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The Pontifical Institute has launched an energy efficiency project aimed at reducing consumption by installing renewable energy sources across its campus. Fr. Andrea Bozzolo, the Univesity's Rector, notes that by becoming a ‘Laudato si’ university, we are responding to the cries of the Earth and to those of the poor, aspiring to new lifestyles and promoting a vision of Creation as a gift from God.Imagine a dense forest of over 4000 trees soaring towards the sky, as large as Italy’s Island of Ventotene. Imagine the oxygen that 4000 trees are able to produce and the injection of pure air that...