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Green Hell?
… species extinction, pollution, deforestation, the increase of disease, shrinking oil reserves, plastics in the oceans, and more. I couldn’t detect any awareness of the connection of all life …
Cleveland parish closings vigorously contested
… of the altar within the 156-year-old church, a longtime parishioner, acting on his own, left a plastic bag of coins with a note that read: “A gift for Bishop Lennon. Thirty pieces of silver …
Catholics pray for pardon, rain in drought-hit China
… provinces and Chongqing Municipality are the worst-hit areas. Shen said people were using plastic pipes to collect water from mountains, but “there is no more water now.” Parishioners …
Go Green: Steps to a greener parish
… 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 …
Know when to fold 'em
… carrying children next to the highway, people coming home from work in the city, carrying plastic bags with basic provisions for waiting families in the simplest of dwellings without … the fading light as we sped by, I saw a child standing alone in a dusty yard. He held a blue plastic ball like one my son had once, many years ago, cherished and played with every day in the …
Anointing
… plaza, food vendors and hawkers of every imaginable commodity, from toilet paper and small plastic bags of sliced papaya to ballpoint pens and pirated DVDs, make up a teeming warren of … our long, white bus, piloted by Santos, both driver and protector, and loaded with large blue plastic containers of potable water, hauled our group with gear-shifting, horn-blaring …
Rains complicate mission to homeless Haitians
… sometimes a few pieces of wood. The more fortunate received an emergency shelter kit, bought plastic tarps or perhaps obtained a small nylon or canvas tent. None of those items were meant to …
Holy Week 2010: Accompanying El Salvador
… day, yet the air was so dry I hardly perspired and was warned to drink water frequently from a plastic bottle I carried everywhere to keep from getting dehydrated. Romero's tomb in the crypt …
A status report on Haiti: Money flows, leadership lags
… had about 60,000 people at night living there, with virtually no shelter. They were cutting up plastic bags and trying to stitch them together, taking old pieces of cardboard that they found … The rectories, the convents, and so on, are destroyed. You've got priests living under those plastic sheets, nuns and catechists, everybody. The physical facilities have been shattered, and …
Spiritual, but not religious
… deliberate effort to live simply. -- Myra and John live in the suburbs of Chicago and keep plastic bins in their garage for recyclables. They spend a few minutes each day sorting and …
Lessons learned in Haiti: From the mouths of babes
… dead I knew that I had to rely on God more.” Barbara would need major reconstructive and plastic surgery. When I explained that we would need to get her to the USA, she cried with joy in …
Five Ways to Help Preserve Clean Water
… of all trash properly. … Never flush non-degradable products -- such as disposable diapers or plastic tampon applicators -- down the toilet. They can damage the sewage treatment process and …
A huge tragedy made startlingly personal
… and humane means of dealing with the corpses. Straub said he watched corpses placed in heavy plastic bags outside of the Haitian Community Hospital, where he has spent considerable time this … personnel were unable to say where the body was. The dead had already been wrapped in heavy plastic and some had been taken away, apparently to one of the mass graves being dug, by a team …
Developing Nicaragua with schools, bakeries and job training
… were purchased and bred to produce piglets. Waste from the pigs flowed into a large, heavy plastic bag (digester) about six feet long. As the waste was heated, it produced gas that was … of the kitchen resisted using the gas because she was afraid of explosions. Secondly, the plastic material of the digester was inadequate, lasting only two years. This brought an end to …
Not wasting the waste
… past 10 to 15 years since globalization hit, the state of Kerala has been having problem of plastics and waste excess. The figures showed that the tourist flow was actually going down in …
Lady Madonna, cyclists at her feet
… in San Francisco splashed a long line of taxis with holy water from a specially sanctified plastic bucket. According to the U.S. Department of Commerce’s American Community Survey and …
With Christmas gifts, less can be more
… packaged products … . The packaging wastes resources without adding value and, if made from plastic, can release toxins after being discarded. … Give tickets … for concerts, shows, museums, …
'Youth of the church are here to help back you up'
… of Charity. All four heads were bent over a craft project: knitting strips of discarded plastic shopping bags into sturdy reusable bags. The Sisters of Charity Federation had chosen the …
Toward greener Catholic campuses
… how to get better.” The university adopted single-stream recycling, wherein glass, paper and plastic all can be recycled in one bin. The Sustainability Office continues to educate the …
Gentle persuasion in the slums of Secunderabad
… her single mother, who lives in a slum. She might earn a dollar or so a day sorting through plastic bottles, cans and rags that are part of people's garbage." When asked if she had ever … The sisters reach out to tiny, outstretched hands and poke their heads into the hovels of blue plastic tarpaulins, shards of wood, metal, cardboard, whatever building material could be cadged …