From Resilience to Restoration
Like the Wise Coach Says: You Can't Win If You Only Play a Defensive Game.
Our Restoration Framework
From Resilience to Restoration is PJCs frontward facing platform to amplify the voices of impacted communities across the states we serve including Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas and Virginia. Environmental injustices are concentrated in these states and the overall southern region of the U.S. PJC believes these voices have been systemically left out of critical conversations of which the out comes of those conversations directly affect residents in these places and ultimately the rest of the country.
Ecological Restoration
Economic Restoration
Ecumentical Restoration
Ecological restoration is necessary so that nature may continue to provide vital and free ecosystem services such as clean air and water, storm buffering, healthy food, and the resources that are the basis for all human economies. Ecological restoration acts to repair the damage that humans have dealt to Earth's natural areas and diversity of life.
Economic restoration, from the perspective of frontline communities, is a bit misleading, for we are seeking to elevate underserved populations to a level of economic health and prosperity they likely never had before. One example of this is via the formation of local, worker-owned cooperatives. Economic restoration places People and Planet in proper relationship over Profit.
Ecumenical refers to something universal or something that has a wide, general application. Often, it is used to refer to Christian interdenominational activities. We use the term in an even broader, interfaith/all-faith sense: We must combat the toxic theology that has greatly contributed to our current environmental and justice problems. This calls for Restoration Theology.
This webpage was supported by the Gulf Research Program of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine under award number 200013216.