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Dozens of ecumenical groups are tackling everything from global warming to "eco-palms" for Palm Sunday services.
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"The eco-palms cost a little more, but when you think about what you're doing for the people who grow them and what you do for the Earth, it's worth it," said Sister Sandy Sherman of the Ur-suline Convent on Indian Road.
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He said most of the center's eco-palms are imported from Mexico and Guatemala and are harvested more carefully than the typical palm crop.
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So-called eco-palms provide higher wages to the Third World growers - up to six times what they normally would get - and promote responsible, sustainable harvesting of the fronds.
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A handful of Roman Catholic, Lutheran, United Methodist, and Presbyterian churches in northwest Ohio will pass out eco-palms for tomorrow's Palm Sunday services, a day celebrating the Bible's accounts of the crowds that waved palm branches as Jesus entered Jerusalem.
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With eco-palms, growers are paid according to the quality of the plants they harvest.
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About 640,000 eco-palms will be distributed this Sunday.
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About 640,000 eco-palms will be distributed this Sunday.
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The eco-palms help us do that, "Mr. Gottschling said.
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