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Prominent Capitol insurrectionists lose jobs
… Jan. 6 events. Already arrested and charged are the man who brought a host of "zip ties," or plastic handcuffs, with him into the Capitol; the man who dressed in a Teutonic-style horn …
2021 seen as a year to make up lost ground on climate change
… Si' goals include steps like achieving carbon neutrality, defending all life, using less plastic and eating less meat, and divesting from fossil fuels while reinvesting in renewable …
EarthBeat Weekly: In Amazonian Nativity scenes, Jesus is born in midst of everyday life
… wooden church. By the time I'd finished breakfast, there was a wooden frame covered with blue plastic to the right of the sanctuary. As a bucket brigade hauled water to fill it, several … corridors became makeshift wards, and patients lay on mats on the floor, tethered by narrow plastic tubes to lifegiving cylinders of oxygen. Then the oxygen ran out. Demand outstripped … kit, a food basket and an oxygen cylinder. Outside of several houses are cadavers wrapped in plastic, a grim and sorrowful reminder of the powerlessness of families who lost loved ones and …
Christmas comes in Honduras amid post-hurricane devastation
… which they were fleeing. Some lost their houses and belongings, were living on roadsides under plastic sheeting and were completely unattended by the Honduran government. A new wave of …
Vatican City State is pesticide-free, imports green energy
… it not as waste but as a resource," he said. The Vatican no longer sells single-use plastic products and about 65% of regular waste is being successfully separated for recycling, he …
In defense of the Vatican's 'back to the future' Nativity scene
… one composed entirely of rubber duckies. As a child, my yearly job and joy was setting up the plastic set my mother ordered — without permission! — at her parochial grade school. In the …
Simple Advent, Abundant Life: do our part and be the tree
… I took the lead on starting to properly recycle. In my household, we recycle and avoid using plastic bottles, plates and anything that can hurt our environment. My family also takes a day …
Five years after Paris, the ecological alarm is ringing loud and clear
… (for example, efforts on divestment from fossil fuels by many institutions, bans on single-use plastic in some regions, the initiation of processes towards "green deals," based on a vision of …
Simple Advent, Abundant Life: liberation through packing lightly
… then, I have been trying to make similar changes, such as decreasing my use of single-waste plastics by opting for reusable water bottles and reducing my carbon footprint by consuming less … was ignorant of the connection between the car I drive and the earth's rising temperature, the plastic I use and the cluttered bodies of water, the waste I produce that is dumped in developing …
EarthBeat Weekly: 'Love your local ecosystem'
… this week: … Courts in Washington, D.C., and Louisiana returned permits for a controversial plastics factory to government agencies for further study of the project's environmental and …
Court rulings stall controversial plastics factory in Louisiana
… Claire Schaeffer-Duffy … Formosa Plastic Group's plan to build a $9.4 billion plastics manufacturing complex in Louisiana has suffered notable setbacks after federal and state …
Three books about peacemaking offer solidarity, solace and hope
… of the blue, Abdullah begins singing. As McRay looks at and listens to Abdullah sitting in his plastic chair, the elderly man begins singing a song from Shakespeare's "As You like It": "… come …
EarthBeat Weekly: World's hunger for gold deadly for miners, environment
… vaporized with the pandemic. Miners and their families live near the craters in shacks made of plastic tarps. Stripped of trees, the soil is unstable, and little or nothing is done to shore up …
Global climate action at stake in US election, faith activists say
… air quality. They have nothing to do with forest protection. They have nothing to with marine plastic pollution," Warah said. Trump also suspended in 2017 U.S. contributions to the Green …