JPIC - Justice Peace Integrity of Creation - St. Mary's JC, TN

09/20/2014

http://watchdisruption.com/

The most dangerous threat the world has ever faced meets a movement whose time has come.

09/06/2014

S&P suggests focusing on education to increase national productivity. According to the report, one additional year of education in the American workforce could increase GDP by $525 billion—about a 2.4 percent boost—over the next five years. http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2014/08/income-inequality-damaging-economy-says-new-report

Standard & Poor's predicts an even slower economic recovery, thanks to the wealth gap,

09/06/2014

The countdown is on! How will you celebrate the International Day of Peace on the 21st of September?

09/01/2014

"Supporting policies and institutions that create decent jobs, pay just wages, and support family formation and stability will also honor the dignity of workers. Raising the minimum wage, more and better workforce training programs, and smarter regulations that minimize negative unintended consequences would be good places to start."
http://www.usccb.org/issues-and-action/human-life-and-dignity/labor-employment/labor-day-statement-2014.cfm

Labor Day Statement 2014

08/16/2014

More good stuff from . . .

We say: you don’t have to choose between the environment and the economy. What about you?

From our friends at Climate Reality

08/16/2014

After all these years, after all the stories of lives ruined, or lost, despite the growing citizen movement to end the Appalachian atrocity that is mountaintop removal mining, it's still happening. But we're not giving up.

http://appvoices.org/2014/08/15/its-still-happening/

08/16/2014

Coming in September!

http://bit.ly/1ubICpS

08/09/2014

http://catholicclimatecovenant.org/the-st-francis-pledge/

08/09/2014

This is some great news!

Harvey Abouelata, President of ARiES Energy, will present on how churches can obtain third party private financing for solar installations, at 8:00 p.m. on Aug. 19th. Details here.

08/05/2014

“Creation is not a property, which we can rule over at will; or, even less, is the property of only a few: Creation is a gift, it is a wonderful gift that God has given us, so that we care for it and we use it for the benefit of all, always with great respect and gratitude,” Pope Francis said.

07/17/2014

Poor Duke Energy. The nation's biggest utility (which ONLY pulled in about $3 billion in profits last year) says it would just cost too much to clean up its leaking, toxic coal ash dumps in North Carolina. Duke decided this based on an example using a (wait for it) Ford pick-up truck to haul the ash away. So, let's buy Duke a bigger dump truck!

https://www.crowdrise.com/HelpDukeEnergyBuyaBiggerDumpTruck

06/28/2014

Restaurants and cafés will no longer be able to use nonbiodegradable food and drink cups and boxes.