LENN Summer 2015

Loretto Earth Network News Divest/Reinvest/Commit Summer 2015

Vol. 23, No. 2

Wendell Berry on Climate Change: To Save the Future, Live in the Present In this selection from his new book, the poet and farmer Wendell Berry connects the dangers of the future to a failure to live fully in the here and now.

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f we understand that Nature can be an economic asset, a help and ally, to those who obey her laws, then we can see that she can help us now. There is work to do now that will make us her friends, and we will worry less about the future. We can begin backing out of the future into the present, where we are alive, where we belong. To the extent that we have moved out of the future, we also have moved out of “the environment” into the actual places where we actually are living.

If, on the contrary, we have our minds set in the future, where we are sure that climate change is going to play hell with the environment, we have entered into a convergence of abstractions that makes it difficult to think or do anything in particular.

If we think the future damage of climate change to the environment is a big problem only solvable by a big solution, then thinking or doing something in particular becomes more difficult, perhaps impossible.

It is true that changes in governmental policy, if the changes were made according to the right principles, would have to be rated as big solutions. Such big solutions surely would help, and a number of times I have tramped the streets to promote them, but just as surely they would fail if not accompanied by small solutions.

And here we come to the reassuring difference between changes in policy and changes in principle. The needed policy changes, though addressed to present evils, wait upon the future, and so are presently nonexistent.

But changes in principle can be made now, by so few as just one of us. Changes in principle, carried into practice, are necessarily small

changes made at home by one of us or a few of us. Innumerable small solutions emerge as the changed principles are adapted to unique lives in unique small places. Such small solutions do not wait upon the future.

Insofar as they are possible now, exist now, are actual and exemplary now, they give hope. Hope, I concede, is for the future. Our nature seems to require us to hope that our life and the world’s life will continue into the future. Even so, the future offers no validation of this hope. That validation is to be found only in the knowledge, the history, the good work, and the good examples that are now at hand.

We must act daily as critics of history so as to prevent, so far as we can, the evils of yesterday from infecting today.

There is in fact much at hand and in reach that is good, useful, encouraging, and full of promise, although we seem less and less inclined to attend to or value what is at hand. We are always ready to set aside our present life, even our present happiness, to peruse the menu of future exterminations. If the future is threatened by the present, which it undoubtedly is, then the present is more threatened, and often is annihilated, by the future. “Oh, oh, oh,” cry the funerary experts, looking ahead through their black veils. “Life as we know it soon will end. If the governments don’t stop us, we’re going to destroy the world. The time is coming when we will have to do something to save the world. The time is coming when it will be too late to save the world. Oh, oh, oh.” If that is the way our minds are afflicted, we and our world are dead already. The present is going by and we are not in it. Maybe when the present is past, we will enjoy sitting in dark rooms and looking at pictures of it, even as the present keeps arriving in our absence.

Or maybe we could give up saving the world and start to live savingly in it.

If using less energy would be a good idea for the future, that is because it is a good idea. The government could enforce such a saving by rationing fuels, citing the many good reasons, as it did during World War II. If the government should do something so sensible, I would respect it much more than I do. But to wish for good sense from the government only displaces good sense into the future, Continued on page 3

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n a way this is an unusual issue of Loretto Earth Editor’s Note Network News. We have scrambled a number of pieces together in a way similar to how your mother Mary Ann Coyle may have taught you to make coleslaw when you were young. Our lead article is from Wendell Berry’s new book. You may want to encourage your library to stock the book and maybe even sponsor discussions for the library patrons.

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In this issue we begin our Reader Response Column with snippets from a letter I received from Don F. Cuddihee, Sr, who hails from South Carolina. He is musing about the winter Earth Network/Women’s Network meeting that took place in Denver last February. His comments do provide grist for the mill and mind.

I am sure we are all eager to read the work Pope Francis is putting together on the environment. As usual, Maureen Fiedler brings her wisdom to bear on this. Libby Comeaux, while writing about a local small suburban city, has included material we might all use when talking with gas and oil drillers.

There are two new groups contributing to this LENN volume. Larraine Lauter is an Ursuline Sister and the director of the Water With Blessings project. While living in Kentucky, Larraine spends lots of time in Honduras and coaches the people she is with in micro-financing and ways to filter and purify water.

