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Ashes to ashes, stardust to stardust
… the opportunity to be spiritual is an ever-ready battery. Spiritual practices are more like solar energy than anything else. They shine. They are an energy that creates more energy. Like solar, many people think they can’t afford the long-term investment. Thus we stick to electricity …
LA Labor Leaders Invite Pope Francis to Visit Their City
… Jose Gomez who has given his blessing to the effort. Like the kids in West Virginia who make solar panels for poor families in Africa, when someone wants to highlight a social justice …
Preach-in asks: Spend Valentine's Day loving creation
… and mosques to look at ways they can scale back their energy use, such as installing solar panels or other green forms of lighting fixtures, to combat climate change. Jesuit Fr. John …
Christian stewardship group seeks to blow top off mountaintop removal
… 37 percent of all consumption attributed to coal. In contrast, renewable energy sources like solar and wind, among others, only contributed 5 percent. Renewing Eden urges people to …
"Let there be light"
… electrical engineering. In 2009, they formed New Vision Renewable Energy . “We started making solar panels in our own community for families who needed help paying for utilities,” Seaman told me. They discovered that those old, heavy glass tub doors could be modified to make a solar panel. Who knew? In March 2012, Seaman traveled to Kenya. “We had a woman, Cindy Kelley, … forth a missionary. I traveled with her to help get her established.” They brought along a solar cooker. This provoked a conversation with one of the men in the village where Kelley would …
Green sisters featured in The Atlantic
… and offsetting carbon," wrote Angela Evancie, the piece's author. "They're as well-versed in solar and geothermal technology as they are the Gospels of Luke and John, and some wear Carhartts …
Pope can help focus concern for climate
… Vatican City as the greenest nation on Earth. Pope Benedict XVI oversaw the installation of solar power that enables this admittedly city-state-sized nation to stake this claim. Francis …
Catholic voices raise moral concerns in country's fracking debates
… energy consumption and the importance of developing renewable energy resources such as solar and wind power. "As the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said once again [in …
'Soil and Sacrament' explores farming's spiritual side
… do much for me. It gives the misperception that if we just replace our current energy use with solar or wind or something, we can keep consuming at the same rate, when all of the signals are …
Collaborative effort transforms N.J. parish into GreenFaith sanctuary
… you’ll notice a not-so-ordinary feature glimmering in the sunlight on top of its roof. “The solar panels make the place look more attractive,” opines Fr. Bob Stagg, the pastor. While an … in light of already ongoing efforts. As early as 2009, it had begun the process of placing solar panels on the church. It had also updated its bathrooms to use less water and replaced … People inside and outside the parish pray and contemplate as they walk the labyrinth. The solar panels have slashed energy costs in half, while Stagg has seen a contagious energy grow in …