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Sally kohn: Does our participation revere the earth or is it characterized by an addictive over-consumption? she says the u.s. Uses 25% of the world's oil supply and 40% of world's gasoline. We can make a real environmental difference by using energy more efficiently, she says.
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January 2004 Resolutions to Action Leadership Conference of Women Religious
Sally kohn: Does our participation revere the earth or is it characterized by an addictive over-consumption? she says the u.s. Uses 25% of the world's oil supply and 40% of world's gasoline. We can make a real environmental difference by using energy more efficiently, she says.
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Sally kohn: Does our participation revere the earth or is it characterized by an addictive over-consumption? she says the u.s. Uses 25% of the world's oil supply and 40% of world's gasoline. We can make a real environmental difference by using energy more efficiently, she says.
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To Action LCWR Global Concerns Committee Volume 13, Number 1 January 2004
Reverencing the Earth
by Intercommunity Environmental Council Region 10 Members Janet Kuciejczyk, CSJ; Corlita Bonnarens, RSM; Carol Reeb, SSND Sacred is the call, awesome indeed the entrustment. Tending the holy. Tending the holy. How do we continue to move beyond these lyrics to a change in our patterns of action? The August 2003 LCWR national assembly grounded us in the reality of the sacred enterprise in which we exist not as dominators of cre- ation but as participants in a cosmic story. Does our participation reverence the earth or is it characterized by an addictive over-consumption, which depletes Earths non-renewable resources?
carbon dioxide -- the primary range without refueling. The Toyota
EXPERIENCE global warming gas -- in the Prius, like other hybrids, is powered We know that: atmosphere than a century ago. by a downsized gasoline engine The United States has less than assisted by an electric motor with a 5 % of the worlds population battery that is charged by the gas SOCIAL ANALYSIS engine and by brake friction. The yet uses 25% of the worlds oil supply and 40% of the worlds Prius emits relatively low amounts gasoline. As a nation we are driven by of carbon monoxide and other smog Oil and gas production are non- over-consumption of energy and forming gases. Its emissions of renewable fossil fuels often resources. The present course of carbon dioxide are about half that of found in foreign countries. overwhelming poverty of the major- Much of the 8 billion barrels of ity of the planets inhabitants and Resolutions to Action is an occasional oil imported annually fuels our excessive consumption by the publication of the Global Concerns vehicles. minority bodes an unsustainable Committee of the Leadership Conference of Due to emissions produced by Women Religious (LCWR). Members of the planetary future. We can make a real committee are: Mary Brigid Clingman, OP; power plants that generate the environmental difference just by Toni Harris, OP; Barbara Moore, CSJ; Peggy electricity used to run our using energy more efficiently and by Nolan, BVM; Mary Catherine Rabbitt, SL; Peggy Sause, OP; Aline Marie Steuer, CSC; homes plus home emissions, an making choices for cleaner energy. and Marie Lucey, OSF, staff. Please address average house releases 22,000 Hybrid vehicles represent one such correspondence to: pounds of carbon dioxide choice. The Toyota Prius, for ex- LCWR 8808 Cameron Street annually. ample, gets 55 miles per gallon in Silver Spring, MD 20910 The worlds leading climate combined city and highway driving 301-588-4955 scientists have warned that and accelerates from zero to 60 mph fax: 301-587-4575 mlucey@lcwr.org there is now 30 percent more in 10 seconds with a 650 mile driving the average passenger vehicle. body which includes the living and ACTION Many other hybrids have compa- non-living aspects of creation. We rable statistics. recognize that we are not the only Along with transportation, ones who are Gods children but 1. The next time you purchase a electricity generation is the largest that every other person on the car, choose one with the lowest source of the air pollutants that planet is our sister and brother and emissions and the highest fuel harm human health, damage that we are called to love them as economy that can meet your ecosystems and threaten the stabil- God loves them. driving needs. Automakers ity of our climate. Ten to 13 % of the The Native American wisdom need a strong signal that con- average homes electric costs can be also tells us In our way of life, in sumers care about air pollution controlled with the flip of a switch. our government, with every deci- and global warming. Using an energy efficient rather than sion we make, we always keep in 2. Tell automakers that you want a standard light bulb can, over its mind the Seventh Generation to more clean-vehicle options by lifetime, reduce emissions of carbon come. Its our job to see that the writing them directly or signing dioxide by 1300 pounds. Replacing people coming ahead, the genera- the Clean Car Pledge at an old refrigerator with a new, tions still un-born have a world no www.cleancarpledge.org. efficient model can, over its lifespan, worse than ours -- and hopefully 3. If possible choose to purchase a reduce emissions of carbon dioxide better. When we walk upon Mother hybrid vehicle that emits Super by nearly 11,000 pounds. Earth we always plant our feet Ultra Low emissions and that carefully because we know the faces gets up to 52 mpg. of our future generation are looking 4. If appliances are old, replace REFLECTION up at us from beneath the ground. them as you can with new We never forget them. (Oren Lyons, energy-efficient models. Many religious traditions 5. Replace incandescent light bulbs Faith keeper of the Turtle Clan of the provide motivation and rationale for with energy-efficient compact Onondaga Nation) changing our patterns of behavior so fluorescents. If this emerging vision is to be as to be more earth reverencing. sustainable we need to make the Our Christian tradition reminds us spiritual journey as well as the that we are not simply for ourselves practical adjustments to make it real. but that we are part of one body, a
In our way of life, in our government,
with every decision we make, we always keep in mind the Seventh Generation to come. Its our job to see that the people coming ahead, the generations still un-born have a world no worse than ours -- and hopefully better. When we walk upon Mother Earth we always plant our feet carefully because we know the faces of our future generation are looking up at us from beneath the ground. We never forget them.