Results from Tag: 'environment'

Mark Kretschmer, vice president for operations at Thomas Aquinas College (TAC), pictured with Thomas Kaiser, a biologist and researcher, and Lawerence Youngblood, an electrical engineer and director of Brompton Energy.

Thomas Aquinas College Goes Off the Grid with Green Power Plan

A sequestered Catholic college in the foothills of California launched an energy program that has nearly eliminated the college’s carbon footprint while saving $600,000 a year, giving the school more reliable energy than the state power grid.

Copies of Pope Francis' encyclical Laudato Si are displayed prior to the start of a press conference, at the Vatican on June 18.

Laudato Si’s Ultimate Value

COMMENTARY: What cannot be lost amid the partisan posturing over this document is the most important, inspiring dimension of his text — his heartfelt vision of nature as divine creation.