We have all said that every day should be called Earth Day. I am grateful to Father Terry Moran and the Convent Station Charities for providing us with an Earth Day ritual and allowing us to adapt it for our readers. In addition to his role as Peace and Justice Coordinator for the Charities, he is on the Network Lobby Board doing similar things.

Important as it is for us to be ever aware of Earth, it is also important to look at home to see how we are doing with sustainable living in our own backyard. Susan Classen helps us do just that and we are grateful. Let us continue to rejoice in the music and sounds of Earth.

READER RESPONSE COLUMN

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By Mary Ann Coyle SL

n every issue of Loretto Earth Network News you have noticed the inclusion of a request that you share some of your sustainable living thoughts with our readers. Recently, I received a hand-written, thoughtful response to the last newsletter. This seemed an ideal way to begin the interchange. The writer of the first exchange is Don F. Cudihee, Sr, now living in South Carolina. I first met Don and his wife Doris (now deceased) at Loretto Motherhouse many years ago and joined them at the School of the Americas asking that the mission of the School be dedicated to the work of peace and justice.

I will try and capture Don’s thoughts in some short phrases: Don writes as follows: • Capitalism, by definition, is free of all restraint and limitations on growth.

• It produces for sale and profit not to satisfy human needs or needs of nature.

• It is opportunistic, i.e., climate change will create the need for huge contracts to protect property.

• It makes the people elected to political office accountable to their benefactors, not the rank and file.

• It transfers financial support for political candidates from the rank and file to big money.

• It makes the workers commodities who bought and sold on the labor market forced to work as appendages to tools owned by someone else.

• It oftentimes is an overproducer and this results in downsizing and unemployment.

The Loretto Earth Network News suggests what we need to give up to embrace the future we want, envisioning new ways of being, creating new paradigms. Don sees this as an enlightened spiritual work requiring “community” support and sustained commitment.

Further, he says, I see a theology that informs us of just how close God really is. I see work ahead to understand this beautiful reality. Love of God will be measured by love for each other and our natural world. Conventional thinking would focus on the sacrifice required; however, renewed thinking would see, feel, and realize the rewards.

I would love to be a part of this and stay connected. My best to all the readers and to those thinking about the future. ahead of us.

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Wendell Berry

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where it is of no use to anybody and is soon overcome by prophesies of doom. On the contrary, so few as just one of us can save energy right now by self-control, careful thought, and remembering the lost virtue of frugality. Spending less, burning less, traveling less may be a relief. A cooler, slower life may make us happier, more present to ourselves, and to others who need us to be present.

Because of such rewards, a large problem may be effectively addressed by the many small solutions that, after all, are necessary, no matter what the government might do. The government might even do the right thing at last by imitating the people.

In this essay and elsewhere, I have advocated for the 50-Year Farm Bill, another big solution I am doing my best to promote, but not because it will be good in or for the future.

I am for it because it is good now, according to present understanding of present needs. I know that it is good now because its principles are now satisfactorily practiced by many (though not nearly enough) farmers.

Only the present good is good. It is the presence of good—good work, good thoughts, good acts, good places—by which we know that the present does not have to be a nightmare of the future. “The kingdom of heaven is at hand” because, if not at hand, it is nowhere.

Copyright © 2015 by Wendell Berry, from Our Only World. Reprinted by permission of Counterpoint.

Wendell Berry adapted this article for Together, With Earth, the Spring 2015 issue of YES! Magazine.

Wendell is the author of more than 50 books of poetry, fiction, and essays.

He was recently awarded the National Humanities Medal, the Cleanth Brooks Medal for Lifetime Achievement by the Fellowship of Southern Writers, and the Louis Bromfield Society Award.

For more than 40 years, he has lived and farmed with his wife, Tanya Berry, in Kentucky.

Pope Francis: A Moral Prophet on Climate Change

By Maureen Fiedler SL

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y the time you read this, Pope Francis’ long awaited encyclical on climate change will have been issued. As I write this in May, that official letter is expected to be strong and unequivocal. A few critics will surely pan it or question it, but worldwide welcome and praise will no doubt drown them out. Climate change, and the devastation it can cause, is simply too critical an issue for people across the globe. Not surprisingly, Pope Francis has framed this whole question in a moral framework.

