Recycling Your Plastic Bags? Chances Are, You’re Doing it Wrong.

Recycling Your Plastic Bags? Chances Are, You’re Doing it Wrong.

Today is the 20th anniversary of America Recycles Day, a Keep America Beautiful national initiative to raise awareness about the value of recycling. While most people agree that recycling is good for the environment, America Recycles Day is a time to remember that...
10 Simple Ways to Connect with Nature Now

10 Simple Ways to Connect with Nature Now

“Before the scriptures were written, people already knew that there was something sacred about the trees, and about the weather, and about the stones,” said Sister Bette Ann Jaster, a Dominican Sister of Hope. “Nowadays, though, we have so many interruptions that it’s...
Where Holiness Meets Sustainability

Where Holiness Meets Sustainability

This post is in honor of World Environment Day. For a devotion for the day, consider our Prayer for World Environment Day. At the Mariandale Retreat and Conference Center in Ossining, sustainability starts at the reception desk. The front office features low-emission,...
Sister John Christian, Staff, and Students Win $10,000 Recycling Prize

Sister John Christian, Staff, and Students Win $10,000 Recycling Prize

Our school just received a wonderful prize,” wrote Dominican Sister of Hope John Christian McCabe, OP, in a letter to the Dominican Sisters earlier this week. Sister John Christian is the principal at La Academia San José in Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, where she has served...