
Poverty and the Environment
Environmental degradation has a magnified affect on the poor. This informative fact sheet includes statistics, a case study, discussion questions, CST, and a prayer.

Quiz: Global Warning
QuizUse the Global Warning! Quiz to increase awareness about the effects of climate change caused by global warning.

CST and Creation
This summarized excerpt from the book, Catholic Social Teaching: Our Best Kept Secret, can help you to reflect for Earth Day about CST's call to care for creation. The resource is a one-page...

Water: Reaching the Millenium Development Goal?
An important part of any discussion on poverty today must focus on the growing crisis related to the availability of water. This resource includes a quiz, fact sheet and discussion questions.

Reflection on Privileges
Jim McGinnis, of the Institute for Peace and Justice, reflects privileges and consumption.

The Environmental Impact of War
This fact sheet lists the environmental threats and actual damages that have resulted from the war in Iraq. Discussion questions and CST are included.

Respect Creation, Eat Ethically
This resource lists suggestions of how you can better respect creation via decisions in your eating, shopping, and food preparation choices.

Tourism
This resource identifies some of the ways in which mass tourism can negatively impact the lives and lands of indigenous peoples around the world. This vision of tourism is then contrasted with...

CST Conscious Consumer: Chocolate
Lesson PlanThe United States is the world's largest chocolate consumer, and this unit explores the global issues behind our chocolate purchases. Topics covered include child labor, slavery, corporate...

CST Conscious Consumer: Introduction
Lesson PlanThe world is consuming goods and services at an unsustainable pace, with serious consequences for the well-being of people and the planet. There are, however, creative options for meeting people's...

Prayer Service: Water for All the People of the Earth
This three-page resource is a prayer service looking at the ways water is essential for all of life. This prayer service uses a variety of symbols. These symbols are used to show how we are...

International Day for Preventing the Exploitation of the Environment in War and Armed Conflicts
This resource features facts and reflections on the degradation of the environment caused by war and armed conflicts. Two case studies illustrate the environmental devastation caused by conflicts...