Moreover, Pope Francis lends “rock star” status to this critical issue. And his voice is welcomed across the religious spectrum. He joins United Nations diplomats, climate scientists and other interfaith leaders calling for strong international action on this life and death issue.

Of course, Francis is not new to this issue. One of the reasons he chose the name “Francis” when he was elected Pope was his identification with the nature-loving St. Francis of Assisi, his patron. On March 16, 2013, just after his election, he told thousands of journalists that he chose the name because Francis of Assisi was “the man of poverty, the man of peace, the man who loves and protects creation,” the same created world “with which we don’t have such a good relationship.”

He began to act even before the encyclical was released. In April of this year, he invited Ban Ki Moon, the Secretary General of the United Nations, to keynote a one-day seminar on climate change at the Vatican. The two world leaders met at that event, and found common ground. Ban Ki Moon embraced the assertion of Pope Francis that climate change is a “moral issue.”

Much of Pope Francis’ concern for climate grows from his deeply-held love of the poor as it intertwines with the looming climate reality. He knows that the most vulnerable people on earth will be the ones most strongly impacted by rising sea levels, droughts, erratic weather patterns and melting glaciers.

He is conversant with the predictions of climate scientists who predict the destruction of life as we know it on Planet Earth if nothing is done to curb greenhouse gases. The first to go will be the poorest of the poor, those closest to the heart of Francis.

Moreover, Francis understands that this is an interfaith moral issue. Hence, he has been in dialogue with faith leaders across the globe with the goal of forming a united moral front for global action.

His encyclical comes just months before the world’s leaders meet in Paris for a United Nations Summit on Climate Change where they will seek to negotiate a (hopefully) binding agreement to substantially reduce global greenhouse-gas emissions, the major cause of climate change in the world today. Previous conferences have produced little, if any, meaningful action. Climate activists are hoping that Planet Earth has reached such a critical stage, that delay is no longer tenable.

Pope Francis’ encyclical may provide the final push needed in that direction.

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The Wisdom of Sister Water

By Larraine Lauter OSU, Executive Director Water With Blessings

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ll praise to the Holy One, who has given us Sister Water. Our first breath of life is not in air, but in the water of our mother’s womb. Before any other essential elements of life touch us, we are children of Sister Water. We sense a deep, desperate and instinctive connection to her, the element of our first breath.

I think and write about water, seated on a friary patio in Honduras. It is July 2014, the winter of Central America. Thanks to the loving cultivation of my Franciscan brotherhosts, the garden is beautifully green and flowered: the crepe myrtle spreads low sweet clouds across the sky, the new growth pushing out from the earth is pungent and insistent. But the truth is, we are in terrible drought here. El Niño has again played havoc with the weather for months. The great reservoir that supplies the twin cities of Tegucigalpa and Comayaguela is declared lower than ever seen. The rivers through the city have shrunk to a trickle. There is great anxiety about the anticipated harvest. “No hay cosecha,” is declared over and over in tones of awe. The price of red beans has doubled. Violence and thirst prevail. Talk is consumed by the stories of children escaping to the U.S. border. In 12 years of frequent visits, I have never witnessed such anxiety, not even in the height of the political struggles of a few years back.

Daily conversation moves from one calamity to another. “What will the people do? How will they live?” ask the friars. “Why should the children not leave? No hay esperanza por ellos aquí.”

Here we live in deep awareness of water. The rare brief afternoon shower is greeted with joy and gratitude. Will

this sip of rain bring up the reservoir level? Flowers and the vegetable garden are watered with just a sip.

Washing of every kind is conducted with care. We sip the clean water with conscious gratitude. We are blessed.

Mothers here in Colonia San Francisco tell me how the water that was turned on once a week is now rationed to once a month. They tell me how many children are chronically ill from the effects of dirty water, “agua sucia.” Would Francis not weep, to see Sister Water so diseased, violated dangerous and even a source of death? Must we not weep, to see these mothers: so tired, so burdened, weeping for their children, and their children’s children? Death and suffering are all around, in violence, in water, in hunger, in hopelessness.

I go out with friends to visit Carmen, a mother in our program: Water With Blessings, Agua Con Bendiciones. To buy clean water is to have less for other necessities. How can I choose? Who gets to drink the clean water?

