energy
-
Resolve to Reduce Energy Usage
January is the month of New Year’s resolutions. Why not make a resolution that can improve yourself while also lowering your carbon footprint? For our second week of resolutions, I thought that I would talk about energy usage. Throughout our… Continue reading
-
Fast from Unnecessary Energy Usage
The Global Catholic Climate Movement (catholicclimatemovement.global) has released its Lenten Calendar 2021 that is focused on concrete actions we can take each week to improve the planet as well as ourselves. Lent is a time of preparation for Easter and… Continue reading
-
Our Moral Imperative
Pope Francis begins his TED Coundown talk with: The world is shaken by the crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, which highlights another global challenge: the socio-environmental crisis. And this requires us, all of us, to face a choice. The… Continue reading
-
The Problem with Plastic
In Chapter Six of Laudato Si, Pope Francis talks about avoiding plastic: Education in environmental responsibility can encourage ways of acting which directly and significantly affect the world around us, such as avoiding the use of plastic… Many aspects of… Continue reading
-
It’s time to stop the energy vampires
In chapter three of Laudato Si, Pope Francis writes of the false notion that an infinite quantity of energy and resources are available It is better to conserve energy so that we may stretch this finite supply. And what is… Continue reading
Saint Francis of Assisi Ministry 