Eco-Challenge: Move beyond beef
In January, ask yourself: How might altering my red meat meal choices lead to improving the environment?
Eco-Challenge: Have yourself an eco-friendly Christmas
How environmentally friendly is your Christmas going to be this year? Here are a few ideas to help you make interesting alternative choices.
Sisters decry homophobic and transphobic shooting in Colorado Springs
As members of the U.S. Federation of Sisters of St. Joseph, we echo their statement in the wake of the shooting at Club Q in Colorado Springs, Colorado on November 19.
My Mexicali Border Experience Changed My Life
My experience at the shelter in Mexicali, Mexico has changed my life. I am now looking at everything and everyone with different eyes. The experience was not anything I had expected! I thought there would be a building surrounded with a yard where the children could play and we would paint in small groups. Instead, we arrived at a crowded shelter with 215 immigrants—110 adults and 105 children.
Eco-Challenge: Practice gratitude
In this season of Thanksgiving, may we consider ways to give thanks for the creation around us. May we practice gratitude for the abundance given to us in the created world.
A bridge from the U.S. to Kenya
Growing Community Roots invests directly in water catchment systems that provide safe water for drinking and bathing, fencing for community gardens that ensure children have nutritious meals at school and tree farms that help address the critical deforestation problem that exists in Homa Bay.
Eco-Challenge: Purchase paper products responsibly
Considering your own paper product usage, what might you change right now? Think about which products you could use less of, use a different quality or even do without.
Short Stories from the Border
I said to the 8-year-old “how lucky she was to have him help her” His response was “Well someone has to do it so I guess it’s me.” What a parent won’t do to save their children.
Help us plant trees in Tacna, Peru
The Sisters of St Joseph of Carondelet in collaboration with the Fe y Alegría (Faith and Joy) School in Tacna, Peru have created a tree-planting program in this desert area: Trees for Tacna.
Eco-Challenge: Engage in the Season of Creation
During this Season of Creation, there will be many opportunities to choose outward manifestations of your inner ecological conversion.