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With Christmas gifts, less can be more
… will appreciate. … Give things that reduce energy usage … , such as commuter bicycles, solar-powered products, battery rechargers and carbon offsets. … Avoid excessively packaged …
Toward greener Catholic campuses
… St. John’s University in nearby Collegeville held a groundbreaking ceremony in October for a solar array consisting of 1,820 photovoltaic modules that will supply power on campus. The array …
Vatican discusses extraterrestrial life
… in planet detection have since led scientists to discover more than 400 planets outside of the solar system and dozens more are found each year, he said. Jonathan Lunine, professor of … science and physics at the University of Arizona, said three or four worlds within the solar system also have conditions where life may be found. More research into how the Earth and …
The big day for 350.org
… 350 times. Villagers in a remote, drought-stricken region of Somalia will demonstrate 350 solar cookers. In Bolivia, indigenous Aymara shamans will hold a ceremony where the glacier …
KC Nuke Plant: Lawsuit Dismissed, Opposition Continues
… Industrial Expansion Authority. “All we need to do is get folks to make wind tunnels and solar energy panels instead of nukes,” read the e-mail. “It's that simple.” To see the report …
Morning Briefing
… Court … Book of Genesis Faithfully Presented by Controversial Comic Book Artist … CUA Goes Solar … Nurses Plan One-Day Strike …
Morning Briefing
… non-abortion pregnancy centers clearly lableled … Press Release: Catholic University goes solar … Items from closed Cleveland churches for sale online … Former parish priest pleads guilty …
Morning Briefing
… a Catholic, struggles with gay marriage bill … California Catholic college places third in Solar Decathlon on Mall … Pa. Catholic priest faces child pornography charges … Portland diocese …
USA shouldn't have 'working poor'
… to get sustainable jobs, especially "green jobs in the energy sector" in fields such as wind, solar, fuel cell and biomass energy. He also asked them to support an extension of emergency …
The power of the sun
… can be harnessed and water can be purified through a simple, self-sustaining plan that uses solar energy. Along with industry experts, the congregation developed a plan to create a … with local Nigerian and Congolese vendors and contractors in construction, electricity, solar connections, and telecommunications to ensure ongoing supervision and maintenance of the … and explored alternative solutions to the problem Discussed the possibility of initiating solar-powered projects with the local Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur leaders in the Congo and …
A spiritual, ecological celebration
… to a more eco-friendly heating system; the next, still in the planning stage, is to install solar panels.) For Catholics, the environmental cause “reaches right into our social justice …
'Putting flesh on God's activity in the world'
… the barn is a large organic garden. Nearby is a four-bedroom guesthouse. Farm residents use solar energy; stick to whole food nutrition; recycle and compost; dry and can farm-grown organic … and yarn, and knitted and crocheted garments.” On the farm there is also a labyrinth and solar walk-in greenhouse. “Our 32-acre pasture has mowed walking paths and two ponds. The straw-bale hermitage is powered by a solar panel. A creek is spanned by two wooden bridges, and a wonderful ancient ash tree has a …
Benedict XVI's very own shade of green
… and indeed even serious errors” in a 1962 Vatican judgment that was confirmed in 1981. Solar panels were installed this week on the pope’s private home in Regensburg, Germany, which … power into the German electric grid. That move comes on the heels of the 2008 installation of solar panels atop the Vatican’s audience hall, a project which captured that year’s Euro Solar …
Pope cites Teilhardian vision of the cosmos as a 'living host'
… a "green pope," Pope Benedict XVI has amassed a striking environmental record, from installing solar panels in the Vatican to calling for ecological conversion. Now the pontiff has also hinted …
Solar-powered rectories, biking to Sunday Mass
… to me early that if it doesn’t come from churches, I don’t know where it will come from.” Solar collectors on the St. Elizabeth Rectory garage roof provide hot water. In 1997 his parish … and low-flow showerheads were installed, and rain barrels added to supply the garden. A solar attic fan was installed in the rectory. The sun hits a small photovoltaic panel located on …
Solar-powered rectories, biking to Sunday Mass
… to me early that if it doesn’t come from churches, I don’t know where it will come from.” Solar collectors on the St. Elizabeth Rectory garage roof provide hot water. In 1997 his parish … and low-flow showerheads were installed, and rain barrels added to supply the garden. A solar attic fan was installed in the rectory. The sun hits a small photovoltaic panel located on …
Solar power: Let the sunshine in
… Catholic Relief Services. Meanwhile, amid efforts to promote energy and water conservation, solar-powered parishes are a focus. Five San Jose parishes -- Holy Spirit, Holy Family, St. … and St. Lucy -- plus Gate of Heaven Cemetery in Los Altos are participating in the diocese’s solar energy initiative. Solar panels will be placed on rooftops, parking lots and in open, …
San Jose diocese: Going Green Leader
… … According to a press release, Photon Energy Services , a leading developer and integrator of solar electric generation systems, has unveiled plans to create one of the largest Catholic solar projects in America working in collaboration with the San Jose, Calif., dicoese. Partnering with five parish/school combinations and one cemetery, Photon will provide solar energy for Holy Spirit, Holy Family, St. Christopher, Queen of Apostles, St. Lucy and Gate …
Thomas Berry's reach
… a spirituality that is as deep as the earth process itself, a spirituality born out of the solar system and even out of the heavens beyond the solar system. There in the stars is where the primordial elements take shape in both their …
Angels & Demons: Everyone's trying to save the church
… persecution of scientists who put the sun, rather than the earth, at the center of the solar system. The society included such scientific greats as Galileo and Bernini. (Historical …