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How to store leftovers in an earth-friendly and healthy way
… of holiday meals over the following days and many a kitchen cabinet is well stocked with plastic tubs, cling wrap and other containers. Although they cut down on food waste, some … but knowing more about different types of containers (including the type of resin for plastic containers) can help you make better choices. "Simple Steps" on the Natural Resources …
Buying meat in bulk saves farms and the environment
… inspected by the state and/or federal government and come in marked butcher paper or labeled plastic. Some sell at farmers' markets by the individual cut. 3. Some poultry producers prefer to …
The new retirement for America's seniors: Bankruptcy
… compared with younger bankruptcy filers, 44.8 percent of those aged 65 and older also had more plastic in their wallets. “They’re using credit cards as a maladaptive coping mechanism,” Pottow …
Green your autumn
… your spring garden or front and back yard trees bloom. Instead of cramming raked leaves into plastic bags that end up in landfills, use them to begin a compost pile. For information on how …
Preaching care of the Earth with poetry
… crude Chinese that workers used. His wage was $2.30 a day. “No air conditioning, it smelled of plastic and paint, but I learned a lot in there.” He spent some time in Latin America also, …
Churches step up relief work in Pakistan
… network has been destroyed. An official of Caritas Pakistan said some supplies, including plastic sheeting for shelter, water purification tablets, cooking utensils and food items, have …
The pope and La Curandera, the Healer
… and “the old teachers and old people”... that too much time spent in an injection-molded plasticizing culture means that one must swerve every day and hard against being absorbed by a … university to test one’s thoughts and discuss all sides doesn’t come from, as I stated above, plasticizing everything in sight so that everything is pleasantly dead instead of thrillingly …
Roles of bishop, cathedral intertwine
… that the decision to use a modern arena, with its industrial carpet, fluorescent light, and plastic seating, represents precisely the triumph of the modern, utilitarian, functionalist …
Being Catholic means finding God at every turn
… in our liturgies about using real candles, not the phony electric ones, genuine plants, not plastic greenery? Can we identify the turning of liturgical seasons by the choreography of …
A teacher and her students
… not to back down when you are challenged or frightened, but to move ahead. My Jesus is not the plastic statue Jesus, my Jesus is the radical Jesus. He died for us -- yes, we hear that all the …
Beautiful boys and fantastical toys
… irony of the conclusion of "Toy Story 3," however, when the toys are saved from oblivion, that plastic will outlast all of us -- and this is enough to make us weep as we applaud another …
Working to bring 'Reign of God' to Haiti
… to the car. As I opened the car door, he saw on the floor of the car, a container—one of those plastic containers that you might take home food from a restaurant—and he jumped right away and …
Why the World Cup is Good for Us
… when the goalie, another five-year-old, was looking the other way. Don’t worry; they all got a plastic trophy, because this is all about fun and sportsmanship, right? I have just now returned …