Green Initiative Articles

March 2010

March 7 - LENTEN CARBON FAST 2010

4 billion trees per year are cut down for paper,That's 10 million trees per day.This week, resolve to save trees by eliminating junk mail from your life. Millions of trees are chopped down each year for junk mail.

• Stop unwanted catalogs at CatalogChoice.org

• Stop catalogs and other junk mail at DMAchoice.org

• Hire a service to do the canceling for you:  41pounds.org

Top two above are free services. Tested and declared "easy" by GreenTeam member. Be patient for results; allow 30-90 days to take effect.

Archdiocese of Washington, adapted from "Tearfund" and other sources; also http://www.GreenMyChurch.com; www.GreenMyChurch.com; www.ecology.com/features/paperchase/

 

   

March 15 - LENTEN CARBON FAST 2010

In 1987, Pope John Paul II said, "The dominion granted to [humans] by the Creator is not an absolute power, nor can one speak of a freedom to 'use and misuse,' or to dispose of things as one pleases."  The Resurrection Green Team invites you to look around curbsides and melted-snowdrift areas in Dubuque: cigarette butts, cans, discarded plastic bottles, plastic

bags, just lots of yucky litter!  On your next walk, take a plastic bag, lean down (good for the waistline) and pick up at least 5 pieces of litter. Do this everyday for a week and your neighborhood will begin to look cleaner and greener. Bright idea: be sure to recycle some items when you get home, e.g., cans and plastic bags. And never "dispose of things" as litter.

Environmental Stewardship Committee

 

March 21 - LENTEN CARBON FAST 2010

In 1987, Pope John Paul II said, "The dominion granted to [humans] by the Creator is not an absolute power, nor can one speak of a freedom to 'use and misuse,' or to dispose of things as one pleases."  The Resurrection Green Team invites you to look around curbsides and melted-snowdrift areas in Dubuque: cigarette butts, cans, discarded plastic bottles, plastic bags, just lots of yucky litter!  On your next walk, take a plastic bag, lean down (good for the waistline) and pick up at least 5 pieces of litter. Do this everyday for a week and your neighborhood will begin to look cleaner and greener. Bright idea: be sure to recycle some items when you get home, e.g., cans and plastic bags. And never "dispose of things" as litter.

Environmental Stewardship Committee

 

March 28 - LENTEN CARBON FAST 2010

On this Palm Sunday, take some time to reflect on the green activities that you have practiced this Lent and how they've brought you into greater harmony with the Earth and all life. Pope Benedict has said, "Our environment is God's gift to everyone, and in our use of it we have a responsibility towards the poor, towards future generations and towards humanity as a whole."   

Archdiocese of Washington, adapted from "Tearfund;"   http://www.GreenMyChurch.com/

(Pope Benedict XVI, Caritas in Veritate, 2009)