What, I ask Carmen, do you do with that money now that you are a Water Woman? Her face beams in the shadowed front room of her home. On the white bucket to which the filter is attached Carmen has drawn bright flowers, butterflies, prayers, the names of her children. There is a little drawing of heaven: a bright blue river running

All praise, my Lord, for Sister Water, so useful, humble, precious and pure. Francis of Assisi

through a neat little Honduran ranchito. With this bucket and filter, Carmen no longer buys clean water. She makes it. All we need to do is find and equip more Carmens. What the world needs, right now, is more Water Women. Seems simple enough.

In my home parish community in Kentucky we sing with full heart a beloved song: “not by might, not by power, but by my Spirit, says the Lord.” We sing in One Voice that “these mountains shall be removed,” that temples be built within us.

Perhaps our heart’s calling is simply to offer a sip here, a sip there, whatever will refresh the soul, bring courage and small determined gestures of justice in the face of evil, humble gestures of love in the face of fear. Trust that hidden in every heart in every shadowed barrio lies the wisdom, the insight, the courage needed, if only awakened in simple solidarity. No one needs our arrogant big sister, big brother teaching and preaching.

“Take us by the hand and lead us,” says another song we sing. “Lead us through the desert sands. Bring us living water. Holy Spirit, come.” Here a sip, there a sip. Let us be useful, humble, and pure.

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A Message from Sister Larraine Lauter OSU Water With Blessings is mounting a full-scale campaign for multiple water projects in Nepal. We hope to raise awareness of the acute need for water intervention aid, postearthquake.

program. Every Nepalese mother who is equipped with a filter will be carefully trained. She will then filter for many families around her, becoming a source of clean water and compassion.

The greatest need facing the Nepalese at this moment, and for weeks and months ahead, is for clean, safe water. It is very likely that ultimately, more could die from lack of clean water than died in the earthquake.

Please share this message with others, encourage them to consider supporting the needs of God’s thirsty children in Nepal. You may donate through our website (special options at the SAGE link) or mail a check to the address below. Contributions are tax deductible.

Thanks to a very special offer from our filter manufacturers, Sawyer Products, we are able to offer a special emergency relief rate of $30 to sponsor a mother for our

Y Beth Blissman

Nepalese Mother and Child

Sister Larraine Lauter OSU Executive Director Water With Blessings, Inc. 11714 Main Street, Suite D, Middletown KY 40243 502.749.5492 www.waterwithblessings.org

Blessings, and the gratitude of God’s thirsty children in Nepal...

Sister Larraine

KUDOS

ou will notice some changes in the Loretto Earth Network Coordinating Committee if you are a person who keeps track of changes and simply wonders about what precipitated the change. First of all there is no intrigue involved! Life events simply make change inevitable. However, we would be remiss if we didn’t say a huge THANK YOU to Beth Blissman, Karen Cassidy, and Libby Comeaux who have decided that while maintaining their love of EARTH active in their lives they need to limit the extent to which they participate as drivers at the front desk. As these three leave, we extend a gracious WELCOME to Magdalena McCloskey. Magdalena and Don (recently deceased) lived for many years in the State of Washington and recently relocated to Denver. In the early days of the Earth Network, Magdalena was an active advocate and encourager that Earth issues take a prominent place in hearts, minds, and actions of Loretto members. Presently Magdalena is a Health Coach and a Reliv International Distributor. We can all look forward to future essays by Magdalena related to the food we eat and what we can expect from our bodies in return!

Libby Comeaux

Karen Cassidy

Magdalena McCloskey

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Water Rights and Mineral Rights in a New Colorado Where Sustainability Is Legal

By Libby Comeaux, CoL

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he renewable energy agenda of Coloradoans keeps meeting up against the legal paradigm that nature is separate from humans, can be divided into chunks owned by humans and, once owned, put to virtually any use the owner chooses, including complete destruction. This paradigm insults the inherent rights of beyond-human natural entities and communities to live in a sufficiently natural context that they can fulfill their roles in our common evolutionary journey on planet Earth. At this writing, that common evolutionary journey is about survival of the whole, which for now I will call sustainability.

