ECO-PALMS

Eco-Palms: your role in supporting
social and environmental justice

More than 300 million palm fronds are harvested each year for U.S. consumption alone—most of them for Palm Sunday, but also for floral displays for church-related events. Your parish's commitment to purchase eco-palms plays an important role in protecting forests, local jobs, and sustainable livelihoods in the harvesting communities.

Lutheran World Relief is partnering with the Chamaedorea Palm Certification Project to help build support in the U.S. for eco-palms by introducing Lutheran parishes to this social and environmental justice project. The Palm Certification Project is an effort of the North American Commission for Environmental Cooperation and the University of Minnesota Center for Integrated Natural Resources and Agricultural Management to develop a certification program for palms that will ensure the palm harvesters are earning a fair income for their labor, and the palms are being harvested in an environmentally sustainable way.

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