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California's Plastic Revolution

7/14/2019

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 From the Story of Stuff Project
Within 90 days, the State of California could pass legislation setting the bar on cutting plastic pollution 
with global implications for the way companies package their products.

Watch the video (2:24 min) to learn more and share it across your social media networks to help build momentum and set the story straight. [We all need to think this way].
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Plastic out, pasta in: Straw-Ghetti, mugs part of green dividend

6/29/2019

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by AGNIESZKA RUCK, BC. Catholic
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Owners of a start-up company in Coquitlam have discovered cutting down on plastic isn’t just good for the environment; it can directly help the poor and homeless, too.
Vanessa Brascia and Cory Melville officially opened Straw-Ghetti in February. Their company imports Italian pasta, cuts it to size, and sells it as an eco-friendly substitute for plastic straws. The pasta leaves no residue and lasts longer in a drink than other plastic straw alternatives.
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Climate change causes Islands to disappear

5/15/2019

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May 15, 2019 - #60MinutesAustralia
With the world heating up, drastic rises in sea level mean whole islands are literally disappearing. It’s an extraordinary sight, and proof positive we must do more, right now.
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UPDATE: With death of Jean Vanier, Catholicism loses a living saint

5/7/2019

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Jean Vanier, who was 90, died from cancer Tuesday morning in a facility in Paris run by the L’Arche community that he founded in 1964.

Jean Vanier was a spiritual giant. Those who lived and worked with him spoke of his almost palpable holiness; many considered him a living saint. He was unmoved by such accolades. Profoundly humble, what he longed for was to help people to know and live with Jesus – whom he spoke of as one might of a close friend – and to do so through encounters with the poorest and weakest in society, in particular those with mental handicaps.     

He spent his whole life giving hope to suffering people: "The message of the Gospel, he said, is to become men and women of compassion. If you become a man or a woman of compassion, you will be like Jesus".        
 - See Vatican News story     and       Obituary at the Tablet
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Founder of L’Arche Community goes into hospice care

4/20/2019

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His prayer, “Give us attentive hearts,” is recited daily in the homes of L’Arche:

O Mary, give us attentive,
humble and gentle hearts
to welcome with tenderness and compassion
all the poor you send to us.
Give us hearts full of mercy
to love them, to serve them,
to extinguish all discord
and to see in our suffering and broken brothers
the presence of the living Jesus.
Lord, bless us with the hands of your poor.
Lord, smile at us in the eyes of your poor.
Lord, you receive us one day
in the happy company of your poor.
Amen!
The 90-year-old founder of L’Arche Community and Faith and Light, Jean Vanier, has entered into the stage of receiving palliative care, Aleteia learned this week.
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