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Climate Justice
What to do about global plastic pollution?
I’m not sure about you, but when I grew up in the 1960s there were not many single-use plastics in our everyday lives. To me it makes no sense whatsoever to make something that I’m going to use for a…
Responding to Earth’s cry
The Loretto Community Carbon Reduction Fund helps to re-green, decrease harm to Earth If you get a cut or wound on your body, are you not going to care for it? Mother Earth has some wounds, too … that’s why…
Loretto Members Worldwide Respond to Climate Change Crisis
Climate change is a global problem with grave implications: environmental, social, economic, political and for the distribution of goods. It represents one of the principal challenges facing humanity in our day. Its worst impact will probably be felt by developing…
Loretto Members Respond to Climate Change Questions
This week we asked our members abroad the following questions: How does climate change affect you and the people with whom you work? What do you wish people in the U.S. and other Western countries would understand about your daily…
Unseen Costs of Looking Nice
I start with a confession: I am the opposite of a clothes horse. I once thought of joining the military just so I would not have to think about what to wear. I hate shopping. But my work required me to…
New Name, Same Game: The Loretto Carbon Reduction Fund
Written by the Loretto Carbon Reduction Fund Committee: Beth Blissman, Susan Classen, Becky Coakley, Roberta Hudlow, Jessie Rathburn, Michele Stimac The Tree Fund was first established in 2019 in honor of Anthony Mary Sartorius, then renamed the Loretto Carbon Offset…
The Loretto Carbon Offset Fund Supports an Urban Farmer
Vel Scott is originally from the Mississippi Delta and grew up eating farm-fresh food every day. She’s now an educator, urban farmer, entrepreneur and wise elder sharing knowledge about healthy eating in Cleveland, Ohio. Vel’s Purple Oasis is a community-based…
Ministry Grant Allocations December 2020
By Denise Ann Clifford, Barbara Roche, and Mary Margaret Murphy Amazed and grateful describe how Denise Ann Clifford, Barbara Roche, and Mary Margaret Murphy felt after reading the Ministry Grant request application for funding in December 2020. In fact, we…
Loretto Carbon Offset Fund Honors Anthony Mary
On my first visit to the Loretto Motherhouse, I discovered tree identification tags on several of the massive, ancestral trees scattered throughout the Motherhouse campus. Soon, someone put a pamphlet in my hands, “Visitor’s Guide to Loretto Motherhouse Trees.” Maidenhair,…
Loretto Earth Network Offers New Community Announcement Series
By Julie Kerber In January 2020, the Loretto Earth Network Coordinating Committee (LENCC) gathered for a face-to-face meeting to reflect, brainstorm and plan its goals for the upcoming year. One of the questions LENCC asked itself: Is LEN (Loretto Earth…