The ADW has developed its response to Laudato Si’, organizing around the encyclical’s calls for action.

Join the ADW in our responses:

• Response to the Cry of the Earth: asks us for greater use of clean renewable energy and general fossil fuel reduction so we may practice carbon neutrality as part of our efforts to protect and promote biodiversity and guaranteeing access to clean water for all
• Response to the Cry of the Poor: asks that we defend human life from conception to death and also care for all forms of life on Earth, with special attention to vulnerable groups such as indigenous communities, migrant children at risk through slavery, and others.
• Ecological Economics: asks that we use our economic choices to encourage sustainable production, fair trade, ethical consumption, ethical investments, and investment in renewable energy/divestments from fossil fuels as well as to discourage economic activity that is harmful to the planet and the people.
•  Adoption of Simple Lifestyle: calls us to exercise sobriety [intense focus] in the use of resources and energy, avoid single-use plastic, adopt a more plant-based diet and reduce meat consumption, to increase public transport use, and to avoid polluting modes of transportation when possible.
• Ecological Education: challenges us to re-think and re-design educational curricula and to reform educational institutions in the spirit of integral ecology to create ecological awareness and action, as well as promoting the ecological vocation of young people, teachers and leaders of education, and other community leaders
• Ecological Spirituality: encourages us to recover a religious vision of God’s creation, developing greater contact with the natural world in a spirit of wonder, praise, joy, and gratitude, to promote creation- centered liturgical celebrations, and to develop catechesis prayer, retreats, formation, and other practices
• Community Participation: calls us to care for creation at the local, regional, national and international levels by promoting advocacy and people’s campaigns, encouraging actions rooted in local territory and neighborhood ecosystems, and more local work.)

For more details, see the ADW action plan, the Laudato Si action week, or the general ADW resources below.