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Authors / Marya Grathwohl
An Oldenburg Franciscan Sister since 1963, Marya Grathwohl lived for more than 30 years in African American, Crow and Northern Cheyenne communities, as teacher, principal and pastoral minister. While on her congregation’s leadership team, she initiated the revitalization of her community’s farm in Indiana, which employs integrated natural farming methods with vegetable gardens, chickens and…
NCR contributor on five years since Katrina
… recovery amid a ghost town of empty houses. The brightest spot is a cluster of pastel homes, solar powered and of cutting-edge architectural design, sponsored by Brad Pitt's Make It Right …
Dan Dick and me
… efforts became popular. Daniel was a practical idealist who attended with care to his various solar powered systems, his several wood stoves, the raveling and unraveling of his unusual, … would have the children know that crickets, too, sing psalms and give God praise and that the solar electricity meters spin in holy song too. One wonders at such a one who threaded the gift …
The desert is a school of peace
… a gray-brown ridge of stony mountains. I'm off the grid; I get power when I can from fickle solar panels. And I have no drinking water except what can be brought up from stores in nearby …
Students vote in green fees
… to tax themselves $2.50 per quarter for four years and using the proceeds in part to install solar panels on the student union bulding. The story quotes student Vicky Truong, 21, who was active in the campaign to pass the green fee" “To us, [the solar panels] are more of a symbol. Students are able to see it and associate our initiative with …
Diocese installs solar panels at schools, cemetery
… San Jose, Calif., diocese that has made green efforts a top priority, literally, by installing solar panels on the rooftops of five of its Catholic elementary schools. Solar panels also were installed this year at Gate of Heaven diocesan cemetery. As of this …
Catholics take lead in sustainability
… gas emissions analysis for Baltimore-based Catholic Relief Services. The diocese is promoting solar-powered parishes to reduce their carbon footprints. Currently, five San Jose parishes are participating. Solar panels are being placed wherever parishes have space for the panels to effectively gather …
Go Green: Steps to a greener parish
… neutral.” A growing number of sources offer electricity from renewable energy products such as solar arrays or wind farms that generate electricity without carbon emissions or pollution. See …
April 12, St. Teresa de Jes˙s \"de los Andes\"
… saint was born in Santiago on July 13, 1900, to Miguel Fernandez Jarequamada and Lucia Solar Armstrong, the fifth of their seven children. She was baptized Juana Enriqueta Josephina de …
Hilton fund honored for support of women religious
… of maternal and child health; literacy and education; HIV/AIDS education; agricultural and solar projects; and aid to refugees, immigrants and orphans. According to a news release, the …
Morning Briefing
… Promotes Sainthood for Nation’s First African-American Priest … Catholic Schools Go Solar … Catholic High Schools Consider Drug Testing … Allegations Against New Orleans Priest …
We have everything we need: Reclaiming control of education
… natural living and sustainability in the city: rooftop gardening, rainwater harvesting, and solar cooking. We also went around to different hotels and did a 'green leaf rating' survey to …