Environment

Tackling energy poverty

August 9, 2022

The Jesuit Centre for Faith and Justice were one of twenty organisations that submitted recommendations for a new Energy Poverty Strategy to the Minister for Environment, Climate and Communications

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Growing in awareness of our common home

May 3, 2022

The worldwide Jesuit leader speaks of the Ignatian commitment to respond to the devastating consequences of carelessness for creation.

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Growing a ‘pocket forest’

February 4, 2022

The  Jesuit ACRE initiative and Newry Felons are planting a new Pocket Forest of 350 trees in a local community.

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Pope Video: An environmentally sustainable lifestyle

September 7, 2021

For September 2021, Pope Francis looks to the example of young people in undertaking projects for environmental and social improvement

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Going green – have your say

February 24, 2021

The Provincial wants Jesuits, friends, volunteers, and colleagues to actively shape a new green, environmental policy plan for the Irish Jesuit Province

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Destroying our ecosystem is sinful

February 2, 2021

Ireland is the worst of 57 countries for its carbon emissions. Dr Kevin Hargaden of the Jesuit Centre for Faith and Justice says this is structural sin

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‘Caring for our common home’ webinar

January 12, 2021

Niall Leahy SJ recently hosted an international meeting on environmental justice and integral ecology with a distinct vision within Irish environmentalism

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Deep ecological conversion needed in these crisis times

November 11, 2020

October's Working Notes sounds the alarm about accelerating ecological breakdown and other threats to healthy human existence brought into focus by the pandemic

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Big thanks for ‘Breathing Together’

October 6, 2020

Xavier Jeyaraj SJ, Secretary for Social Justice and Ecology, publishes a letter of gratitude to those who supported the Global Ignatian Prayer Vigil, attended by over 16,000 people

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Respect for the planet’s resources

September 8, 2020

In the Pope Video for September, Francis calls upon us all to take care of the planet’s resources responsibly, and to share them fairly and respectfully

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