Don't be crude: End our oil addiction
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Take the next exit: Avoid an economic traffic jam
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When it comes to economic growth, the express lanes are closed.
Problem children: Making trouble for Mother Earth
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Mother Earth can’t take much more of her human offspring’s hell-raising.
Problem children: Making trouble for Mother Earth
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Mother Earth can’t take much more of her human offspring’s hell-raising.
Our Lady of Waste Management: Resources for going green
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Looking to apply your faith to care for creation? Here are some resources for doing so:
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The sin of mountaintop removal
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"You can't put a mountain back. Do you think you can do a better job than God?"
-- from Leveling Appalachia, a video from Yale's environmental service, e360.
Five hundred mountains in Appalachia are gone forever.
Glenmary Father John Rausch has little patience with those who excuse this kind of environmental destruction in favor of short-term jobs. "It's a false dichotomy," he says. "The coal industry is actually in business to put miners out of a job."
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Clothesline rebels
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Alexander Lee and other Project Laundry List members don't believe that an energy guzzler like a clothes dryer plays any role in being a good neighbor. They're fighting for the right for all Americans to dry laundry outdoors--including those living in home-owners associations and under other covenants that forbid it. "It's about not trusting your neighbor to do the right thing," says Lee, a parishioner at Sacred Heart in Concord, New Hampshire.
Working for the common grid
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Reducing our collective carbon footprint can be as easy as plugging in.
Why should parishes go green?
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Five reasons Catholic communities should care about cleaning up the environment.
1. You don't have to believe in climate change to believe in its solution. Energy conservation and alternative energy use mean healthier children, improved national security, and lower heating and cooling bills for families and parishes. It's a "no regrets" strategy.
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