Mission

The Franciscan Ecology Center is committed to preparing people, especially the next generation of youth and young adults, to assume responsibility for a healthy and sustainable planet. We do this by using existing research and developing new research to educate young people, adults, communities, institutions and policy makers on current environmental sustainability issues, and provide training in democratic participation skills, leadership skills, ethics and spiritual development, and ecosystem conservation and restoration skills. In our efforts, the Franciscan Ecology Center has embraced a two-prong strategy. First, we are concerned with helping faith-based and religious institutions and communities, including the Catholic Church, assume increased responsibilities in engaging in environmental justice and ecological sustainability, and mobilizing their members for participation in Care for Creation initiatives. Second, we are concerned with combining insights from the Franciscan tradition--ecospirituality, ecological theology and ethics, environmental justice and peace, and lifestyle of simplicity--with the contributions of contemporary ecological sciences, social sciences, arts and humanities, and environmental philosophy, and engaging in public dialogue and action to promote local, national and global public policies that result in healthy and sustainable ecosystems, and a more peaceful and equitable social structures. Our motto is "preparing new generations for a 21st Century planet."

 

 

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