Work green, live green
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
By Megan Sweas
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In England, it’s the first annual Green Office Week, a project speared by office supply company Avery. I don’t know why it’s not Green Office Week in the United States, too, but Avery’s UK site has some helpful hints if you want to make your workplace a little more eco-friendly.
It’s one thing to be green at home, but most of us spend a lot of time—and probably use more paper and energy—at work. I definitely have some guilt working at a magazine, though we have tried to cut down on our use of paper here at U.S. Catholic by doing more on our computers.
If you work at a religious organization like me, you also may feel that God is calling you to care for creation as you do God’s work. That’s how these Episcopal nuns feel. Read about and be inspired by their efforts to live green—building a new convent, getting rid of their van and signing up for Zip Car, and gardening and eating vegan, all in the middle of New York City.
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By Karen Allanach (not verified) on Monday, March 9, 2009It is very inspiring that the Episcopal nuns embrace a vegan diet as part of their commitment to caring for God's creation. Each time we add meat and dairy-free alternatives to our diet, we are helping millions of animals who suffer on factory farms in the U.S. each day. Adopting a vegetarian diet also helps the Earth. According to a 2006 report by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the animal agriculture sector emits more greenhouse gases (18 percent) than cars and SUVs.
Most of the world's major religions have positions on animal welfare issues. The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops has raised concern over the treatment of factory farmed animals, stating: "Catholic teaching about stewardship of creation leads us to question certain farming practices, such as the operation of massive confined animal feeding operations. We believe that these operations should be carefully regulated and monitored so that environmental risks are minimized and animals are treated as creatures of God." The Humane Society of the United States has more information at http://www.hsus.org/religion/
Cows passing gas will lead to the end of the world!
By Jerry (not verified) on Monday, March 9, 2009The left is against the slightest regulation such as requiring the informed consent of an ultrasound before terminating the life of a human fetus, but it wants to control every other aspect of our lives. In order to accomplish this, it is necessary to manufacture a crisi about how the earth is coming to an end. Therefore we must force your children to eat ground kale rather than drink milk, raise the price of food, raise the price of energy and redistribute the wealth so the poor can eat some kale.
Al Gore's hockey stick model of anthroprogenic global waming isn't working because the earth has been cooling the last ten years. Even though the computer models of anthroprogenic global warming alarmists have failed there is no room for debate!
Count me in with those "extremists" such as the Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Meteorolgy at the Massachsetts Institure of Technolgy, Richard Lindzen, who don't think cows passing gas are contributing to the end of the world.
Had Jerry been near . . .
By Kevin Clarke on Monday, March 9, 2009the business end of a cow when the end were passing, I think he might appreciate this crisis as the udder threat it is. Here's some news about climate change skeptics, and the accepted prognosis from, well, just about everyone else in the world's climate science community.
PS: I like ground kale though it tends to make me gassy.
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