What does Laudato Si’ look like when we see it on a map?
The tool will continue to develop as the Platform learns from participants, improves its data and explores new ways to connect the Laudato Si’ journey with the realities of particular places.
Over the past five years, thousands of individuals, families, institutions and communities have joined the Laudato Si’ Action Platform from places around the world. Soon, a new tool will offer another way to explore that growing community — not only by asking where participants are, but by looking more closely at the places they call home.
The Atlas of Laudato Si’ brings together publicly shared Platform participation with geographic and environmental information, creating a new way to explore the connections between people, place and care for our common home.
From a global view, users will be able to move into particular countries and regions, explore participating communities, and discover different dimensions of their ecological context — from biodiversity and water to landscapes and other environmental realities.
The goal is not to provide a single answer about any place. Instead, the Atlas is designed to help us notice patterns, ask better questions and bring geographic context into the way we think about integral ecology.
What surrounds our communities?
What changes when we look at the same ecological reality somewhere else?
What might a map help us notice that a spreadsheet cannot?
And what still needs to be understood through local knowledge, conversation and discernment?
This first version of the Atlas is only a beginning. The tool will continue to develop as the Platform learns from participants, improves its data and explores new ways to connect the Laudato Si’ journey with the realities of particular places.
Tune in to our fifth anniversary press conference on November 4 (12:00 pm CET) for its launch and a first look at what the Atlas can reveal.