites

Earth Beat: Stories of Climate Crisis, Faith and Action
​Laudato Si Movement

Study

Understanding Laudato Si

Catholic Social Teaching and Care of Creation
The full seven part series on Catholic Social Teaching can be found on our STUDY! page - click here

Articles on the New Cosmology

Cosmology for a Beginner by Global Sisters Report
Integral ecology: everything is connected by Thomas Reese

Books

​Thomas Berry
Dream of the Earth. San Francisco: Sierra
Evening Thoughts: Reflecting on Earth as Sacred Community
The Great Work: Our Way into the Future

David Christopher
The Holy Universe: A New Story of Creation for the Heart, Soul and Spirit

James Conlon
Geo-Justice: A Preferential Option for the Earth
Earth Story, Sacred Story
The Sacred Impulse, A Planetary Spirituality of Heart and Fire

Elia Delio
Care for Creation, A Franciscan Spirituality of the Earth
Christ in Evolution
The Unbearable Wholeness of Being, God, Evolution, and the Power of Love
From Teilhard to Omega, Co-Creating and Unfinished Universe

Denis Edwards
Ecology at the Heart of Faith

Ivone Gebara 
Longing for Running Water: Ecofeminism and Liberation

Barbara Holmes
Race and the Cosmos

Elizabeth Johnson
Women, Earth, and the Creative Spirit

Sallie McFague
The Body of God: An Ecological Theology

Jennifer Morgan
Born with a Bang: The Universe Tells Our Cosmic Story
From Lava to Life: The Universe Tells Our Earth Story
Mammals Who Morph: The Universe Tells Our Evolution Story