Environmental Education

Learn how your purchases affect the environment and how you can reduce, reuse and recycle to create less impact. Joe Spair of Pelletier Recycling and Lynn Leopold with Reuse in Ithaca New York share their knowledge and wisdom of how we can keep in balance what we discard without affecting our environment. Those attending will learn facts about climate affects from our purchases. We will be educated on balancing this care for the earth with what can and cannot be recycled. We face the reality that we cannot recycle our way out of the many environmental crises we face, and ...

The Benedictine sisters at Holy Wisdom brought into balance their care for the earth efforts by working both within their 'household' and systemically. They restored a wetland, created an oak savanna and continued work on a diverse prairie. They didn't do this alone but partnered with government agencies and nonprofits to make this happen. They sought a balance between what they could do individually and worked for systemic change with others to bring about a witness and model of the difference care for the earth can be. During the past year and a half, Climate Action events addressed our individual ...