Read our Newsletter!

Our Summer Newsletter is our quarterly newsletter, designed to keep you in the know. Read our latest issue for upcoming events and the Latest Earth News.
Click here to download

Season of Creation 2021

The Season of Creation begins on September 1 to October 4, the Feast of St Francis of Assisi. Pope Francis encourages us to participate in the worldwide celebration of prayer and action to protect our common home.

Voices that Challenge

Liz Chicaje Churay

A Leader Among the Bora
Liz Chicaje Churay, 38, is a leader of the Indigenous Bora community of Loreto, Peru, president of an agricultural cooperative, and former president of the Federation of Indigenous Communities of the Ampiyacu River. She first became an activist in her community at the age of 16, when she started to attend meetings about defending ancestral Bora territory from illegal logging and other incursions. That same year, she became a mother for the first time. During the campaign to protect the Yaguas, she often carried her young daughter with her, while spending long periods apart from the rest of her family as she traveled throughout the region.   

In January of 2018, as a result of the efforts of Liz Chicaje Churay and her partners, the Peruvian government created Yaguas National Park. Comparable in size to Yellowstone National Park, the new park protects more than two million acres of Amazon rainforest in the northeastern region of Loreto. Its creation is a key step in conserving the country’s biodiversity—safeguarding thousands of rare and unique wildlife species and conserving carbon-rich peatlands—and protecting Indigenous peoples.

Source: https://www.goldmanprize.org/prize-recipients/current-recipients/

 

0 All Booked All Booked All Booked 17724 Living Laudato Si https://www.scearthconnection.org/event/living-laudato-si/?event_date=2021-12-16&reg=1 https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr 2021-12-16
Next coming event
Days
Hours
Minutes
Seconds

Living Laudato Si

On December 16, 2021 at 1:00 pm at
Register

Join Us!

  • 0 All Booked All Booked All Booked 17724 Living Laudato Si https://www.scearthconnection.org/event/living-laudato-si/?event_date=2021-12-16&reg=1 https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr 2021-12-16
    16 Dec, 2021

    Living Laudato Si

    Thursday, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm Upcoming
    Register
  • 0 All Booked All Booked All Booked 17725 Evening – Living Laudato Si https://www.scearthconnection.org/event/evening-living-laudato-si/?event_date=2021-12-16&reg=1 https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr 2021-12-16
    16 Dec, 2021

    Evening – Living Laudato Si

    Thursday, 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm Upcoming
    Register

From our Blog

Very Latest

COP 26

by Cj Willie on November 2, 2021 in Featured

At an international conference in Madrid in December 2019, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said, “The point of no return is no longer over the horizon. It is in sight and hurtling toward us.” Events in every part of the world are testifying to that fact with droughts, floods, wildfires, and

Continue reading

  • Climate Change Widespread, Rapid, and Intensifying
    by Cj Willie on August 18, 2021 in EarthConnection

    It is impossible to turn on the news or read a newspaper these days without being confronted with catastrophic natural disasters (wildfires, droughts, floods, etc.) throughout the world. The world’s top scientists are telling us that climate change is not something that will happen in the future. It is here

    Continue reading
  • Care for Our Common Home
    by Admin on May 19, 2021 in EarthConnection

    May 19, 2021 In February I wrote a blog about the book co-authored by the World Parliament of Religions and the United Nations Environment Programme entitled Faith for Earth: A Call for Action. The authors intent for the book was to raise an awareness of the importance of a moral

    Continue reading

Caps to Benches Project

"Every cap or lid that goes into a bench does not go into the landfill. A win-win for us all!”

EarthConnection now has two lovely benches made of recycled plastic caps and lids at the building’s front entrance as well as a large picnic table. Caps continue to arrive daily from across the country. S. Winnie Brubach and service-learning students from Mount St. Joseph University (MSJU) sorted, cleaned, weighed, and prepared the caps for transport. S. Winnie and Administrative Assistant Sue DiTullio drove to Evansville, Indiana to pick up the new bench (185 pounds) and table (550 pounds).