For 25 years, religious congregations with ties to the Hudson River Valley have worked to protect the valley's ecological integrity. Individual congregations have preserved parts of their lands through easements; they also have served on a coalition that advocates for the valley.
This body of water, which awakened my passion for sustainability, is choked by toxic algae blooms. Will my grandchildren play in her waters as I once did?
For 25 years, religious congregations with ties to the Hudson River Valley have worked to protect the valley's ecological integrity. Individual congregations have preserved parts of their lands through easements; they also have served on a coalition that advocates for the valley.
If prices of goods and services included their real environmental and social costs, would that turn our 'throwaway culture' into one that reduces, reuses and repairs?
COP26, the U.N. climate change summit, is set to begin in 17 days. According to Catholics who will be at the conference, there are many reasons why people of faith should pay attention to the proceedings.
At the community Deepalaya ("house of light"), founded in 2006 in Khandwa, Madhya Pradesh, India, the Medical Mission Sisters cultivate food, welcome all creatures (except mosquitos) and care for Mother Earth.
Many in the "trashing" community are motivated by the sense that valuable things are ending up in residential and commercial garbage where they don't belong — and, for the sake of the planet, that ought to change.
Fr. Thomas Reese: Pope Francis should appoint Greta Thunberg to the Vatican delegation to COP26 with full diplomatic credentials so she can go anywhere, attend any meeting and speak out for the children of the world.
