Stewardship
Nearly 55% of water usage in the Denver metro goes directly to watering lawns. To wean residents from this irresponsible practice, our city offers grants to homeowners interested in reducing their lawns. I applied for this (free plants) and was delighted to learn that we qualified. Especially on the heels of our construction project that […]
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Stewardship is something I write a great deal about as a bee keeper, an environmentalist, and a Catholic, because on principle, it is a responsibility and good practice. Living simply (financially) is also very much a part of how we do what we do in a one income home while employed by a non-profit. Interestingly […]
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As we continue to delve into this theme of Catholic Social Teaching, I want to point out several Scriptural references to help lay the framework for the understanding that stewardship is a hallmark of our identity not just as Catholics (as Catholic Social Teaching could imply), but as children of God
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Since Pope Francis’ encyclical Laudato Si (In Praise of Creation) was published in 2015, there has been renewed energy around the topic of our very real responsibility to take a vested interest in the welfare of our planet–and all who depend upon its resources. It has sparked more than a little controversy
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Day 31! I have been so encouraged as I have dug into this #green31 challenge to find practical, important ways to incorporate global thinking (world-saving, as I refer to it some days) into daily practice. I have to say it’s empowering when I look at a list of 31 different ways–many of which I […]
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Upon inquiring about the process of washing her ziplock bags, one of the sweetest Franciscans I ever met asked me, sarcastically, how else I hoped to get to heaven? And she’s right, I think–maybe not about bag washing as salvific, but as… penitential. There is something penitential about washing these bags which can be so […]
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Last winter we had a washer/dryer maintenance man out to our house about four times before we realized that we had a sneakily-wedged Elsa sock stuck in our washer’s drain. Over the course of those visits, I spent some time talking with the man disassembling our washing machine. I learned a handful of really useful […]
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Perhaps the most mundane and efficient way to reduce waste, is not to pick it up in the first place. Plastic bags accompany nearly every shopping trip we take–some stores who take their work especially seriously, will double bag all of your bags. Leaving you with a quickly-mulitiplying load of bags that aren’t good for […]
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Man, is this a challenge pointed at me! Admittedly this whole #green31 project was inspired in part to assuage my own guilt for driving (& not a hybrid) everywhere and anywhere I need to go. I do try to give myself at least a day a week where (other than school) I’m not going anywhere. […]
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Who doesn’t love to read labels?! Right. The good news is that companies who produce their food/clothing/products ethically tend not to make it hard for you to see that. It’s generally loud, proud and stamped on the front for the world to see. Which also means, if you’re struggling to find any indication of the […]
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