It was at a Democracy School function that I first heard someone say that this outdated legal paradigm has made sustainability illegal! Just think of the many good ideas people have that would save the planet if not for the fact they would violate some industries’ property rights. In Denver, a high school class discussed their proposed ban on plastic bags with the City Attorney, only to learn that a state law prohibits any ban on plastics.

Whose “rights” are the priority here?

And any fracking ban faces a serious legal fight from industry’s mineral rights holders. At The Downstream Neighbor Water Symposium in January 2012, we discussed Colorado’s system of water rights, a huge high-priced commodities market providing “owners” an unwise array of choices as to their privileged use of water.

At a Center for Earth Jurisprudence event, I once heard Cormac Cullinan describe the evolutionary role of coal, oil, and natural gas as carbon sequestration. All those dead leaves and other creatures buried forever beneath the land, not burned to foul the air, create a vast and elegant natural protection that modern science cannot replicate. Within

these deposits are found living microbes, whose additional role, Sandra Steingraber once commented, may include helping to stabilize the climate. The wisdom of the living Earth, respected by indigenous peoples as elder, teacher, and ancestor, should guide public policy – not outdated “Enlightenment” era, or even misguidedly Christian, notions of separation, human superiority, and domination.

Recently in Grant Township, Pennsylvania, a community-rights local law addressed the paradigm issue. It is more than forty years after Christopher Stone’s brilliant essay “Should Trees Have Standing?” provided the foundation for Justice William O. Douglas’ famous dissent addressing the paradigm problem in Sierra Club v. Morton. Now, with the community of Grant declaring in their local law the natural, essential, and inalienable rights of Little Mahoning Watershed, a court in the United States must address the watershed’s own claim of respect, integrity, and natural function endowed by the same Creator who endowed us all.

What would it be like in Colorado if minerals and microbes could sue to be left in the ground to fulfill their natural evolutionary role of sequestering carbon and stabilizing climate? What would it be like for water to sue to enforce its natural endowment to refresh itself in clear

open air in natural waterways that promote life, rather than be salted and saturated with poisons to support the fracking process and then be forever sealed, spent and dead – unnaturally – miles below the surface of the land (or leak out and do damage years hence)?

These are questions facing many communities. The recently formed National Community Rights Network helps local communities understand the legal paradigm problem and create local solutions, with the goal of transforming state constitutions and then the federal constitution as awareness unfolds. In this way, over the coming decades, sustainability will not only be the natural wisdom of Earth, but also legal.

Communities across Colorado are educating themselves in preparation for a community-rights ballot initiative in 2016. This time, many states will be joining them as the peoples’ movement to re-enliven democracy moves forward. The common goal of the community-rights movement is for individuals, communities, and nature to exercise their natural endowment of local decision-making in a web of nested relationships within a natural whole – where sustainability is legal.

CELDF Executive Director, Thomas Linzey, Esq., stated, “This lawsuit, brought by the gas industry to overturn a democratically enacted law, threatens the rights of both human and natural communities. This represents the first time an ecosystem is seeking to defend its legally enforceable rights to exist and flourish by intervening in a lawsuit.” http://www.celdf. org/press-release-first-in-nationecosystem-files-to-defend-legalrights-to-exist--flourish

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Call to Prayer: Happy 45th Birthday to Earth Day! The theme of Earth Day 2015 is It’s Our Turn to Lead. We seek to harness the power of Earth Day to pressure the world to recognize the massive challenge that climate change presents, while uniting people around the globe into a powerful call to action. We pray today to recommit ourselves to the great work of living in new ways of relationship with Earth. We pray to remain faithful to daily acts of reverence and respect to Earth and all its creatures. We begin our prayer raising our voices in song: At the Dawn of Your Creation HYMN: ODE TO JOY 8.7.8.7 D (“Joyful, Joyful, We Adore Thee”) At the dawn of your creation, God, you spoke, “Let there be light!”

You divided earth from heaven, you created day and night.

You made sunbeams dance with shadows, you created energy!

Peaceful evenings, bright tomorrows, all began with “Let there be...”

By your word, you formed creation: dry land, water, ocean breeze.

Soon there burst forth vegetation — plants with fruit, majestic trees.

Rain and snow and changing seasons, creatures filling land and sea — God, your very good creation all began with “Let there be...”

