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St. John’s Abbey: The Benedictines clearly get this whole creation care thing – the
monks at St. John’s Abbey in Collegeville, Minnesota, have installed a large solar array
to help power their various educational institutions.

Tintern Abbey: We English majors know this name from
William Wordsworth’s poem, but sustainability folks may
now want to pay attention: the historic Welsh abbey is
now solar powered. Tintern (as far as I can tell) is
strictly a historical site at this point, not a working
monastery… but this was too cool not to include.

Solar panels on the roof Woodside Priory: Primarily a boarding school in the Bay

of Tintern Abbey Area, Woodside Priory was founded by Benedictine
monks who still reside on campus at St. Stephen’s

monastery. The institution went the solar leasing route with SolarCity, which estimates
cost savings of over $3000 a month.

Franziskusgemeinschaft community in Austria.

We received a delightful postcard here at the ICD:

Dear Friends!
Anton was in Findhorn this past summer and met and talked with my Granddaughter,
Lena Kager who lives there! I love thinking about how small the world is!
The community sends greetings and wish you all the best!
C.A.L.L. is one of my favourite (most favourite!) magazines!
Keep going,
Susie Reitlinger

And this from Alex at Ganas Community in New York

I want to be here. I chose to be here. I set this life up to go through to evolve my
soul.... I needed to learn humility and compassion. I
needed to prune the me tree. I believe that the soul
comes to earth to grow. I had to have less of everything
to see my arrogance was unfounded. Being here is
helping me care, have compassion and openness. But you
cannot do this without a partner. I cannot dance alone.
This is making me see other people too. Not just my
wife. Everybody else is everybody else to everybody
else. It is letting me see the other in the me and vice
versa.

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