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EarthBeat Weekly: Laudato Si' is about connection, community as much as carbon footprints
… a picture of their latest grocery haul and is immediately scolded for the pre-cut fruit in plastic packaging. An individual recommends backyard composting and is one-upped by a person who … toward right relation with all creation. (And I promise I won't judge you for buying food in plastic packaging.) Let me know what kinds of stories you would most like to see with an email …
Young Black Catholics confront nature, racism and the church's way forward
… amounts of trash wash ashore, and how some poor Indigenous communities had built huts out of plastic bottles. "It's just really devastating that we care so little about the dignity of others …
EarthBeat Weekly: The stories that captured our readers' attention most in 2021
… Johnson's daughter Cheryl joined Goldman Prize winner Sharon Lavigne, who has fought against plastics factories in Louisiana's "Cancer Alley," as both spoke during the Catholic Climate …
What Gomez could learn from Catholic social and racial justice activists
… example, consider Sharon Lavigne, a Louisiana environmental activist who has fought to keep plastics factories out of her predominantly Black neighborhood that falls within the so-called … by environmental toxins in their neighborhood. After successfully fighting one proposed plastics manufacturing facility in 2018, the group has turned its attention to a plan for one of the largest plastics factories in the world to be built in St. James Parish. It is temporarily on hold. We …
EarthBeat Weekly: 'Pursuit of climate justice is inextricable from the pursuit of racial justice'
… from readers recently: … Last week's EarthBeat Weekly story about the world's addiction to plastic struck a chord with some readers. Pat Heffron-Cartwright wrote: St. Leonard Faith … you for the really helpful — and challenging — reports on EarthBeat! Especially good report on plastics. Here at Bellarmine Prep, Tacoma, [Washington], we have a really good … committee your newsletter connection, especially the current one on plastics. We have banned plastic bottles from the campus. It was the story about "ornitheologists" that resonated with …
EarthBeat Weekly: This Advent, can we start to break our addiction to plastic?
… Nemo" said it best: All drains lead to the ocean. And that's where an alarming amount of plastic waste ends up, according to a new report mandated by the U.S. Congress under the 2020 Save Our Seas 2.0 Act. "An estimated 8 million metric tons of plastic waste enters the world's ocean each year — the equivalent of dumping a garbage truck of … are vivid reminders of the hazards for wildlife, but little is known about what happens when plastics get into the food chain — including into fish or other animals consumed by humans. …
Women pass down cooking traditions, teaching love, history and faith with dashes of salt
… Odalis Garcia Gorra … When I was 8, I owned a Barbie cookbook. Inside the plastic fuchsia pink pages were careful instructions on how to make anything from brownies to …
EarthBeat Weekly: 2 years after the Amazon Synod, are we any closer to ecological conversion?
… countries shift to renewable energy sources, fossil fuel companies have found a new market in plastics manufacturing, which could outpace coal-fired power plants as a source of greenhouse gas …
EarthBeat Weekly: Winds and dust remind of life's interconnectedness on Earth
… on climate change, reports Emma Farge for Reuters. The United States is one of the biggest plastic manufacturers, and also one of the biggest plastic polluters, but it trails much of the world in legislation to rein in that contamination, …
At Home in Creation: Fighting for life and clean air in Cancer Alley
… living near the factories. Rise St. James is leading opposition to an effort by the Formosa Plastic Group to build what would be one of the world's largest petrochemical complexes, … us the sacrifice zone to save the whole state," she said. "Don't use us to save the state." Of plastic pollution, she said: We need to go back to the way we were in some aspects. I know they'd …