When you made us as your children, sending us throughout your lands, You commanded, “Have dominion — care for earth; it’s in your hands.”

Yet we hurt this world you’ve given; we harm earth and sky and sea.

We forget it’s your creation — you, who once said “Let there be...”

At this joyful celebration, may we hear your word anew: May we care for your creation, knowing it’s a trust from you.

Just as daily there’s a dawning, bringing light to all we see, So we daily hear your calling — you, who once said, “Let there be...”

A Reading from The Earth Charter: We stand at a critical moment in Earth’s history, a time when humanity must choose its future. As the world becomes increasingly interdependent and fragile, the future at once holds great peril and great promise. To move forward we must recognize that in the midst of a magnificent diversity of cultures and life forms we are one human family and one Earth community with a common destiny. We must join together to bring forth a sustainable global society founded on respect for nature, universal human rights, economic justice, and a culture of peace. Towards this end, it is imperative that we, the peoples of Earth, declare our responsibility to one another, to the greater community of life, and to future generations.

Pause for Silent Reflection Petitions — Response: Creator Spirit, hear our prayer + That we may all grow in wisdom, to learn to walk gently on Earth and to live in this world as in God’s temple, we pray… + For scientists, inventors, environmental activists that they will use their energies to help human life flourish in harmony with Creation, we pray… + That we may heed the call of the Spirit moving in each of us to be leaders in protecting God’s creation, we pray… + For the leaders of the world who will meet in December at the Climate Change Summit in Paris, that they will take effective and energetic action to deal with the environmental challenges facing us, especially global climate change, we pray… + For all Earth citizens that they may embrace the concerns of all Earth’s creatures as one, we pray.

Closing Prayer: All: Give us discernment to see God’s presence in Earth. May we respond to the needs of our time and the call of Earth and Earth’s children. God of Boundless Charity, you invite us to live simply, to live sustainably, and to live in solidarity with the poor. Help us to respond to that invitation with conviction and generosity. Amen.

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SOLAR ELECTRICITY COMES TO LORETTO MOTHERHOUSE

By Susan Classen CoL

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t’s morning and I’m enjoying the delights of spring in Kentucky. A bobwhite calls out in the distance and I rejoice that this increasingly rare bird is finding a home again in the conservation areas on Motherhouse land. I watch as white petals from the honey locust tree drift to the ground infusing the air with their sweet aroma. Curious about how much sun it takes for our solar panels to begin producing electricity, I make my way to the side of the cordwood cabin at Cedars of Peace to check the electric meter. Sure enough, the meter is slowly turning backwards as electricity from the panels is fed into the electrical grid.

In September, Cedars of Peace joined more than 195,000 homes and businesses that installed solar panels in 2014 alone. It was literally a dream come true for the retreat center that made a commitment 10 years earlier to live gently on the land. Thanks to significant financial support from the Loretto Earth Network, we built a new cabin in 2004 using principles of natural construction. At that point, solar panels were still too expensive so we concentrated on the necessary step of conserving electricity and put the dream of producing electricity on hold.

Times have changed. The cost of home solar installations has dropped 60% since 2011 making it much more

Renewable Energy Facts • Nearly 1/3 of all new electricity in the past five years has come from wind.

• Nationally, every three weeks, the solar industry is installing as much capacity as it did in all of 2008.

affordable than in the past. But the decision to install the panels was inspired by more than falling prices.

The timing can be traced back to July 2013 when a representative from a pipeline company came to the Motherhouse seeking permission for a hazardous liquids pipeline to cross our property. We immediately joined our neighbors in a resistance movement that eventually forced the pipeline company to withdraw the project.

That success provides hope as yet another company seeks to send hazardous liquids through Kentucky on the way from fracking fields in the north to processing plants in the south.

• Solar workers now outnumber coal miners by nearly 2 to 1.

• Since the mid-2000’s, the power generated from new solar installations has increased, on average, 66% per year.

• Burlington, Vermont now runs on 100% renewable energy.

- Anticipated savings over the next 10 years: $20 million - Rate increase since 2009: 0

As we actively resist the destructive use of fossil fuels at the Motherhouse, we are also committed to transitioning to renewable energy. Installing solar panels at Cedars of Peace is one small step towards a new energy vision.

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