Celebrate Laudato Si Week on May 17-25

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Laudato Si’ Week 2021, to be held May 16-25, will be the crowning event of the Special Laudato Si’ Anniversary Year, and a celebration of the great progress the whole Church has made on its journey to ecological conversion.

Laudato Si’ Week 2021 will also be a time to reflect on what the COVID-19 pandemic has taught us and prepare for the future with hope.

Official Events

May 17

Laudato Si Dialogue: Critical Opportunities in 2021 to create change: call for an integral path.

This webinar will highlight key political opportunities in 2021 to create change, with a focus on the UN climate conference (COP 26) and the UN biodiversity conference (COP 15) and the need for an integral approach. We will hear from the Vatican Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development, and from indigenous and youth leaders on the key role these conferences must play in building back better after the COVID 19 pandemic, achieving global goals, restoring harmony between humanity and nature, and building a culture of care and justice. Attend This Event

Other Events (Click here for details on each of the events listed below)

18 May – Laudato Si Dialogue on Education
19 May – Laudato Si Dialogue on Energy and Fossil Fuels
20 May – Sowing Hope for the Planet / Creation Care Prayer Network
21 May – Global Action Day for Our Common Home
22 May – Laudato Si Festival “Songs for Creation”
23 May – (Pentecost) Praying Gathering
24 May – Roundtable about WASH
25 May – Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development

Taos Organization Offers Two Opportunities for Transformation

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Looking for some good news these days?  Want to be part of local Spirit-led social change right here along the Rio Grande? Look no further!  Here are two offerings to launch you into Spring and sustain you all summer!

Brought to you by TiLT [Taos Initiative for Life Together]

OFFERING ONE

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This two-part experience is designed to be “information leading to transformation,” meaning response and action will be expected. Facilitators will provide rich resources so that participants can dive deeper and be ready to respond the next week to the question: How might this information inspire me to make changes in my life and community?

SESSION ONE, 5-7pm Thursday May 6 on Zoom: Todd Wynward and Daniel ‘Ryno’ Herrera of TiLT will offer a multi-media presentation full of inspirational ideas for innovative action.

Learn from their experience how a deep commitment to spirit-led place-based living can give us a place to stand, transform our tastebuds, launch creative community economics, build trust across divisions, teach us to treat our region as rabbi, and give us spiritual and social tools to weather tough times.

SESSION TWO, 5-7pm Thursday May 13 on Zoom: is for Participant Response. Selected practitioners will speak in the first half, respond to last week’s content and share inspiring ways that they already live as people of place. Then in the second half, other participants will share their responses to the material, offer possible actions, and identify next steps.

OFFERING TWO

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Five original podcasts. Five Live Zoom Forums.

A TEN WEEK SUMMER SERIES:

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THE PATH TO RESTORATION

A formative journey together toward a new normal

Practical ways to restore right relationships with Spirit, ourselves, others, and the Earth

Join us for a ten-week journey

Mondays, May 31 – August 2

On The Path to Restoration podcast, long-distance trail runner Zach Martinez interviews Todd Wynward and Daniel “Ryno” Herrera about five ways we all can live into a new normal:

Podcast 1: Walk the Watershed Way

Podcast 2: Grow a Robust Local Food Web

Podcast 3: Hyperadobe Home Building: Make Housing Great Again

Podcast 4: Repurposing Plastic: Turn Waste Into Walls

Podcast 5: After Devastation, Regeneration

Every other Monday evening, the trio will host a live Zoom Forum, encouraging responses by participants to the themes introduced the previous week’s podcast.

When we’re done…only the Spirit knows where our journey will go from there!

A Monthly Resource Encouraging Stewardship of Rio Grande Watershed

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A group of residents of the mid Rio Grande River launched  an interactive magazine called the mid Rio Grande Times to encourage folks to become better stewards of our land, water, plants and wildlife. “Eight years ago our group formed as the result of a community-wide conference on the importance of knowing and being a part of one’s watershed,” said the group which calls itself the Watershed Way.

The group has continued as part of the Albuquerque Mennonite Church’s social action program. “As we explore our current reality, we say to ourselves, It’s time to live more sustainably. Time to participate in earth justice. Time to confront harmful environmental policies.

To receive a Free Subscription, click on the home page and scroll to the bottom. Check out new postings of relevant information, announcements of upcoming community actions, and updates on local food sources. The Index is filled with more articles relevant to life in the mid Rio Grande watershed.