Hindus Praise Vatican for Embracing Solar
Hindus have praised the Vatican and Pope Benedict for finishing the installation of its 2400-panel solar photovoltaic array, a move that will cut its carbon monoxide emissions by about 225 tons and save the equivalent of 80 tons of oil each year.
Zed, who is president of the Universal Society of Hinduism, urged all world religious leaders, religions and denominations to openly bless the environmental causes. Ancient Hindu scriptures, especially Atharva-Veda, were highly respectful of mother nature, he added.
“We may believe in different religions, yet we share the same home—our Earth. We must learn to happily progress or miserably perish together. For man can live individually but can only survive collectively,” Rajan Zed said, quoting scriptures.
Zed may soon have even more reasons to heap praise on Pope Benedict, as Vatican officials are reportedly considering building a 740 acre solar array on land it owns north of Rome and selling excess electricity back to the Italian grid.
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I`m sure the Pope will be over the moon when he`s told.
Great submission Rajan,
We Hindu strongly believe and worship ‘SUN’ as our god and creator of the world. The Sun is source of all the energies on the planet earth. If we will use the eneergy emerging from the SUN in right perspective, we will have abundant energy for everyone on the earth.
Ravi Soparkar
Pune, India
I read that German Giants Solar World gave the Vatican the solar panels. Great bit of PR by them