The Jesuit university has achieved carbon neutrality through energy efficiency and also through the financial support of reforestation projects and other green initiatives around the world.
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African floods ‘wiped out entire villages’ after cyclone, says Jesuit
A Jesuit from the Zimbabwe-Mozambique province has said that the recent cyclone that hit Africa has “wiped out entire villages”; 2 million people have been affected and more than 700 people have been killed by the storm.
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Bishops say EPA plan to roll back pollution rule would harm the unborn
The bishops argued in a March 22 statement that the Mercury and Air Toxics Standards, or MATS, are needed to protect pregnant women as well.
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Perilous times on the way for kids hit by Cyclone Idai
According to estimates, 900,000 children have been orphaned or separated from their families as a result of Cyclone Idai, which has devastated the African countries of Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Malawi.
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Faith and generosity sustain flood victims in Omaha Archdiocese
Through prayer and acts of generosity, Catholics throughout the diocese of Omaha, Neb. are helping their neighbors and families deal with the historic floodwaters that have ravaged the state.
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Historic flooding in Midwest threatening lives, destroying livelihoods
The chairman of the U.S. bishops’ domestic policy committee late March 19 expressed grief over the lives and livelihoods lost and threatened by the historic flooding in the Midwest and offered prayers for recovery.
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As cyclone slams Africa, churches and aid agencies coordinate response
Two boys at a Catholic boarding school in Zimbabwe are among the more than 300 people killed in the aftermath of a cyclone that slammed into Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Malawi in mid-March.
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Fear of the future unites Yellow Vests and climate change protesters
France’s Yellow Vest movement, sparked by a fuel tax increase, wants to be heard by the government. So do the students protesting climate change. The church says that both can find hope in “Laudato Si’.”
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The Editors: The Green New Deal should be improved, not mocked
While it is clear that not everything in the Green New Deal is realistically achievable, what is less realistic still is to dismiss it out of hand in order to continue the pretense that climate change can be ignored.
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Teens school U.K. leaders on climate change
We are now relying on our children to act where we have failed, for their futures and that of their offspring.