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Couple's self-designed house helps keep carbon footprint small
… the summertime, and we have geothermal heating in the winter. We are all electric, using only solar power; which includes solar panels on our nearby garage and a greenhouse attached to the house. The walls are made by …
EarthBeat Weekly: Continuing challenge for people of faith: turning climate concern into action
… are people willing to do? That's a bit more complicated. Nearly two-thirds said they'd install solar panels. Slightly fewer (57%) were willing to drive less, though only 42% said they would …
EarthBeat Weekly: Climate science is clear — it's time for 'hard choices' based on faith values
… in all grades, and the school has taken other steps — such as installing LED lighting and solar panels, harvesting water and recycling — to "build that culture inside every student," Kay …
Lessons from the Amazon unionizing defeat
… should require that all such work be done with union labor. Recently, a West Virginia solar company announced it was now a union shop, working with the International Brotherhood of …
10 years later, 'Journey of the Universe' film more relevant, urgent than ever
… Europe and Africa, in between these great continental masses, and on a planet that's in a solar system. So it's kind of concentric circles going out. We orient ourselves on an island …
Renamed Passionist retreat house reflects Berry's call to heal the Earth
… and Black communities off Hillside Avenue, it will include an indoor hydroponic garden, solar panels, the Reconnect headquarters and a residence for women leaving the prison system. …
US Catholic church is failing to respond to climate emergency, theologian says
… , and various dioceses and parishes have put it into action, including expanded use of solar energy , the full weight of the U.S. church has yet to coalesce behind the pope's call for …
As we pollute the oceans, sea life isn't alone at risk — our health is, too
… all combustion of coal around the world and transitioning as rapidly as possible to wind and solar power is … incredibly important for protecting the planet and for protecting human health," …
Hazel Johnson, the mother of environmental justice, was Catholic
… focus of an EPA investigation . They are working with the Chicago Housing Authority to build a solar farm in their community. And they continue to wait for the government to complete cleanup …
Papal astronomer celebrates Mars missions
… photographs that nobody had ever seen before" of Saturn and its moons and other objects in the solar system. Born in Fort Worth, Texas, in 1974, Macke told Catholic News Service he only …
Tribes, faith leaders petition Biden to end Enbridge Line 3 pipeline
… of the White Earth Band of Ojibwe and executive director of Honor the Earth. Describing the solar project under way in Red Lake Nation that will give the tribe energy sovereignty, and her …