Creation Care Team
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MISSION
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Anchored in Laudato Si, our mission is "to inspire and mobilize the Catholic community to care for our common home and achieve climate and ecological justice."
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Would You like to Join Us Or Learn More?
By rethinking how we live and realizing the impact of our daily actions, we will be better able to care for Creation; the "wonderful gift that God has given us," in the words of Pope Francis. By joining together to live justly on Earth, our Catholic community can make a difference on the many problems our planet faces.
Would you like to JOIN US? Click Here to Register After your registration, you will receive further information as well as an invitation to our monthly meetings and be kept directly informed of all upcoming events. Together we will educate our parish and our community in order to protect and restore our Common Home. To learn more, please contact Linda at stmcreationcareteam@gmail.com
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MONTHLY MEETINGS 2022Via Zoom: 2nd Tuesday of the month, at 7:00 p.m. Join CCT to get the Zoom link.
Next meetings are: August 9th; September 13
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UPCOMING EVENTS
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Laudato Si' Animator TrainingAnimator (noun) – someone who imparts energy, vitality and spirit to others.
Sign up HERE! or go to bit.ly/JoinLSA
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COMING SOON
SACRED AIR: ENERGY & CLIMATE
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Creation Care - Laudato Si'
At its core, the environmental crisis is a moral challenge. It calls us to examine how we use and share the goods of the earth, what we pass on to future generations, and how we live in harmony with God’s creation.
On Care for Our Common Home (Laudato Si’) is the new appeal from Pope Francis addressed to “every person living on this planet” for an inclusive dialogue about how we are shaping the future of our planet. Pope Francis calls the Church and the world to acknowledge the urgency of our environmental challenges and to join him in embarking on a new path. This encyclical is written with both hope and resolve, looking to our common future with candor and humility… Read More
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free earth friendly APPs
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Ecosia
www.ecosia.org
Ecosia is a search engine that donates 80% of its profits to non- profit organizations that focus on reforestation. It considers itself a social business, is CO2 negative and claims to support full financial transparency and protect privacy of its users. It can be installed on laptops, phones, tablets and other devices that have access to the internet. Instead of advertising dollars going to Google, Yahoo or other, why not direct that money toward planting trees. -
Recycle ATX
www.austintexas.gov/recycling
Everything you need to know about your residential refuse collection in Austin. Need to know what day trash is picked up? Need to know if an item goes into recycle, compost or trash? It's all here.
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Plastic Score
www.plasticscore.co
PlasticScore is a crowdsourced zero waste rating for restaurants. They fund the recovery of plastic waste for every sustainability review, and use the data to help restaurants improve. When downloading the app, be sure to put in the code PRP for the local non-profit, Plastic Reduction Project, who we are working with. PRP will then receive the info. for the Austin area and be able to provide feedback to the local restaurants. Local AUSTIN area restaurant include those in Cedar Park, Round Rock, Leander, etc.
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Buy Nothing
https://www.buynothing.live/
"A Gift Economy's real wealth is the people involved and the web of connections that form to support them." Also an app where you can find things locally as well as nationally that people are giving away. -
Freecycle
https://trashnothing.com/beta/
Do you have something you think no one wants? Take a look on this app and post your item there; you may find someone who sees your trash as treasure. You may even find something for yourself.
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