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Topics Worth Exploring as We Care for Creation
  1. The role of plastic pollution in the climate, biodiversity, and poverty crisis, and ways to reverse it
  2. The changing global and US outlook for fresh water supplies
  3. The current and potential expectations and impacts of sea level rise locally, in the US and globally 
  4. The benefits, methods and mechanics of composting food and organic wastes
  5. How the Pope’s Seven-Year Laudato Si’ Action Plan is intended to work (and our role in it)
  6. The climate and environmental justice impacts of burning or preserving the Amazon rainforest
  7. The promise and problems of carbon-free nuclear power
  8. The outlook for electric vehicles (and their owners)
  9. Meat – How do we weigh nutrition, climate, and land-use impacts?
  10. The climate challenges and continuing need for natural gas use
  11. Promising new clean-energy technologies and why it’s hard to deploy them
  12. The perplexing economics of addressing climate change
  13. How our electric grid is changing and still needs to
  14. Climate change exacerbates global and local economic and societal inequities: how can we respond? 
  15. Addressing the hardest-to-decarbonize sectors: air travel, heavy industry, cement, ocean shipping, truck transport and agriculture
  16. Local government responses to climate change 
  17. Practical steps toward a zero waste lifestyle and a circular economy
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FAIR Trade Market at St. Luke’s – November 22 & 23, 2025!

St. Luke’s Care for Creation Ministry is excited to announce our third annual Fair Trade Market after Masses November 22 and 23, 2025. We are happy to have Fair Trade Winds operate this event again. Fair Trade Winds is a family business that believes our everyday purchases can have a positive impact. Their core values are rooted in ethical craftmanship, meaningful connections and a passion for quality. You are sure to find treasures among the craft items and food products on display in the hall after Masses.

Supporting Fair Trade can also be a choice in daily life, so let’s remember to keep an eye out for Fair Trade logos as we do our routine shopping at local stores.  And when you find Fair Trade in unexpected places, share the word with others!

“The urgent challenge to protect our com­mon home includes a concern to bring the whole human family together to seek a sustainable and integral development, for we know that things can change.” (LS 13)
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Native Plant Sale after all Sunday Masses on May 31 and June 1, 2025!
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Blooming flowers and growing plants are magnets pulling us outside to the garden. The new growth inspires us to get out there, clear away the dead stems, pull those pesky winter weeds and dig into the fresh spring earth. We are lucky to have a great local resource, Earth Sangha, for advice and information about our Northern Virginia native plants. The local cultivars provide just the right habitat for our pollinators, songbirds and butterflies, and they are well-suited to our environment, needing little added water or fertilization. They are a bit different from the mass-produced offerings found in retail outlets but are more likely to establish themselves and return to beautify our landscapes and nourish our wildlife for years.
Are you ready for Gardening Season?

Join us on Sunday, February 27, 2022 at 4 p.m. in Flaherty Hall

The Care for Creation Committee is pleased to announce a presentation by Master Gardner, Kim Young on Sunday, February 27 at 4:00 p.m. in Flaherty Hall! The session will include tips for successful gardening in Northern Virginia. Bring your questions and get ready for the planting season!
A Presentation on Pollinators

The Care for Creation Committee is pleased to announce a presentation by Lawrence Jones on Pollinators on Thursday, February 3, 2022 at 7:30 p.m. Please contact John Jimison ([email protected]) for an invitation.
A Solar Evening

The Care for Creation Committee presents an information session on Solar Energy on Thursday, January 6, 2022 at 7:30 P.M. via Zoom. Please contact John Jimison ([email protected]) for an invitation.
Opportunity to View Creighton University Conference Series (A Previously Recorded Online Conference Series on Laudato Si')

A Conference Series on our Common Home
(A Previously Recorded Online Laudato Si' Conference from July 13-15, 2021)

Sponsored by Creighton University and Catholic Climate Covenant
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View at www.creighton.edu/catholicclimate/
Opportunity to Compost Your Food Scraps
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If you want to compost but cannot do it at home, a new County composting program may allow you to compost at a local farmers market.

The County's composting pilot program expanded to make the service available at three county-operated farmers' markets and one non-profit market thanks to a partnership between the Department of Public Works and Environmental Services and the Park Authority.
Laudato Si' Week
Laudato Si’ Week 2021, held May 16-25, was a 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.
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