Pope Francis’ Journey calls us to rethink and reform our university’s pedagogical structures and processes from the perspective of an integral ecology. How can we better raise ecological awareness, stimulate greater commitment to care for creation, and train for global environmental citizenship?

Providing foundational environmental knowledge is a basic necessity. How do we work toward ensuring that our university communities gain basic literacy in the environmental challenges of biodiversity loss, natural resource exhaustion, fossil fuel extraction, water shortage, food scarcity, and global climate change?

Techniques that integrate environmental knowledge across every discipline touch the very heart of Laudato Sí. How can we bring the concept of integral ecology into all aspects of our university education, reinforcing the connection between environmental and social justice?

Environmental ethics and spirituality should be touchstones of our ecological education.  How do we immerse our community into an environmental ethic that goes beyond identifying problems to constructing solutions? In what ways can we finally end our professorial tentativeness about spirituality and bring this essential dimension of human life into teaching across the disciplines?

We educate the whole person for service to the common good. How do we build interdisciplinary and hands-on instructional modules that draw on the realities facing our local communities? How do we foster within our administration, faculty, students, and staff a sense of belonging to a community that is both ready to receive and ready to offer an ecological education?

These LSG 5 outcomes and actions examples are ideas to trigger the imagination and incubate possibilities for your university’s own Laudato Si Action Plan.