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Hope for creation never runs dry
… car manufacturers develop electric cars, municipalities go to zero waste, single-use plastic begins to disappear, people begin planting milkweed to attract butterflies and bees to …
How four dioceses are actually doing something about the climate crisis
… , a broader green sustainability designation. It has joined several parishes in ditching plastic foam cups and has explored coordinating bulk purchases so more can use more …
Four factors driving pace, scale of climate action in U.S. dioceses
… has explored bulk buys of biodegradable or compostable products for parishes to replace plastic foam cups and plates. While the going can seem slow at times, Doyle sees signs of a …
Caring For Our Common Home
… Candler 252 Wednesday, November 13th: Lecture by Dr. Candace Timpte, "Water, Waster, and Plastic: The Big Three," 1-3pm, CST 360 Thursday, November 14th: Community Sustainability Forum, …
Lazarus at our gate
… with gray donated blankets. Some mothers nap, their little child nestled against them. The plastic bags we've handed out filled with toiletries, a change of clothes, diapers, small baggies …
At catacombs, synod members pledge simplicity, closeness to the poor
… possible and, additionally, to reduce the amount of garbage they produce and to avoid using plastic. They also promised to "cultivate true friendships with the poor, visit the simplest …
More remains of aborted babies found in cars late abortion doctor owned
… eight cars belonging to Klopfer. In the trunk of one late 1990s Mercedes-Benz, they found five plastic bags and one box containing fetal remains. "We anticipate simply adding these remains …
Indigenous scholars invite decolonization of the Anthropocene
… with its concomitant overconsumption and waste, especially nonbiodegradable materials like plastics and concrete, that dramatically alter the dynamics and functioning of the Earth system. …
Visiting Thailand, Pope Francis to champion the poor and the environment
… ocean pollution, while a government study in 2017 stated that, on average, Thais use eight plastic bags a day, amounting to nearly two billion bags a year. As Francis continues to preach …
Season of Creation Daily Day 29: Resting in the grace of the world
… the world, and am free. … — Wendell Berry, The Peace of Wild Things … Americans use 50 billion plastic water bottles per year. Consider your use of plastics. … 4Ocean.com … is an innovative business; it hires people to remove plastic from the oceans; the business is funded through sales of bracelets made from recycled …
Calumny, slander is a 'diabolical cancer,' pope says
… and forgiving those who offend can we see the quality of our faith." "The martyrs are not 'plastic saints,' but men and women of flesh and bone who – as the Book of Revelation says – …
Season of Creation Daily Day 21: Earth, teach me
… it and how long it will be until it is back to raw-material stage. (The average time for a plastic bottle to completely degrade is at least 450 years. From: postconsumers.com ) Start saying "No, thanks" to single-use items, especially plastic ones (bags, cups, containers, straws, etc.) Special thanks for those who model reverence …
At Washington exhibit, the toll of the immigrant journey becomes art
… artist, in a piece labeled with the ironic title "Seven Rooms of Hospitality." It features plastic 3-D printed models of "uncertain spaces occupied by refugees, deportees, and exiles." …
Repent, convert, pray, give up fossil fuels, pope says
… water, the development of more frequent super storms and "the considerable presence of plastics and microplastics in the oceans" are signs of how human greed is making the planet …
It's the least we can do, accompany migrants in spirit by becoming uncomfortable
… of us on the women's side of the bus had slipped our wrists out of the first set of heavy plastic zip ties, there was no getting out of them at the warehouse. But there, at least, I had …
Recalling the harrowing trip to and across the border as a child
… Latin Americans use to refer to human traffickers, covered the group with a black piece of plastic. She and Johnny were resting on the ground next to their mother when Jovel remembers she …
I was in prison and you visited me
… vulnerable? I ask anyway, "Can I hug you?" He nods yes and I do. We sit in the two facing plastic chairs, and I move the small round table between us. I visited this 30-year old son of a …
People are suffering, dying; please stop the rhetoric!
… the capital of Bangladesh, in mid-August. They say 10,000 people are now homeless, their plastic and tin shanties in ruins . [Phyllis Zagano is senior research associate-in-residence …
After Amazonians migrate to cities, they struggle to survive
… an activity with a gift from her mother, a package painstakingly wrapped in a piece of black plastic and tied with scavenged electrical cord. Dias de Albuquerque removed the wrapping with …
Vatican City State set to end sale of single-use plastics
… … After current supplies run out, Vatican City State will no longer be selling any single-use plastic items on its tiny territory. While the European Union pledged in May to ban single-use plastic starting in 2021, the Vatican had already begun limiting its use and soon "it will no … City State's gardens and waste collection. "We have been making an effort to sort as much (plastic) as possible, and the state has limited all sales of single-use plastic," he told the …