CRETF will join partners at the Social Justice Ministry of the Parish of St. Charles Borromeo in Harlem for their 4th annual Earth Day celebration. This year’s theme is “Our Power, Our Planet.”

Pastor Father William Klaver will open the event with a prayer in honor of the 10th anniversary of Laudato Si’, the second encyclical of Pope Francis, subtitled "on care for our common home". In it, the Pope criticizes consumerism and irresponsible economic development, laments environmental degradation and global warming, and calls all people of the world to take "swift and unified global action.”

The agenda includes speakers from

The New York Coalition of One Hundred Black Women

Columbia University Climate School, The Earth Institute

Metro NY Catholic Climate Movement and Laudato Si

The Earth Bill Network

A Representative from the Office of Congressman Adriano Espaillat

CRETF

WE ACT for Environmental Justice

and more