Ecology and Sustainability Resources

• English Translation: Laudato Si': On Care for Our Common Home 

The Vatican announced a Special Laudato Si’ Anniversary Year (May 24^th, 2020 – May  24^th, 2021) with the hope that the year and the ensuing decade will “be a time of grace, a true Kairos experience and ‘Jubilee’ time for the Earth, and for humanity, and for all God’s creatures."

• Laudato si’ & Covid-19: Can praises still be sung in a strange land? 2020
• Pope backs integrated ecological protection June 11, 2019
• Pope to young economists: 'together for global change' May 11, 2019
• Laudoto Si' inspires solutions to environmental problems December 12, 2017
• Pope, Patriarch: Care for creation includes respect for people September 1, 2017
• The Renewed Importance of Pope Francis's Encyclical on Climate Change June 2, 2017
•  September 20, 2015
• and applied ethics August 15, 2015
• Ten realizations arising from Laudato Si' July 31, 2015
• International Statement endorsed by AJCU, "In Response to Laudato Si': On Care for Our Common Home: A Statement of Leaders in Catholic Higher Education Globally" June 21, 2015
• A summary of Laudato Si' in two to ten minutes June 18, 2015
• Ten key excerpts from Pope Francis's encyclical on the Environment June 18, 2015
• High Level Launch for Pope's Encyclical June 10, 2015
•  June 1, 2015
•  May 13, 2015
• Read St. Francis of Assisi's Canticle of Creatures (Prayer of Praise)

• Towards Muslim Engagement with Pope Francis' Encyclical Laudato Si' June 21, 2015
• Multi-faith Reflections on Climate Change: Bahai, Christian, Jewish, Sikh January 2010

• Climate Change: Morphing into an Existential Threat Video of Pope Francis's Climate Scientist V. Ramanathan, Ph.D. of Scripps Institution of Oceanography
• The Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education
• Jesuit Education: Forming Human Beings in Harmony with their Fellows, with Creation and with God. by Superior General Fr. Arturo Sosa SJ, October 20, 2017.

• The fragile world’:  Catholic church teaching on ecology before and by Pope Francis
• The Place of Sustainability and the Environment within Roman Catholic Thought: Remarks by Michael J. Graham, S.J.,
• Sustainability and Catholic Higher Education: A Toolkit for Mission Integration which is published by eight national Catholic organizations, including the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities, 2011
• Catholic Social Teaching and Ecology Fact Sheet, J. McCarthy SJ, 2006

• Ignatian Pedagogy for Sustainability: An Overview J Leighter & K Smythe, 2019
• Sustainability and the Jesuit Mission by Kathleen R. Smythe, Ph.D., 2012
• Jesuit Response to Environmental and Ecological Challenges - a history by EcoJesuits.com through 2011
• Healing a Broken World - Jesuit  Task Force on Ecology, 2011
• Healing a Broken World - Jesuit Task Force on Ecology, 2010
• Note from Superior General Adolfo Nicolas, SJ to the Society regarding the commitment to nature and the environment, 2011
• General Congregation 35, Decree 3, IV Reconciliation with Creation, 2008
• General Congregation 36 Decree 1 (Reconciliation and Justice)
  Superior General Fr. Arturo Sosa SJ, 2016

• "The Ecological Examen" by Joseph P. Carver, S.J.
• Ignatian Spirituality & Sustainability by Annette Marksberry, 2011.
• A Daily Examen for Ecology by Joan L. Roccasalvo, C.S.J.

• Sustainability Initiatives at Jesuit colleges and universities
• Multi-faith Reflections on Climate Change: Bahai, Christian, Jewish, Sikh

• Earth Day, the Environment and Sustainability
• Grandeur of God

• A Prayer for Our Earth (from Laudato Si') Prayer Card
• A Prayer for Our Earth (from Laudato Si') Prayer Poster
• A Christian Prayer in Union with Creation (from Laudato Si') Prayer Card
• A Christian Prayer in Union with Creation (from Laudato Si') Prayer Poster
• St. Francis of Assisi's Canticle of the Creatures Prayer Card
• St. Francis of Assisi's Canticle of the Creatures Prayer Poster 1
• St. Francis of Assisi's Canticle of the Creatures Prayer Poster 2
• St. Francis of Assisi's Canticle of Creatures (text)
• Prayers for Sustainability
• A Daily Examen of Consciousness of Ecology

• Climate Change: Morphing into an Existential Threat 
  Video of Pope Francis's Climate Scientist V. Ramanathan, Ph.D. of Scripps Institution of Oceanography
• Addressing Climate Change    2008
  See and hear Archbishop Celestino Migliore, former Permanent Observer of the Holy See to the United Nations, addressing climate change.
• Responding to Climate Change   2008
  See and hear Dr. Jame Schaefer responding to Archbishop Celestino Migliore's address.

•  Sustainability and the Mission
  The Center for Mission and Identity and the Office of Sustainability hosted a 3-part program on sustainability (food, consumption, energy) in January 2013 facilitated by XU Sustainability Coordinator - Ann Dougherty P.E.

• Green Analytical Chemistry: Teaching Towards Sustainable and Responsible Choices
  Supaporn Kradtap Hartwell, Ph.D.

• The Healing Earth Textbook
  Nancy C. Tuchman, Co-Director, International Jesuit Ecology Project, Loyola University Chicago  
  Michael J. Schuck, Co-Director, International Jesuit Ecology Project, Loyola University Chicago

• Click here for the video introduction to the Healing Earth textbook

• Click here for more information about Teaching to the Mission

• A Sustainable History
• The Green Office Guide
• Xavier University Community Gardens