In Person - Molly Burhans: Mapping the Catholic Church to Fight Climate Change

Join us Sunday, July 16, 3-4:30 pm, at St. Mary Student Parish, 331 Thompson Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48104, to hear Molly Burhans talk about her efforts to move the Catholic Church toward managing its vast landholdings sustainably.

Molly Burhans is a visionary young woman with a big idea: that the Roman Catholic Church, the world's largest non-governmental landowner, should use its properties sustainably and lead the world towards sustainability.

Molly Burhans is an award-winning Catholic environmentalist, cartographer, and social entrepreneur. She is the founder of GoodLands, an organization whose mission is to mobilize the Catholic Church to use its land holdings for environmental and humanitarian good. Burhans was the chief cartographer for the first unified global map of the Church, which premièred at the Vatican in 2016. She is one of Encyclopedia Britannica's 2022 “20 Under 40,” a winner of the Sierra Club’s EarthCare Award, a U.N. Young Champion of the Earth, a National Geographic Emerging Explorer, and an Ashoka Fellow. Molly is a visiting professor at Canisius College and adjunct professor of Urban Design at Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation.

The event is free, all are welcome.

To join the event on-line, please see
https://www.meetup.com/sierra-club-huron-valley/events/294160167/

Co-sponsored by: Sierra Club Huron Valley Group, St. Mary Student Parish, the Lutheran (ELCA) congregations of Washtenaw County, St. Francis Catholic Church, Temple Beth Emeth, and Ignatian Spirituality & Yoga

[Photo: St. Peter's Basilica viewed over the Tiber. Credit: John Metzler]