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Under a 2-foot-tall tree, I played out the drama of Jesus' coming
… or made their way to Bethlehem by following the light from the star atop the tree, a piece of plastic that glowed within from a white Christmas bulb stuck inside. The figurines were small and …
COP24: It's not about resources anymore; it's about moral maturity
… person went about life. There were vendors who encouraged people to abandon Styrofoam cups and plastic straws, and save energy by wearing wool in winter weather rather than turn up the heat in …
Friars and nuns from Brazil bring food, prayer to LA's Skid Row
… , one hand wheeling an ice chest filled with oranges and bottled water, the other clutching plastic bags of peanut butter and ham and cheese sandwiches, chips and fruit snacks. Dressed in a …
Uganda's faith leaders wade into country's alarming drug crisis
… passed, although Uganda does plan next year to ban the sale of sachet alcohol, sold in small plastic pouches. Meanwhile, many addicts in Kampala and other cities across the country still …
Pope's quotes: Respectful of creation
… of thinking and acting that are more respectful of creation. For example: 'avoiding the use of plastic and paper, reducing water consumption, separating refuse, cooking only what can …
Pope: Pray, act to protect clean water, guarantee access to it
… keep the oceans clean instead of allowing them to be "littered by endless fields of floating plastic." Thinking of oceans and seas, also led the pope to think of the thousands of migrants …
Parish roundup: Puerto Rico rebuilds; kids create prosthetic; garden ministry
… in Portland, Oregon, has worked with fellow classmates at St. John Fisher School to fabricate plastic prosthetic hands for potential use by underprivileged children. The device is created by …
To follow Jesus, we must become vulnerable
… when we named his society "companions of Jesus." As the commercialized phrase reads on plastic wristbands, "What Would Jesus Do?" (or "WWJD"), let us fall deeply into what that …
Update: Planned Nevada execution halted after use of lethal drug disputed
… an Arizona court for the 2001 murder of James "Griffin" Green, whose remains were found in a plastic bag in a desert north of Phoenix. Should his execution go through, it would be the first …
Robins' nest-building reminds me of parents at border
… too, have few tools. But they are determined. And what we may mistake for debris — all the plastic bags and makeshift belongings, the trail of empty water bottles abandoned in the desert — …
Looking to have an impact on climate change? Start with lunch
… Because the mice love what we leave behind after lunch. Most of the 40 people bring their own plastic packaged food, leftovers from home. We call it the "Tupperware" parade. We rarely share …
NCR Archives: Saginaw Bishop Untener 'There goes a shepherd'
… in it, he certainly lives out of it. The backseat and trunk are packed with bags, boxes of plastic cups, a set of golf clubs, a tennis racket, a miter that he rarely wears and a crosier, a …
The advice in 'The Graduate' was wrong
… to St. Louis's Intercommunity Ecological Council. Her eyes were opened to the omnipresence of plastic. Plastic is filling the oceans and cluttering the beaches, killing fish and fowl and … around a pink plastic Q-tip. In 1967, a family friend advised Dustin Hoffman to go into plastics in the movie "The Graduate." Wrong. So Roberta and I began to try to rid our house of …
NCR Podcast: Reducing plastic waste
… NCR Staff … For Catholics seeking to reduce their own consumption of plastics, the parish often provides a first area. Hospitality gatherings after Mass and other … staff writer Brian Roewe's three-part series "Reducing Waste" looks at the challenge posed by plastic pollution — the theme of Earth Day 2018 — and how Catholic parishes and communities are … taken up by many parishes for years, now in the spotlight with a 2018 Earth Day theme to end plastic pollution. In the second article in "Reducing Waste," Catholic parishes and hospitals …
'Please ... forgive us': the story of my return to the church
… every opportunity. I'd built my own altar in my bedroom: a cardboard box draped with a towel, plastic statues of Jesus, Mary and Joseph rewarded for saying my prayers, my mother's crucifix …
Reducing waste: Parish change begins with awareness, bins and reminders
… the throwaway culture? A toolkit created by the Earth Day Network , which set ending plastic pollution as the theme for the 48th Earth Day celebration, suggests a three-step process … study in Science Advances , cited by the Earth Day Network, there has been 9.1 billion tons of plastic produced since the 1950s, with that number expected to grow to 13.2 billion tons by 2050. … people direction and an easy outlet to dispose of recyclable and compostable materials — from plastics, to food waste, to old batteries — makes all the difference in keeping it out of their …
Morning Briefing
… to reduce and recycle . … Part 1: … 'Throwaway culture' in spotlight as Earth Day targets plastics … Commentary: … Water unites us, so make it available to all … Justice Action …
Reducing waste: Catholic parishes, hospitals see results from efforts to reduce and recycle
… That thinking roughly a decade ago led the parish to make their own transition away from cheap plastic foam cups to corn-based compostable coffee cups. The move didn't take much convincing, … "Any time you get a cup from Starbucks, it's not a compostable cup," he said, pointing out the plastic lining on the cup's inside making it incompatible with paper recycling or composting. In … program will ask parishioners to "take the pledge" to minimize their own use of single-use plastics and materials. "There's a shame in that, I think, that all these coffee cups and things …
Reducing waste: 'Throwaway culture' in spotlight as Earth Day targets plastics
… gone, finally. It took nearly nine months, but at long last for Betsy Zolper the thousands of plastic foam cups that once filled the pantries at St. Mark Catholic Church, in Vienna, Virginia, … plastic pollution, with a particular aim to reduce the use and quick disposal of single-use plastics. According to a 2017 study in Science Advances , cited by the Earth Day Network, of the …