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Ascension & Holy Trinity in Wyoming, Ohio has reduced their carbon footprint by changing their lights to LED fixtures that use 1/3 of the electricity and their new boilers move their heating from 60% to 98% efficiency. To read the entire article, click here.
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The West Shore Unitarian Universalist Church in Rocky River, Ohio, finalized a four year project of installing solar panels on their roof. There are 198 panels that are expected to produce about 20% of the church’s electricity needs. To read the entire article, click here.
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Living Earth is a resource from the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. The Ethics of Energy focuses on human’s failure to plan for future energy use.
“Keep awake therefore, for you know neither the day nor the hour.”
Matthew 25:13
To read this entire document, click here.
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GoodLands has created a map to show the Catholic Church that they have the influence and power to implement environmentally conscious property use in the United States and beyond. This map includes 92% of listed Catholic-affiliate properties in the Official Catholic Directory from 2015. When you click on a point on the map, you can learn about the property and its surrounding land use and habitat. To view the map, click here.
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GoodLands is an organization that provides information, insights, and implementation tools for the Catholic Church to promote caring for creation, serving the poor, and improving the state of the world. Their main goal is to help the Church develop a deeper geospatial understanding of itself and to use this towards the Church’s mission to care for all creation. They are working towards a vision where Catholic conservation and sustainability can become the largest non-governmental global network of its kind, comparable to Catholic healthcare and Catholic education. To view their entire website, click here.
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Catholic Covenant Energies is a new program meant to reduce energy use in Catholic owned buildings. There are three key components to the program: free and low-cost incentives, which works with local utility companies, retrofit program, which provides financing assistance, and a teachable moment, which highlights Catholic teaching on caring for creation. To read the entire document, click here.
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Creation Justice Ministries has created a fact sheet on the ethics of energy and coal leasing on public lands. It offers facts on decisions that have been made in coal leasing and what faith groups are doing. To read this fact sheet, click here.
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The New Community Project produced this lifestyle assessment tool that can be used to calculate a person’s ecological footprint. To read more and calculate your own ecological footprint, click here.
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Turn Down the Heat is a printable pamphlet offered by the New Community Project. It focuses on explaining all things that should be known and done about global warming. To read more or download and print this pamphlet, click here.
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By the end of May, The Diocese of Southern Ohio will have all of their buildings powered by 100% renewable energy. These buildings include Procter Center, Diocesan House, Gabriel’s Place, and the Latino Ministry Center in Forest Park. The diocese will be saving over $1,400 annually along with reducing their carbon footprint. To read more about the Diocese of Southern Ohio and their work, click here. To read about how to do something similar to this, click here.