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… used the season to hold Green Masses and environmentally themed prayer reflections, as well as tree plantings, local environmental cleanups and animal blessings on the season's final day, Oct. …

… is a chance to recover something of their true selves. … Laudato Si' 84 … When I am among the trees, especially the willows and the honey locust, equally the beech, the oaks and the pines, … such hints of gladness. I would almost say that they save me, and daily. When I am Among the Trees , Mary Oliver … REFLECT … This Season of Creation we are invited to contemplate the theme, …

… in Portland, Oregon, that have different amounts of vegetation — some with mature trees, some with lower vegetation, others with a mix of trees and buildings, and some with virtually no greenery at all — they found that cooling methods … when they were tailored to the characteristics of the local area. In neighborhoods with mature trees, for example, the greatest effect would come not from planting more trees, but from …

… expected parts of the city to be very hot because of extensive development and lack of tree cover, but there were some surprises. The eastern side of the city, for example, was a lot … power plants, making buildings more energy efficient and increasing green space by planting trees, including native species. "These programs will prioritize tree planting in underserved communities and increase the city’s overall tree canopy," the plan …

… green space, as climate change drives temperatures even higher. "The question is who gets the trees?" said Eric Strauss, executive director of the Center for Urban Resilience at Loyola … in Los Angeles County, home to 10 million people. It found that roughly 20% of the county had tree cover, but it wasn't distributed evenly. Some areas had as much as 80% tree cover, while …

… not OK. It's frustrating," said Tetreault, who lives in St. Robert, Missouri, and co-owns a tree, lawn and landscape company. Chris Pereira , an Air National Guard tech sergeant who …

… he meets Jesus, he is astonished when Jesus tells him he has seen him at prayer “under the fig tree.” Nathaniel has apparently been reflecting on the text about Jacob’s vision at Bethel of a …

… pressure of warming temperatures causes the sap to flow through "a wound or tap hole" in maple trees — (a description I came across on a maple tree farm website). All these metaphors and images arose to help me understand that the …

… either. Driving out of New Orleans each morning, I passed exhausted estuaries full of leafless trees. Activists in the river communities, many of them women, have been fighting industry's … folding chairs. Others, including families with small children, are camped in nearby groves of trees. The Treaty People Gathering marks the biggest convergence of people to date in the …

… five years. "The population is desperate and beleaguered. They are sleeping outside under the trees, in open public spaces, to protect themselves from aftershocks arriving every few hours," …

… In an effort to emphasize acculturation over assimilation, Rodríguez displayed her own family tree to highlight the mestizaje in her own life. Ecuador, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Germany, Vietnam …