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The Loretto Community (historically known as the Sisters of Loretto) is an organization of both traditionally vowed Catholic Sisters and also co-members, who are women and men who share values with these Sisters. Some of the co-members of the Loretto Community (LC) take values-based vows as well, committing themselves to simple living, non-violence, solidarity, and/or ecological sanity as an alternative to the traditional vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience. Together, these women and men live out a common mission to “work for justice and act for peace because the Gospel urges us.” They are located primarily in the United States, with several Sisters in Pakistan, Sister communities in both Ghana and Guatemala, and connections all around the world. The LC has always been forward-thinking, has sponsored a Loretto Earth Network (LEN) for over 25 years, and has been responding to the climate crisis in several creative and important ways. Examples of these responses include divesting from fossil fuels, activism in several campaigns against fracking, and educating the entire community about how to move towards carbon neutrality in daily life. The LC provides one important example of how a faith-based organization (FBO) can effectively advocate for Earth justice and contribute to solving the climate crisis.

Leaders of a vast majority of the world’s nations hope to achieve three extraordinary accomplishments between now and 2030: end extreme poverty, fight inequality and injustice, and solve the challenge of climate change. The way these leaders will achieve these accomplishments will be through a set of 17 goals, called the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which were adopted at the United Nations (UN) in September 2015. The SDGs outline a pathway to a more just, more resilient and more livable world. They are important for many reasons, but primarily because they are an opportunity for countries to collaborate across borders to solve the most pressing challenges of our day, like the climate crisis. The success of the SDGs is evaluated annually at a UN-sponsored High Level Political Forum (HLPF) that takes place at UN headquarters in New York City, and once every four years at the UN General Assembly. There is a role for everyone in the achievement of the SDGs, not just government leaders and diplomats, and the most exciting part of the process thus far has been the number of youth involved in learning about, promoting and enacting the SDGs.

republicEn.org is a community of conservatives and libertarians who care deeply about solving the problem of climate change. Our community educates the public about the power of applying conservative and free-market principles to climate-change policy. republicEn is the only grassroots conservative organization in America whose sole purpose is enfranchising conservatives to lead on climate. The mission of republicEn is to educate and amplify the voices of conservatives who care about solving climate change in order to depolarize climate action and embolden lawmakers to lead. Since republicEn opened in 2012 (originally called The Energy and Enterprise Initiative), many allied organizations have sprouted in DC and around the country. We affectionately call this right-of-center coalition the EcoRight.