CARE FOR CREATION
ADVOCACY AND RESOURCES
JUSTICE, PEACE, AND INTEGRITY OF CREATION (JPIC)
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Listed below are select Justice, Peace, and Integrity of Creation (JPIC) Care for Creation Advocacy and Resources. Additional opportunities can be found on our other JPIC webpages, including our Care for Creation ministry main web page, Ecological Education and Formation Opportunities, Community Garden and Assisi Preserve, Community Supported Agriculture (CSA), Earth Day Fair, Greener Lent, and The Season of Creation and St. Francis Week.
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If you have any questions, please contact: Ken Chiha, Director of Justice, Peace, and Integrity of Creation (JPIC) |
FOSSIL FUEL NON-PROLIFERATION TREATY
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Our Justice, Peace, and Integrity of Creation (JPIC) Care for Creation Ministry highlights numerous important advocacy initiatives, but we have particularly emphasized the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty during our Earth Day Fair, the Season of Creation, and our celebration of Saint Francis Week. We would like to invite you to learn about the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty by watching this one-minute video.
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Please consider adding your personal endorsement of this campaign by clicking on the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty image link.
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PREVIOUS CARE FOR CREATION ADVOCACY
DURHAM CREEK WEEK
March 16-23, 2024
HELP PROTECT OUR WATERSHEDS AND DRINKING WATER. Creek Week is one of Durham’s largest litter cleanup initiatives of the year. Celebrated annually during the third week of March, it is a week-long time to discover and clean up our local waterways, including Durham’s creeks, streams, rivers, and lakes. Since 2009, we have collected an estimated total of 210,989 pounds of litter with 4,808 volunteers during Durham Creek Week!
Durham Creek Week 2024 will be March 16-23. We have a Creek Week educational guide with lesson plan ideas and books for all ages to enjoy! Want to organize a cleanup for Creek Week? Register here! We can help you choose a location if you do not have one in mind yet. If you would like to join a cleanup or view our educational and recreational events page, please click here.
Durham Creek Week 2024 will be March 16-23. We have a Creek Week educational guide with lesson plan ideas and books for all ages to enjoy! Want to organize a cleanup for Creek Week? Register here! We can help you choose a location if you do not have one in mind yet. If you would like to join a cleanup or view our educational and recreational events page, please click here.
CLIMATE SOLUTIONS
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Urge your Senators to Pass Ambitious Climate Solutions. Please join Catholics across the country who are urging their senators to support $555 billion in climate solutions that lower national greenhouse gas emissions and help communities build resilience against the impacts of climate change.
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CONTACT YOUR SENATORS
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THE EARTH BILL
FRANCISCAN ACTION NETWORK (FAN)
The urgent need to protect and care for God's creation has never been more evident than in recent years, as we have witnessed the devastating consequences of neglect and abuse. We must take immediate action to change our ways and recognize the inherent value of God's planet and people.
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The Earth Act to Stop Climate Pollution By 2030, also referred to as The Earth Bill, is slated to be introduced in this Congress. The bill aims to get us on track to mitigate the impacts of climate change by focusing on three main areas of importance: Electricity, Zero-Emission Vehicles, and Regenerative Agriculture Production. Click here and ask your representative to cosponsor this bill.
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ASK EPA TO SET STRONG SOOT POLLUTION STANDARDS
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently announced it will update soot pollution standards. This is a critical step to protect our health and our climate from deadly air pollution, but the planned update fails to set the strong science-based soot pollution standards that would protect communities.
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Soot is a dangerous and deadly pollutant that is produced by power plants, tailpipes on cars and trucks, and other industrial sources. An updated standard for soot pollution could save thousands of lives. According to the American Lung Association, 63 million Americans experience unhealthy spikes in daily soot, or particle pollution, and more than 20 million Americans experience dangerous levels of soot pollution on a year-round basis. Soot pollution disproportionately affects low-wealth communities and communities of color.
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As people of faith and conscience, our values call us to love our neighbors and to be good stewards of our Sacred Earth. The EPA has a moral opportunity right now to advance environmental justice, ensure that our neighbors have clean air to breathe and to protect those most vulnerable such as children, seniors, and people with chronic illnesses.
Submit a comment to the EPA urging a strong, science-based soot pollution standard that protects health and advances environmental justice.
Submit a comment to the EPA urging a strong, science-based soot pollution standard that protects health and advances environmental justice.
DON’T WASTE DURHAM
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Don't Waste Durham has been working to enable the first Durham school to switch from disposable to reusable serveware in their lunchroom. They have been using an employee’s vehicle daily to transport hundreds of stainless-steel lunch trays and sporks to and from their wash facility. However, they will need a much larger vehicle to add 11 more schools in 2023! To volunteer in their efforts, help support them in purchasing a “biodiesel truck” and learn more about all the environmental benefits of this program, please click on the logo.
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DONT WASTE DURHAM PROGRAMS/DONATE
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DURHAM WALKS FOR OUR PLANET
JOIN OUR FRIARS' CALL FOR ACTION
As the world’s leaders meet at the COP26 Climate Summit in Glasgow, Scotland, here in Durham, we are bringing people together to express local support for decisive and urgent action on climate issues.
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The event is scheduled for Thursday, November 4, from 4-5 pm. It will begin at Immaculate Conception Church, 810 W. Chapel Hill St. in Durham (on the lawn next to the statue of Mary, facing Chapel Hill Street). It will conclude at St. Joseph Episcopal Church, 1902 W. Main St. Durham NC, 27705 (behind Whole Foods).
At 4 pm, we will show a short, live-video message from Glasgow from Br. Angelito Cortez, OFM. Originally from the Philippines, he now serves as a co-director of the Franciscan JPIC Office in Rome. Franciscan International has an NGO status at the UN, and Br. Cortez will be in Scotland as an advocate for the poor, marginalized and the earth. We will also hear a short message from Brian Murray, Interim Director at the Nicholas Institute & Duke University Energy Initiative. |
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Before starting the walk toward Duke’s East campus, we will hear from a few children and youth speaking about why they participate in the Durham Walks for our Planet. Please bring posters, banners, and/or small, self-made wind turbines. We are making a special effort to reach out to families with children, and to the youth, inviting them to join us.
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We will be sending a press release and so anticipate having a robust presence of the local press. It’s a great opportunity to lift up the moral and ethical call for climate justice.
Since we are still dealing with the pandemic, as we march, we are asking people to keep a safe-distance and wear facemasks. We will conclude in prayer at the side of St. Joseph Episcopal Church, located at 1902 W. Main St. Durham (right behind the Whole Foods). |
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A few links on the topic of climate justice:
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If you have questions regarding our various JPIC ministries, please contact me:
Kennith M. Chiha, Director of Justice, Peace, and Integrity of Creation (JPIC)
Immaculate Conception Catholic Church - 901-A West Chapel Hill Street, Durham, NC 27701
(919) 682-3449 Ext. 293 - [email protected]
If you have questions regarding our various JPIC ministries, please contact me:
Kennith M. Chiha, Director of Justice, Peace, and Integrity of Creation (JPIC)
Immaculate Conception Catholic Church - 901-A West Chapel Hill Street, Durham, NC 27701
(919) 682-3449 Ext. 293 - [email protected]