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… like Rwanda, Turkey, India, China, Haiti and Japan, … using materials like paper tubes and plastic beer crates. Press release: In the documentary "Holy Money," Al Jazeera America … …
Lent a reflection pool for diving into water usage issues
… offers us a mind-boggling bit of math: To produce four gallons of gasoline or a pound of plastic, 70 gallons of water is needed. “As you review these and other issues that damage and …
What words can do with nature
… being gone, leaving small growths coming out of the top of skyscrapers. All that is left is plastic and radiation. I am thinking cell phone batteries survive, too. His book is spurred by …
Massachusetts abbey now producing only Trappist ale outside Europe
… in cardboard cases, six four-packs to a case. The cases are put on wood pallets, wrapped in plastic and stored in a temperature-controlled warehouse. The entire process is automated on an …
Preach-in asks: Spend Valentine's Day loving creation
… of the stores. Plant a tree, pick up trash on the beach, make a commitment to no longer use plastic bottles, screw in a few [compact fluorescent] light bulbs.” Her urgings come from part of … carbon sink trees to absorb carbon dioxide growing organic gardens on church grounds banning plastic cups from parish facilities Coleman stressed that the Christian response to global …
While new coconut trees mature, Filipinos learn to farm other crops
… member was using an ox to plow the field. This particular cluster received a donation of plastic sheeting to cover the long rows of rich soil and bake the roots and seeds of unwanted …
Loretto Sisters continue objections to new pipelines
… and Ohio to the Gulf of Mexico, where it would head overseas for use in producing plastics, synthetics and rubber. Although the pipeline no longer will seek to cross our …
Sisters in Vietnam help the poor enjoy a happier lunar new year
… food, it is a bad sign for the new year,” she noted. Hai Quyen said she started to sell plastic items for a living in 2012 after local nuns had offered her five million dong ($238.00 …
Peter Faber: the new patron saint of business?
… Faber? He is usually one of an indistinguishable line of black-robed Jesuit extras, looking plastically pious at stage left of the mural. His ministry was vital but not headline-grabbing. …
Kathy Kelly: A winter dispatch from Kabul
… across the face with a red hot skewer to shoo him away. Safar clutched a half-filled small plastic Coca-Cola bottle in his hands. Asked why he was drinking cold soda on such a cold day, he said that he had a headache. He was wearing a hoodie, light pants, and plastic slippers. He had no socks or gloves-- hardly adequate attire for working outside in the …
Notre Dame sisters trade excess clutter for clean water
… and her weary volunteers “got a good laugh,” she said, one afternoon when she discovered a plastic card in one of the purses that read, “Shoe lover.” In early December Scaglione sent two …