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Ordinary time allows us to celebrate the great mysteries
… of separation, the Eucharist of Ordinary Time, is being celebrated -- making the chrome and plastic airport soar like the Cathedral at Chartres with the real religious mystery. Ordinary …
Responsibility for sex abuse and Wisconsin's new Senator
… vote on any of the issues. Johnson helped start a company based in Oshkosh that manufactured plastic for medical device companies. He poured $4.4 million of his own money into his political …
Toronto Catholic high schools work to eliminate bottled water
… on Bottled Water Free Day. Development and Peace has invited schools to collect discarded plastic water bottles throughout the year, place pledge cards to be bottled water-free inside them and then to create pirate ships out of the plastic bottles. On March 10, these ships will be displayed at the archdiocesan Catholic …
As Sudan vote begins, fears of violence seem unrealized
… dips her left index finger into indelible purple dye, after casting her folded ballot into the plastic bin, to show that she has voted. (NCR photo/CRS/ Christina S.N. Lewis) Sacred Heart Sr. … dips her left index finger into indelible purple dye, after casting her folded ballot into the plastic bin, to show that she has voted. (NCR photo/CRS/ Christina S.N. Lewis) … JUBA, SUDAN … -- …
Suggested Lenten actions to benefit the Earth
… Eliminate or decrease consumption of soda, bottled water, and drinks purchased in styrofoam or plastic cups/bottles f) Use canvas bags for your groceries and other purchases … Make changes in … needy through a thrift store. f) Buy appliances that are energy efficient g) Don’t take the plastic bags at stores. Bring cloth bag if you need one … Recycle and dispose properly … a) Use the recyling bin your city provides. Recyle your aluminum and tin cans, plastics, newspapers and other paper. Take your glass to a recycling center. b) Collect your …
Ecopsychology: Healthy planet, healthy people
… tinctures and their organic vitamins. Then the checker asks them to choose between paper or plastic. Either option is a choice that harms the environment, either by destroying trees or … We take our turn and virtuously produce our cloth bag, thereby neatly disarming the paper/plastic dilemma. My statement of righteous indignation about my predecessor in line as we walk …
Advent journal: three reflections
… about the toys we had for our sons when they were young: a little wooden carpenter bench with plastic pegs you could pound down with a plastic hammer, a busy box with a mirror and various rollers, a transparent plastic thing with wooden beads in it that you could push and an octagonal plastic ball with …
Eco pet practices
… and it works great. When picking up dog waste on walks, find an alternative to the black plastic bags. When picking up poop in the back yard, I use the plastic bag my newspaper comes in. And if you have to clean up “accidents” in the house … natural ones online or make your own if you possibly can. t Finally, don’t purchase cheap or plastic pet supplies, which end up all too quickly in the landfills. Find durable toys that last, …
Go green: Steps to a greener church community
… not only reduces strain on landfills but reduces the need for raw material. Paper, cardboard, plastic, steel and aluminum are a few of the most commonly recycled materials. Reusability and …
The Silence of the Yams (or How to eat and stay alive)
… (Note from me: I remember reading somewhere that margarine is one molecule away from being plastic.) Rule 13: Eat only foods that will eventually rot (except honey, Pollan says, that can … like the yam, that isn’t pretty and doesn’t have the voice of television commercials or flashy plastic packaging of so much of what huge corporations pass off as food at the store. The silence …