Hey Nigel, Just catching up with 37 GoaNet digests... and I hope Fr. Ivo is going to hear your confession before giving you Easter communion this year :-) ...
Church advocates carbon fast for Lent http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/feb/05/tearfund However, I think it is a commendable request to make of those who can't wait to make up for their Lenten abstinences. If only their efforts could be sustainable after the 40 days and 40 nights, you could be onto to something here. Incidently, going vegetarian for Lent 'kills two birds with one stone' to use an inappropriate idiom, given the topic. A vegetarian diet reduces the diner's carbon footprint http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/06/06/business/greencol07.php Another initiative you may have heard of is even shorter but makes a positive impact on our consciousness of how dependent we have become on polluting sources of energy. http://www.earthhour.org/ We hope that the environment session (chaired by Helga Rosario Gomes and her husband, Joaquim Goes) at the 2008 Goan Convention in Toronto will focus on some of these issues affecting the local and global environment. Kevin ============== Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2008 10:15:30 +0530 From: "Nigel Britto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PS: For all you crusader/clergymen/scientists out there, this is not the official stance of any Christian denomination's Church. It's just a .. hmmm. Goanetters initiative, if I may call it that :-) Truth Liberates? Nigel Britto -- http://2008goanconvention.com http://www.multiculturalcanada.ca/ecp/content/goans.html
