Weekly Newsletter: Feast of St. Francis Resources, Sunseed , Green Hospitals & Fundraising, Eco Club

August 12, 2011 - 9:23 PDT

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
MEDIA ADVISORY

From the Director
YOUR HELP NEEDED to Promote the Feast of St. Francis Resources

WASHINGTON, DC (August 12, 2011) - In the next few weeks, pastors and principals, directors of religious education and youth ministry, campus ministers and bishops will be receiving a postcard encouraging the Church's leaders to celebrate the Feast of St. Francis (October 4) by taking the St. Francis Pledge to Care for Creation and the Poor. The announcement includes the unveiling of new resources and tools to make it even simpler to join the thousands of Catholic individuals, families, schools, parishes and other institutions who have already taken the St. Francis Pledge.

You are strongly encouraged to connect with any of these leaders you may know. Alert them that the postcard is on the way. Encourage them to consider making the St. Francis Pledge part of their ministry to those they serve in the weeks leading up to the Feast of St. Francis and beyond. More next week. Thank you!

Story: From a Religious Community
Sunseed Eco-Education Ministries of the School Sisters of Notre Dame

"SUNSEED Eco-Education Ministries are committed to transformative change through holistic education empowering humans to live on Earth in a mutually enhancing way." This is the simple mission statement for the SUNSEED program of the School Sisters of Notre Dame (SSND). The education program is rooted in the land, and encourages all to recognize that all has come from God, that all is sacred, that all is one. SUNSEED offers opportunities for and with people of all ages, religions and backgrounds to visit SSND campuses, benefit from their program offerings, workshops, retreats, days of reflection, and prayer experiences.

From a Partner
Going green: How to find America's most environmentally responsible hospitals

Health Care Communication News recently featured an article on how to find the most environmentally sustainable health care facilities and highlighted the best of the best. Their highest honors went to St. Francis Hospital-Eastside and St. Francis Hospital-Downtown, in Greenville, SC. Both hospitals are part of the Bon Secours St. Francis Health System and members of the Catholic Health Association of the United States, a Coalition partner.

The article observes that these two hospitals received the highest honors from Practice Greenhealth in 2011 [t]hrough a strategy focused on four fronts: reduce, recycle, replenish and reuse. For example, St. Francis documented energy savings of $784,000 over the past two years and reduced water use by 8.3 million gallons. Other examples include preventing more than 2.3 tons of waste in single-use device processing, for a savings of $134,000, and using a "worm garden" to convert food waste into compost.

To learn more about how The Catholic Health Association of the United States taking environmental sustainability work seriously, visit http://www.chausa.org/Environmental_Responsibility

From a School
Environmental Club at St. Paul's Honored

The Environmental Club at St. Paul the Apostle Catholic School in Spartanburg, SC has been awarded the Outstanding School Environmental Club Award. Founded in 2006, the Club meets twice per month and is open to fourth-, fifth- and sixth-graders at St. Paul's.

Throughout the year, Club members work with faculty, parents and parish members to reduce waste, educate themselves through guest speakers and raise funds through aluminum can collection. Students in the Club also ADVOCATE among their peers and encourage them to bring refillable water bottles to school.

Last year, the Club instituted a Waste Free Lunch campaign in which classes competed to minimize the amount of waste generated a lunch and hosted an essay-writing contest on environmental sustainability. The Environmental Club also spent time researching recyclable container options to replace Styrofoam, hosting an eco-scavenger hunt, and tending a garden.

Learn more about the work of the Environmental Club at St. Paul the Apostle Catholic School - and get ideas for your own school - here.

You can also find resources from the Coalition to use at your school here.

International Voices
Environmental Progress in Developing Nations?

In a very thoughtful article for Catholic Sentinel, official publication of the Archdiocese of Portland, OR, Liz Quirin discusses the challenges of fostering environmental sustainability in developing countries where the immediate challenges of meeting basic needs can leave little time for future considerations about the environment.

Despite these challenges, she observes that many governments, NGOs and parishes are working to create ecological policies and educate communities about the need to protect the environment. Ms. Quirin also offers suggestions about how people in wealthy countries can contribute to a stronger ethic of environmental responsibility worldwide:

Instead of condemning people for their unfriendly environmental practices, we as a church and as people living in a developed nation need to make every effort to sensitize and educate about "better practices," ways of preserving and protecting our fragile environment as those in developing nations go about the business of trying to stay alive in sometimes hostile and difficult situations.

We need to find ways to integrate environmental strategies into their present realities instead of trying to change their lives and make them more like ours. It shouldn't be "my way or the highway," but what we can do together to keep ourselves and our planet safe and viable for future generations.

Resource
Greener Fundraising

The Benedictine Monks of St. Meinrad's Archabbey in Indiana have a great, green fundraising project for schools, youth groups and others seeking to make a difference and make some money. Snail's Pace paper products are printed with soy-based inks on paper that is 100% post-consumer fiber and manufactured with wind power.

Check out their "All for the Church" Fundraising products (200 items including note cards, wrapping paper, and gift bags) are items that parents, friends and supporters of your school, youth group or parish will feel good about: all of their money benefits the Catholic Church. Up to 50% of all proceeds go to the group with the rest supporting the good works of St. Meinrad Archabbey. Go to www.snailspacefundraising.com to learn more.

Contact

Catholic Coalition on Climate Change
http://org2.democracyinaction.org/o/5256/t/0/blastContent.jsp?email_blast_KEY=1173680
DC, 20039 US
Dan DiLeo - Project Manager,

Keywords

climate, climate change, environment, ecology, stewardship, green, Spanish, Espanol, resources

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