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 N&N 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.

Q. What is land justice?

A. Land justice is 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:

1. protecting land from extraction;

2. regenerating the health of the land and ecosystems;

3. 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.