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Andrea Ferich & Chris Haw: Practicing Resurrection in Industrial Wastelands: CCDA 2006 Audio

The world's communities, its peoples and ecosystems, are caught in a spiral of disintegration. The Camden House is experimenting with ways to integrate lives through hospitality, gardening, redeeming land, and creating healthy rhythms of neighborhood life.

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Kevin Brown: Hurricane Katrina - Tales of the Storm: CCDA 2006 Audio

On August 29, 2005 a devastating hurricane wiped out most of a city: 80% of the housing stock gone, most of the population evacuated, the infrastructure a shambles. In this session you will learn how one CCDA ministry reshaped its mission and began unique work to bring hope from chaos.

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"I don't really need that bag."

Looking for something simple you can do to lower your impact on the environment? The next time you make a quick grocery run, or pick up some fast food, just say six words: "I don't really need that bag." Plastic bags are virtually indestructible, and are particularly damaging when they get into our bodies of water, as an article from Salon describes.

While we can't stop plastic bag production - or even get stores like Wal-Mart and Target to cut back on their over-generous use of plastic bags - we can choose to cut back on our own plastic bag use. Who knows? We may raise the awareness of some cashiers in the process.

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Al Gore: 15 Ways to Help Prevent a Climate Crisis: TED 2006 Video

Al Gore

Losing the presidential race didn't defeat Al Gore. In this 2006 talk, he is funnier, more passionate, and more practical than ever. Building upon the awareness of climate change created by An Incovenient Truth, here he identifies 15 ways we can address climate change, from buying a hybrid car to inventing a hotter brand name for global warming. His message: Doing something is easier than you think.

 

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John Doerr: The Promise and Profits of Greentech: TED 2007 Video

John             Doerr

"I don't think we're going to make it," John Doerr proclaims, in an emotional talk about climate change and investment. Recently his daughter demanded he fix the mess the world is heading for. So he and his partners at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers embarked on a greentech world tour -- surveying the state of the art, from the ethanol revolution in Brazil to Wal-mart's (!) eco-concept store in Bentonville, Arkansas. KPCB is investing $200 million in green technologies to save the planet -- profitably. But, Doerr fears, it may not be enough.

 

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Alex Steffen: Inspired Ideas for a Sustainable Future: TED 2005 Video

Alex Steffen

Worldchanging.com founder Alex Steffen offers

a fast-paced round-up of radical (but possible) answers to

our planet's greatest challenges, ranging from green cities

and buildings, to digital collaboration tools, to ingenious

tools for the developing world (flowers that detect

landmines; straws that purify water as you drink;

merry-go-rounds that pump water using the energy expended by

children at play).

As Western-style consumerism spreads to developing

countries, we must re-imagine our world - a process he

believes is slowly happening in such cities as Vancouver and

Portland, Oregon, and also in the developing world, where

new technologies and new forms of collaboration are

combining to solve 21st-century problems.

 

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Blog Action Day is October 15th. Are you ready?

On October 15th bloggers across the world will unite for one purpose: to raise awareness of environmental issues. It's called Blog Action Day, and you can register by clicking here.

Affordable Sustainability

Paradoxically, our culture has made it cheaper to be unhealthy than healthy, easier to destroy the environment rather than to be a part of it. I am wondering how we could take organic living out of the province of the elite and make it accessible to everybody. I am looking for affordable sustainability.

McDonald's Video Game: Activism by Mouse Clicks

McDonald's Video Game

While many have said that fast-food giants like McDonald's are promoting an unsustainable lifestyle, this game gives you a chance to find out for yourself. It's never been so fun to run a huge corporation into the ground.

Course 301 - History of Urban Missions

Course 301 - History of Urban Missions (3 credits) 

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Course 311 - Theology & Strategies of Urban Missions

Course 311 - Theology & Strategies of Urban Missions (3 credits) 

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Majora Carter: Greening the Ghetto: TED 2005 Video

Majora Carter - Greening the Ghetto

In an emotionally charged talk, Majora Carter explains her fight for environmental justice in the South Bronx. This MacArthur-winning activist shows how minority neighborhoods have suffered most from flawed urban policy, and energetically shares her grassroots efforts to "green the ghetto."

 

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Catholic Charities Archdiocese of New Orleans



1000 Howard Avenue
New Orleans, LA, 70113
United States
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Agriculture, Children and Youth Ministry, Cleaning / Facilities, Construction, Disaster / Global Relief, Indirectly Serving People, Skilled Trades

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Door of Hope



669 N Los Robles Ave
Pasadena, CA, 91101
United States
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