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Virginia shines as solar hot spot in Catholic Energies expansion
… Catholic Energies reveals a noticeable geographic pattern: Virginia is a growing hotbed of solar activity. Last month, three parishes in the Arlington Diocese powered up new solar installations, each developed and financed through Catholic Energies, the burgeoning …
Copy Desk Daily, Aug. 12, 2020
… — while socially distanced. On EarthBeat today: Did you know that when it comes to going solar, churches in Virginia are leading the way? Things that help include having the headquarters …
EarthBeat Weekly: How Isaias, COVID-19 and Beirut connect to climate change
… Climate Now media partnership, Rishika Pardikar reports that India is making way for huge solar panel arrays in the Thar Desert by bulldozing patches of forest that local communities …
Solar mandates in India's sacred groves
… target to generate 175 gigawatts of renewable energy by 2022 . Lands chosen to generate the solar component of this energy goal include the Thar Desert, a huge ecosystem in northwest India … Foundation , a Rajasthan-based conservation organization. The GSS will also support a large solar park. Although the park will be installed outside the oran, many residents worry it is …
Environmental scientist roots work in sanctity of life: A conversation with Sylvia Hood Washington
… a narrative about how we are changing all of God's creation. Laudato Si' is not just about solar panels. He is talking about the integrity of all life, and how the integrity of all life is … we are contributing or turning away from our fellow man dying. Climate change is not about solar panels. I think that's great. But for me, as an epidemiologist and a Catholic, it's about …
How the University of Dayton divested from fossil fuels — and what happened to its bottom line
… to go along with existing minor and graduate certificates, and installed a 1.2-megawatt solar array. For years, students have conducted energy audits in the student residences. Dayton …
Discovering ecological conversion in the spirit of Laudato Si'
… to lay our brick on this ecological path. We just bought our first house and a top priority is solar installation. We also plan to cultivate our own vegetable garden, which we have yet to do …
Discovering a 'great grace' in the time of COVID-19
… as possible, in small ways like composting and hanging clothes to dry, and in big ways like solar power and geothermal heating and cooling. Due to this time of full-family lockdown, …
Become a climate hero
… system reliable is leaving coal plants and transitioning to clean energy sources like wind and solar. …
Laudato Si' five years out: five themes from a scholarly review of its impact
… efficient energy projects for Catholic organizations. They financed the installation of 440 solar panels at Immaculate Conception parish in Hampton, Virginia, at a cost of $350,000 and a … began work, with Catholic Charities in the Archdiocese of Washington, D.C., to place 5,000 solar panels in a field to complement the district's energy grid. … 4. Work comes from many …
Links for Woods Hole webinar on faith responses to climate change
… | Dec. 4, 2015 … Catholic Energies program … Catholic Charities to build D.C.'s largest solar array | July 16, 2019 A Virginia parish switched to 100% solar power — and paid nothing | July 1, 2019 … Faith Science Alliance in Massachusetts … …
Five years ago, Pope Francis asked us to care for Earth. Have we listened?
… In April, Catholic Charities of Washington Archdiocese completed construction of a 2-megawatt solar array — the largest solar installation in the District. The solar project was facilitated by Catholic Energies, a program of Catholic Climate Covenant. Since …
NCR editorial: It's past time to step up to Laudato Si'
… programs prompting encouraging changes in behavior and policies . There have even been some solar panel installations . And yet, as a group the American bishops more often have addressed …
World has 'historic' opportunity for green tech boost, says global watchdog
… kind of subsidy and policy support that have helped to propel spectacular growth in wind and solar power from a low base over the past decade. Global installed solar capacity increased from 40 gigawatts (GW) in 2010 to 580 GW in 2019, according to the Abu … for a wide range of purposes, from powering electric vehicles to storing energy generated by solar or wind plants to ensure a steady supply of electricity at night or when the wind isn't …
Climate crisis will deepen the pandemic; A green stimulus plan can tackle both
… in energy-saving building retrofits, 22 jobs for mass transit, 13 for wind, and 14 for solar. Kammen's research and that of other institutes all concur that investment in a modern … communities, following best practices in California, we can bring technologies like solar and battery storage to neighborhoods that have been scandalously left out of the clean … Stimulus is perfect. Bridge-loans and advance payments on public green purchases of goods like solar panels and electric vehicles for public use would stabilize firms' and workers' finances. …
An Earth Day activist looks back: How far have we come?
… to participate in business competitions for social ventures. In 2002, I brought the idea of a solar power web farm, but it was dismissed as "too early." In 2007, I was told by a competition …
Women religious model the Christian ecological vocation
… creatively focus their mission on ecological justice issues. Sisters became as articulate in solar technology as they are in the Gospels. With diverse education and training, they now fill …
Hymns, teach-ins and a horse ride to school: Catholic stories of the first Earth Day
… Today, he's the energy manager for a Northern California hospital system that's installing solar panels, while his eldest sister is a park ranger at Yosemite National Park. Down the coast, …
Links for 4/7/20
… energy companies wanting to cash in on every last drop of oil before they try and corner the solar market, the GOP stance is driven by greed more than pride. (h/t to Steve Russo) In The New …
EarthBeat Weekly: An eco-streaming guide while we're cooped up by coronavirus
… [ Read here for more. ] … "Catching the Sun" … (2015), looks at the economics of the global solar energy industry. On Amazon Prime, the prime environmental feature brings together two …