Sister Monica Okon doesn't consider her recent lunch at Omaha's College of St. Mary a miracle, but she does see it as an opportunity to perform an environmentally moral act. The nun scooped her mashed potatoes and salad into a reusable, biogradable to-go container that she planned to wash and return to the cafeteria the next day.
"We're trying to make a difference, even if it's just a little one,” said College of St. Mary student Juana Acosta about recycling efforts.
Plastic foam, that hard-to-recycle enemy of the environment often used for to-go containers, is now banned in the college's cafeteria. The ban is one of several new green initiatives being pushed by the school's president and supported by a student-led environmental group.
The European Union will likely propose that aviation and shipping should cut their carbon dioxide emissions by 10 and 20 percent, respectively, below 2005 levels over the next decade, while it faces a setback in the roll-out of carbon capture and storage plants by 2015, reports