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A man participates in an interfaith vigil before the 2014 U.N. climate summit in Lima, Peru. (Barbara Fraser) Editor s Note: EarthBeat Weekly is your weekly newsletter about faith and climate change. Below is the Jan. 1 edition. To receive EarthBeat Weekly in your inbox, sign up here. Happy 2021! As we begin a new year, this seems like a good time to look back at where we ve been and where we re going. I joined EarthBeat five months ago, and it feels like home now although I m kind of glad that my physical home is in Lima, Peru, in the Southern Hemisphere, where we re now having summer instead of winter. ....
REFLECT As part of Simple Advent, Abundant Life, we invited young people to share how they strive to live simply on the earth as a sign of hope that restoration is possible. Today s reflection comes from Connor O Leary Herreras, a senior at Bishop O’Dowd High School in Oakland, California. Right now, my life is chaotic, but when I tend to the one-by-four-foot garden bed in my backyard, I am removed from the stress of college applications, my senior year and the civil unrest our country faces. Essays, assignments and politics all dissipate as I hover my watering can above the rows of carrots and lettuce, allowing its water to saturate the soil. Since April of this year, I have harvested zucchini, peas, tomatoes and more. ....
REFLECT As part of Simple Advent, Abundant Life, we invited young people to share how they strive to live simply on the earth as a sign of hope that restoration is possible. Today s reflection comes from Denise Rodriguez, a senior at Cristo Rey St. Martin in Waukegan, Illinois. My name is Denise Rodriguez, I am a senior at Cristo Rey St. Martin in Waukegan, Illinois. I’m really passionate about keeping our world clean, meaning keeping my environment safe. Throughout my high school years, I ve engaged more with ways to keep our environment clean. The first club I joined was our eco-club. Believe me, we re a small group but we have made changes. Our biggest accomplishment is having a composting bin. We started our composting bin last year, and it was pretty great. Unfortunately, due to COVID-19 we don t have a lot of students attending school. ....
REFLECT As part of Simple Advent, Abundant Life, we invited young people to share how they strive to live simply on the earth as a sign of hope that restoration is possible. Today s reflection comes from Josie Schuman, a senior at John Carroll University, in Cleveland: In proportion as he simplifies his life, the laws of the universe will appear less complex. -Henry David Thoreau, Walden Living simply is hard, especially in today s age of throwaway culture where people discard perfectly good items to be replaced with something new and shiny. I am guilty of buying into this narrative. As a senior in college, I am incredibly grateful to have had the privilege to study abroad my sophomore year, during which I had an epiphany about living simply (as paradoxical as that sounds). ....