Together with religious communities and movement partners, we create new land transitions rooted in ecological and racial healing.
As religious communities make long-term decisions about the land they have stewarded for generations, the Land Justice Project seeks to expand available options that protect and regenerate land, while also repairing centuries of racial harm. Together, we're exploring new options for property solutions that are more creative, collaborative, and just.
To date, we’ve offered education about land justice options to over 1,000 sisters, associates, staff, and other friends in over 110 religious communities. We also offer technical support, direct accompaniment, and resource development for communities who wish to pursue a land legacy rooted in land justice principles.
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Q. What is land justice?
A.It’s the practice of centering ecological, social, and racial justice in decisions about how land is used, loved, and governed by people.
Land justice has three important components: protecting land from extraction; regenerating its health; and expanding land equity to Black, Indigenous, and other dispossessed communities.
98% of private land in the U.S. is owned by white people, and 1500 acres of land are developed every day. Meanwhile, the climate crisis and our deeply unjust systems of power are directly tied to this disparity of land and wealth, as well as the project of colonialism and capitalism that created them in the first place. Land justice calls us to radically transform these realities — and create something new, together.
When we imagine land justice in our lifetimes, we see religious lands being loved and stewarded into the future by Indigenous land trusts and cultural collectives, Black food sovereignty efforts, regenerative farming cooperatives, habitat restoration, affordable housing solutions, and more. The time is ripe for these possibilities to flourish — and religious communities can be the much-needed catalyst to make them come to life.
Our Focus Communities.
The Focus Community (FC) program is a peer-based cohort of religious communities who are actively exploring a land justice property plan.
Made up of seven diverse communities who are exploring land justice in their own realities, this cohort offers space and support to roll up our sleeves together and take real steps toward land justice.
Our Learning Platform.
We offer two seasons per year of live workshops, trainings and case studies; bringing together powerful speakers and organizers with a growing audience of sisters interested in land justice. All events are free, and all help us deepen our understanding of land justice using real world examples.
Find out what’s coming up, and watch the replays of past events and case studies here: