Costa Rica eyes billions of dollars in savings with net-zero emissions
Bogota, ColombiaThomson Reuters Foundation Costa Rica’s goal of net-zero carbon emissions by 2050 will net $US41 billion in economic benefits over the next three decades and set an example of the “right road to follow” for other nations, its President and environment minister said on Tuesday. The fiscal payoff of decarbonising the Central American nation, […]
Scotland first in the world to make sanitary products free
London, UKThomson Reuters Foundation Scotland this week made sanitary products free to all women, becoming the first nation in the world to take such a step against “period poverty”. The measure makes tampons and sanitary pads available at designated public places such as community centres, youth clubs and pharmacies, at an estimated annual cost to […]
Pandemic inoculations: COVID vaccines are moral to use, say US ethicists, Catholic bishops
BOB SMIETANA, of Religion News Service, reports…
US food banks short of holiday volunteers due to coronavirus
New York, USThomson Reuters Foundation Coronavirus fears are stripping US soup kitchens, food banks and charities – normally teeming with volunteers during the holiday season, starting with Thanksgiving Day on Thursday – of helping hands to feed the hungry. A food bank in the Rocky Mountain city of Idaho Falls that fed up to 200 […]
Essay: Yes, we can be thankful for an imperfect America this Thanksgiving
In an article first published on Religion News Service, SHANE CLAIBORNE, activist, author and co-director of Red Letter Christians, says it’s possible to be “both thankful for what America is and impatiently hopeful for what America could be”…