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These are the latest items about events, initiatives and stories that involve our entire international community.
Eco-Challenge: Prioritize plastic pollution prevention
This month’s Eco-Challenge emphasizes learning more about the impact that plastic pollution is having on our health and our planet. Hopefully, you will join our efforts in making our world more plastic-free.
Connecting with Younger Generations
Bridging generational gaps can be a challenge, but it is one that sisters from all over the congregation have taken on. Here are just a few examples of how our sisters are connecting with younger generations.
Eco-Challenge: Retire your dryer
Drying clothes in the sun can have a lot of benefits over using a clothes dryer. Let’s take a look at the top five reasons to dry your clothes outside in the sun.
Eco-Challenge: Pack your own snack
Plastic packaging used for snacks contributes significantly to pollution. Most snack packaging is single-use, meaning it’s disposed of after a single serving and usually goes straight to a landfill.
Eco-Challenge: Eat less red meat for a greener planet
A significant number of our sisters and charism partners have already committed to eating less red meat. If that was true, why are we doing this again?
Eco-Challenge: Brew Change
Ditch single-use coffee and tea cups for good. The average single-use coffee cup is used for just 15 minutes but wreaks havoc on our Earth for decades!
Eco-Challenge: Bars not bottles
There are a plethora of eco-friendly soaps, shampoos and conditioners available in bar form with zero plastic packaging.
Visiting the Log Church
While in St. Louis for the Kakehashi gathering, some sisters had the opportunity to visit the Holy Family Catholic Church in Cahokia, Illinois. The log church that stands there is the same church that the first Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet worked, ministered and prayed in when they arrived in America.
Eco-Challenge: Pick sustainable paper products
Tissue products such as toilet paper, paper towels, paper napkins and facial tissue are found in many households. They are cheap and convenient. These products are manufactured from trees that have been growing for centuries and are turned into items that we use for seconds before we throw them away.