Community Involvement Articles
#6.Civilian Climate Corps
“Do you know that as part of the Biden-Harris Administration’s historic climate agenda, the American Civilian Climate Corps (CCC) was established on September 20, 2023, where more than 20,000 Americans will conserve and restore our land, air and water, and make our communities more climate resilient? It is a workforce to help young people gain access to training necessary for good-paying careers in clean energy and in the climate field. It’s mission is to engage young people and veterans in activities to help and make better the health, diversity, and productivity of our public lands.
#5.New Year Resolution: Register in Laudato Si’ Action Platform, a Global Community
Did you know that you can register in the Laudato Si’ Action Platform (LSAP) and announce your proposed action(s) to help our planet earth? This is a pro-active, and very much needed response that follows the seven goals of Pope Francis for his assigned seven commitment groups
#4.Biodiversity
Biodiversity includes richness or the number of species, including the identity, dominance, and rarity of these species. Did you know the main driver in the loss of biodiversity remains in humans’ use of land primarily for food production with humans altering over 70% of all ice-free land? When land is converted for agriculture or development, animals and plants lose their habitat. We, as stewards and ambassadors of planet Earth, need to avoid destroying natural habitats.
#3.Two-year anniversary of Our Mother Earth columns in The Message
With much gratitude to Bishop Joseph M. Siegel, publisher of The Message, and Tim Lilley, editor, we celebrate two years of writing Our Mother Earth monthly. Every column is available by visiting https://evdiomessage.org/our-mother-earth/. Titles and dates for each are shown below.
#2.Seventh anniversary of ‘Laudato Si’’
Why should we care about this anniversary? Maybe because anniversaries become useful when we use them to ask questions like, “Have we listened to Pope Francis, and is the temperature of the Earth really increasing?” Compared with a decade ago, more Americans say protecting the environment and dealing with global climate change should be top priorities (PEW Research Center, Funk and Kennedy, How Americans see climate change and the environment in seven charts, 4/21/20).
#1.Good News About Pope Francis’ ‘Laudato Si’’
“On Sept. 5, 2021, more than 200 medical journals released an unprecedented joint editorial that urged world leaders to act. The science is unequivocal, they write. A global increase of 1.5⁰ C above the pre-industrial average and the continued loss of biodiversity risk catastrophic harm to health” (Amy McKeever, National Geographic, 9/9/21).