Sister(s) Act(ing) For the Environment

The Kansas City Star has a piece on an order of Catholic sisters in Clyde, Missouri, the Benedictine Sisters of Perpetual Adoration, who live a life of treading as softly as they can on the Earth. 

"...At a century-old monastery atop a ridge in northwest Missouri, Sister Sean Douglas contemplates ground-source heat pumps. To retrofit the thick-walled home and chapel of the Benedictine Sisters of Perpetual Adoration for a geothermal system would be costly, she knows. But the existing radiator heat, fueled by propane, is so …

“Awful,” Douglas said.

Awful, she means, because it’s a nonrenewable resource.

In large and small ways, the community of 75 Catholic sisters is going green, from driving hybrid cars to using biodegradable corn starch pellets to ship the altar bread they make..."

Read about how the sisters are contributing, to helping end global warming, both on and off the monastery here.