Week in Review - 8/23/19

Friday's collection of articles, etc found around the internet this week.

Zero Waste:

CNN talks about Trump and plastics

Tiny pieces of plastic found in Arctic

Economics:

The power of the consumer

Wisdom of the saints:

How should the rich relate to the poor?

Other Environmental Concerns:

Forest Fires in Brazil

Bishop Barron Explains Catholic Social Teaching:

Bishop Barron on George Will's The Conservative Sensibility

Hope

A lovely article on how going local can save the world  Here's a quote.

"There are two key instructions to tease out. First, I seek the restoration of relationship, with both my neighbor and my place, which doesn’t depend on my cleverness, the sophistication of my technology, the money at hand, or the permission of politicians. I restore my relationship with strong doses of affection and humility, and by keeping my work, like the honeybee, eminently local.

Second, that we, each of us, are capable of countless small acts of care, and in such is the restoration of the wild, the world, and the culture. In such is the conversion of the displacing colonist to the helpful, welcome guest."