Make Your Money Count is the Notre Dame Virtual School’s Theme for November. At any age we can all make our money count.
Every one of us can make choices to protect nature, tackle climate change, and take care of our planet. (Illustration: United Nations Department of Global Communications)
MAKE YOUR MONEY COUNT
Everything we spend money on affects the planet. You have the power to choose which goods and services you support. To reduce your environmental impact, choose products from companies who use resources responsibly and are committed to cutting their gas emissions and waste. If you have money that is being invested for you, through a pension fund for instance, it may be supporting fossil fuels or deforestation. Making sure your savings are invested in environmentally sustainable businesses can greatly reduce your carbon footprint. (Source: https://www.un.org/en/actnow/ten-action)
Use a browsers search engine (AI) about the “3 jar method” for budgeting sustainably.
Key Ways to Make Your Money Count:
- Eat Sustainably: Reduce food waste and choose more sustainable food options, such as vegetables, which can lower your environmental impact.
- Responsible Consumption: Reduce your purchases of new goods, especially items that generate high emissions, such as fast fashion and single-use plastics.
- Support Green Companies: Choose products and services from companies committed to responsible resource use, emissions reduction, and waste cutting.
- Invest in Energy Efficiency: Save money and the planet by making your home, school, parish, work place more energy-efficient and considering renewable energy options like solar panels.
- Sustainable Banking & Investing: Switch to ethical banks and building societies, and ensure your savings and pension funds are invested in environmentally sustainable businesses rather than fossil fuels or deforestation.
Throw away less food – When you throw food away, you’re also wasting the resources and energy that were used to grow, produce, package, and transport it. And when food rots in a landfill, it produces methane, a powerful greenhouse gas. So purchase only what you need, use what you buy and compost any leftovers. Cutting your food waste can reduce your carbon footprint by up to 300 kilograms of CO2e per year. [ Source: https://www.un.org/en/actnow/ten-action ]
Reduce, reuse, repair and recycle – Electronics, clothes, plastics and other items we buy cause carbon emissions at each point in production, from the extraction of raw materials to manufacturing and transporting goods to market. To protect the climate, buy fewer things, shop second-hand, and repair what you can. Plastics alone generated 1.8 billion metric tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions in 2019 – 3.4 per cent of the global total. Less than 10 per cent is recycled, and once plastic is discarded, it can linger for hundreds of years. Buying fewer new clothes – and other consumer goods – can also reduce your carbon footprint. Every kilogram of textiles produced generates about 17 kilograms of CO2e. (Source: https://www.un.org/en/actnow/ten-action)
VOCATION AWARENESS WEEK (November 2 – 8, 2025)
National Vocation Awareness Week (NVAW) is an annual week-long celebration of the Catholic Church in the United States dedicated to promote vocations to ordained ministry and consecrated life through prayer, invitation, and education, and to renew our prayers and support for those who are considering these vocations.
Bold and Faithful: Meet Today’s Religious [ Source: https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/5d9c569d764141a58d8ccf7e01acdff7 ]
POPE LEO XIV ACTS NOW
Pope Leo Newman doctor church light new generations (November 1)
Pope Leo invited students participating in the Jubilee of the World of Education to become peacemakers in their everyday lives. (@Vatican Media)
Pope to students: Do not let technology use you (November 1) Pope Leo challenges students participating in the Jubilee of the World of Education to work for a better society through education, which is “one of the most beautiful and powerful tools for changing the world.”
From Nicea to the Port of Beirut: Pope Leo’s schedule for Türkiye and Lebanon (1700th anniversary of the First Ecumenical Council of Nicea 325 CE)
Notre Dame Virtual School Calendar, 2025-2026
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