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Drying Clothes
Save energy by air drying your clothes.
A Greener Christmas
Alternatives to wrapping paper at Christmas
Making green choices when it comes to textiles
The Mother Earth Committee has some thoughts as a follow-up to the Greenspot done last year on ethical apparel. In that Greenspot Green America’s hierarchy of choices in getting clothes is as follows:Reduce and Reuse:1. Buy less clothing overall. When you’re considering a clothing purchase, ask yourself whether you really need the item.2. Buying used clothing at consignment boutiques, thrift stores, and charity shops keeps old items out of the landfill, conserves resources, and helps you save money. You can…
Leaves = Nature’s gift to the earth
Another way to handle leaves.
Ideas for saving energy
Can a whole neighborhood use the same garbage company?
Teaching Our children The truth
Curious children and thoughtful teachers, parents, and grandparents can use books to help children to become leaders who do better than their forebears.
Green spot follow up
In our August green spot we talked about Eco Park. I recently went there to check it out. I found it very well organized and easy to navigate through. I hate to throw things out that cannot be recycled so I had various items accumulating in my basement that Eco Park accepted (large pieces of styrofoam from packaging, paint cans, empty prescription containers, etc.) I’m embarrassed to admit how long I had these things gathering in my basement but it…
Three ideas for reducing your use of plastics
Looking for ways to reduce your plastic usage? Here are some ideas.
The Future of Four
I spent the Memorial Day weekend celebrating my grandson’s 14th birthday, with five other 14-year-old boys who have been his friends since Kindergarten. These five young men were modeling the importance of maintaining lasting connections, as they shared their future hopes and dreams with me to become professional athletes, lawyers, doctors, entrepreneurs and a veterinarian. Four out of the five were African American and so I found myself quietly praying that they all live long enough to fulfill those dreams, as…
Impossible To Be Held Back
April 5 Readings – Acts 2:14, 22-33; Mt 28:8-15 OK, OK, I know that Easter was yesterday and that the blog was supposed to end. But two things. First, I will really miss writing a daily blog and secondly, Easter Monday is a thing. Growing up Catholic (and in a strong ethnic French-Canadian church), we celebrated Easter Monday as a part of the Easter experience, and in many countries it is actually a holiday. So here’s one last reflection as…
Practice Resurrection
April 3 Readings – ACTS 10:34A, 37-43; COL 3:1-4; JN 20:1-9 It’s hard to believe we have reached the end of our Lenten journey together. I want to say a heartfelt THANK YOU to all of you who have been faithfully (or unfaithfully) reading this blog, commenting and offering your own insights. I have really appreciated the dialogue that this has created, and I was touched that so many of you offered your own lives, joys and challenges to me…
No Quick Fix
April 3 Readings – The readings for today are technically the “Easter Vigil” mass readings which include 7 readings, psalms, prayers, an epistle and the gospel! If you want to read all of them, please check it out at https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/040321.cfm The Easier Vigil is quite an amazing ritual and is the Christian “high holy day” and blueprint of the faith. This mass was intended to teach the faithful all they needed to know and was originally the only time of…