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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 …
EarthBeat Weekly: Looking back at a year of EarthBeat
… … Susan Vogt had doubts about efforts by Brazil's Rio de Janeiro Archdiocese to recycle plastics . "This is good," she wrote, "BUT what happens to the plastics collected? The article said it was sent to somewhere in Canada. Of course that means … solution is to reduce the consumption of single-use plastics, thus driving the producers of plastic to change to produce other commodities. This would also help reduce the pollution that …
Sharon Lavigne's fighting faith on the bayou
… looked across the highway at the lush sugarcane fields and wetlands where Taiwan-based Formosa Plastics Group planned to build one of the largest plastics factories in the world. The … Group, the complex will manufacture ethylene and propylene used to produce a wide range of plastic goods. Formosa promises 1,200 new jobs with annual salaries averaging $84,700, plus …
Brazilian archdiocese joins plastic recycling program to reduce ocean waste
… The Archdiocese of Rio de Janeiro has launched a partnership with a Canadian company to reduce plastic disposal into the oceans. Church officials said the venture with Plastic Bank offers a … at the Our Lady of Penha Sanctuary to mark its start. "With simple gestures, we will eliminate plastics from our homes, streets and rivers, and prevent them from reaching the oceans," the …
'God has given me a set of skills' to help others, says doctor, mentor, volunteer
… said. The migrant workers watched as the team arrived and quickly unloaded tables, chairs and plastic totes full of equipment and set them up under the portico. Braulio Franco, a FLOC …
Oxfam: World's poor suffer from carbon emissions generated by the rich
… more than 10-year-old vehicles in Ghana and the poor are protesting. Government wants to ban plastics and the poor are protesting. So, if we begin to apportion the blame, we will not get …