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Getting Savvy at SASI

Lonnie Ellis, OFS

Overview

Encyclical Work of Catholic Climate Covenant Some Tools Diocesan Skill-Building: • Media Strategy • Community Organizing Principles

Catholic Climate Covenant

• Press events and messaging work • Homily Helps sent to 13,000 parishes • Generated op-eds and LTEs • Snappy videos and social media work • Broad collaboration among faith and

environmental groups

Tools

catholicclimatecovenant.org/act Creation Care Teams • Resources to recruit team members • Tools for education • Hands-on activities • Inspiration and reflection Feast of St. Francis Educational Program • Hands-on activities • Advocacy • Reflection on living our faith

Tools

usccb.org/environment

Under-Utilized Tool: Media Strategy

Des Moines Press Event 552 media hits around the country

A Story Sprinkled with Organizing Principles

A Story Sprinkled with Organizing Principles

1st Principle: The World As It Is vs.

The World As It Should Be

2nd Principle: Always, Always Do Relationship-Mapping

Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.

- St. Francis of Assisi

A Story Sprinkled with Organizing Principles

A Story Sprinkled with Organizing Principles

Now Go Get ‘Em!

Utilize Media Strategy Work With The World As It Is Do Relationship-Mapping and Do What No One Thinks Can Be Done

Catholic Climate Covenant (CCC) is the only U.S. Catholic group devoted solely to climate change. Here are some resources that might help the people and parishes you serve.

• Toolkits and study guides: CCC maintains a comprehensive library of study guides, toolkits, and papal/episcopal documents on ecology.

• Sustainability: CCC’s Creation Care Teams program helps parishes and other communities shrink their carbon footprint, and provides advocacy and reflection from a Catholic perspective. This program is provided free of charge as part of CCC’s service to the Catholic community. It is compatible with other programs, like Interfaith Power and Light’s. The website has further details.

• Email list: CCC delivers email to its list once a week. If you’re interested in staying up-to-date on programs that might appeal to your constituents, please sign up.

Learn more about the Catholic Climate Covenant and take the St. Francis Pledge: www.catholicclimatecovenant.org

Add yours today!

October

• September 24 • October 14

Presenter

Presentation Notes

The Global Catholic Climate Movement is a new international network of laity, religious, clergy, theologians, scientists, and other Catholic individuals and organizations united by our faith and by the moral imperative of responding to and raising awareness about climate change. We aim to raise a strong Catholic voice in the climate change debate. We have two main goals: 1) Run unified global campaigns for climate action 2) Be an online hub for climate resources and action for the Catholic community Lenten Fast for Climate Justice: 2000 people from 55 countries fasting over Lent

● Getting the HTML Code

● Where to embed ● How to embed ● How to introduce ● How to promote

Goal: 1 million signatures to be

delivered at COP21 Climate Summit in Paris

image of Pope, C

● Gather signatures after mass ● Have a mobile volunteer crew collect signatures at large gatherings ● Set up table at a conference

Education catholicclimatecovenant.org/act Creation Care Teams • Resources to recruit team members • Tools for education • Hands-on activities • Inspiration and reflection Feast of St. Francis Educational Program • Hands-on activities • Advocacy • Reflection on living our faith

Advocacy Clean Power Plan

Advocacy Letters to the editor

Discussion in Two Groups 1. Activism • The People’s Pilgrimage • National Day of Action • The Catholic Climate Petition

2. Education • Creation Care Teams • Feast of St. Francis • Education/Advocacy through Letters to the Editor

All-powerful God, you are present in the whole universe and in the smallest of your creatures. You embrace with your tenderness all that exists. Pour out upon us the power of your love, that we may protect life and beauty. Fill us with peace, that we may live as brothers and sisters, harming no one. O God of the poor, help us to rescue the abandoned and forgotten of this

earth, so precious in your eyes. Bring healing to our lives, that we may protect the world and not prey on it, that we may sow beauty, not pollution and destruction.

Touch the hearts of those who look only for gain at the expense of the poor and the earth. Teach us to discover the worth of each thing, to be filled with awe and contemplation, to recognize that we are profoundly united with every creature as we journey towards your infinite light. We thank you for being with us each day. Encourage us, we pray, in our struggle for justice, love and peace. Amen