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:
From the church:
Our Lady of Waste Management: Resources for going green
Article Environment Parish Life
Looking to apply your faith to care for creation? Here are some resources for doing so:
From the church:
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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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The sin of mountaintop removal
Article Environment
"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.
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Clothesline rebels
Article Environment
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.
In the old days all the cool guys and gals who wanted to show up “the man” devoted a lot of their creative geekiness to figuring out ways to get “off the grid,” devising Rube Goldberg-ish mechanicals and homemade micro-tech geared to living outside the nation’s energy infrastructure. It was laudable self-reliance—sometimes run amok—but it belongs to another age.
Working for the common grid
Article Environment Social Justice
Reducing our collective carbon footprint can be as easy as plugging in.
In the old days all the cool guys and gals who wanted to show up “the man” devoted a lot of their creative geekiness to figuring out ways to get “off the grid,” devising Rube Goldberg-ish mechanicals and homemade micro-tech geared to living outside the nation’s energy infrastructure. It was laudable self-reliance—sometimes run amok—but it belongs to another age.
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.
How to go green
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Tips and suggestions for parishes planning to prioritize the environment.
1. Schedule a Bike- or Walk-to-Church Sunday.
2. Offer pitchers of water instead of bottles at parish meetings and explain why plastic bottles aren’t good for the environment.
3. Serve fair-trade coffee and tea (in mugs instead of foam cups) after Mass, again with signs explaining why.
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