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Progressives embrace religious liberty for their own causes
… their campaigns for social change. They’re pressing ahead, for instance, with plans to install solar panels over a local board’s objections in Massachusetts and to establish tent cities for … allegedly violating its religious rights when the board denied a permit application to install solar panels atop the 1817 meetinghouse. “The HDC erred when it refused to consider First …
Editorial: Let next synod be about peacemaking
… women off the streets and into new lives. Besides baking and catering, Homeboys are installing solar panels. Eleven years ago, Sr. Dorothy Stang was murdered on the side of an unpaved road on …
The scariest issue rarely mentioned in the campaign
… but there are ways to propose new job possibilities by building new plants to manufacture solar panels and/or windmills in places like West Virginia and Kentucky. I know that "solar" is a booming business right now, having recently installed solar panels on the roof of my house! And of course, Donald Trump does not even believe in …
Archbishop Chaput's regrettable column
… The median U.S. income is about $56,000. Neither major candidate lives anywhere near the solar system where most Americans live, work and raise families. Nonetheless, we're asked to …
Vermont's Mercy Farm offers visitors peace and quiet, lessons in earth care
… encouraged to find ways they can care for it: organic gardening, recycling, composting, using solar power and reusing, for example. Here visitors can experience God in creation; one college … environmental education, organic gardening and sustainable living practices that include solar energy for about 85 percent of their electric needs. Located on 39 acres -- including eight … a library, an art room and quiet space. There is a bee yard with hives and a barn with 20 solar panels. Two sheep -- Bailey and Dexter -- and numerous egg-laying hens live on the farm …
Morning Briefing
… expressed diverse views on the matter in past writings. … Charity Sr. Paula Gonzalez, 'the solar nun,' dies at age 83. She was a long-time advocate of renewable energy. … Catholic faith an …
Charity Sr. Paula Gonzalez, 'the solar nun,' dies at age 83
… coming together to choose the future: This is the beginning of the ecological era.” … ‘The solar nun’ … Widely known as “the solar nun,” it is probably no surprise that “Paula died on a SUN-day,” reflected Canadian Charity …
Laudato Si' and the liturgical work ahead
… preach and write about the issues and urge the places where I live and work to consider going solar. I don’t do anything like the damage done by corporate leaders who refuse to take …
AME Church: Climate change disproportionately hurts blacks
… away from the dirty fuels that make us sick and shift toward safe, clean energy like wind and solar that help make every breath our neighbors and families take a healthy one,” reads a …
A political platform for all people
… that fossil fuels remain in the ground and that clean renewable sources of energy like wind, solar and geothermal be put on the fast track. Finally, a platform for all the people cannot …
Links for 07/14/16
… which has so far been resistant to developing sustainable energy. Puerto Rico has ample solar and wind power, but the island gets less than 1 percent of its power from sustainable …
Year-old Laudato Si' has stirred up action for Earth
… around the encyclical to move away from fossil fuels and forests as energy sources and adopt solar technology. The Philippines church -- residing in one of the most climate vulnerable … efficiency in its buildings , and San Diego, which has encouraged all parishes to install solar-power systems. "Things are just popping up all over the place," said Dan Misleh, executive …
Parishes around the globe work to implement pope's eco-encyclical
… The parish "replaced all the lighting with LED lighting by the end of March, installed solar panels on the church and school, and have newly acquired recycle bins for all the meeting … look into the use of "rain gardens to mitigate storm water runoff," along with "investigating solar power and developing a sustainable use policy for all functions held at the parish. This …
Now is the time to start a carbon tax
… of oil and gas down, consumers are driving more miles and purchasing big cars and trucks. Solar power and other nonpolluting sources of energy are in trouble because with cheap oil and … standards on automobiles, subsidizes converting corn into ethanol, and encourages solar power through tax credits. None of this would be necessary if we had a high carbon tax. If …
The Field Hospital: Covering parish life
… said. When they recently sent the structure out for refurbishing (including installation of a solar light), they were amazed at the number of neighbors and strangers who expressed concern …
Laudato Si' turns one year old: Time for action
… can be taken now represent low-hanging fruit, such as switching to LED lighting or installing solar panels on our facilities. Down the road, if we do not pick the low-hanging fruit now, we …
Mercy turns the world upside down
… a nearly blank image. Twenty-five years earlier, in 1990, Voyager 1 turned its camera upon our solar system and took a planetary family portrait. Obscured in the sun's rays and almost entirely …
Long-term commitment key to Seattle parish 'going green'
… of Guadalupe Parish campus features an array of "living green" initiatives -- projects like solar panels, water catchment, recycling and energy monitoring. However, the long-term example …
Puerto Rico Day at the Congress
… opportunity, starting with conversion to sustainable energy: Puerto Rico has abundant wind and solar resources, yet gets less than one percent of its electricity from these sources. They pay …
The Field Hospital: Covering parish life
… A priest from upstate New York retired in St. Augustine, Fla., and preaches the gospel of solar power in the Sunshine State. Parishes need to do more, he says. Parishes are closing in the …