In October the Pontifical Lateran University in Rome launched a new academic degree program on “Care of our common home and protection of creation.” Pope Francis established this program in cooperation with Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew to promote “ecological conversion” through the integration of natural and social sciences with theology, philosophy, and ethics. The program also includes a UNESCO Chair “On Futures of Education for Sustainability.” Read more about this program in these articles from the Catholic News Agency and EarthBeat.