The Diocesan Dialogue
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April 2008

Green Vocation

Our "Green Team" continues to meet to determine ways we can save energy and the earth's resources. The ministry is also passing along every day tips we all can incorporate in our lives. A group of tips is found in The Green Book written by Elizabeth Rogers and Thomas Kostigen and published by Three Rivers Press. If we don't ask for ATM receipts (which normally go straight to the landfill), we could save the amount of paper that would stretch two billion feet in length and circle the equator fifteen times. The Green Book also mentions there is a simple way we could save more water than is consumed everyday in New York City. It would be the simple act of turning off the tap when we brush our teeth. We waste around five gallons of water a day by letting the tap pour water down the drain.

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