LEYM Earthcare Committee
Some Lifestyle Things to Consider About Walking More Lightly Over the Earth:
The 5 R’s:
- 1 - Respect the planet, your health, fellow human beings;
- 2 - Rethink your lifestyle and buying patterns;
- 3 - Reduce the amount you purchase or use;
- 4 - Reuse things;
- 5 - Recycle what you can't reuse.
Look up the ten recommended actions on the Turn the Tide Network of the New American Dream.
Look up how to calculate your personal “ecological footprint”.
From Turn The Tide
"If you and I and every other subscriber to The Simple Living Network On-Line Newsletter install four energy-efficient light bulbs and take a few other simple actions we will eliminate 800 million pounds of climate-warming carbon dioxide, and save 9.6 billion gallons of water, 34,000 trees, and 2.5 million pounds of sea life -- every year."
Facts from One Makes the Difference:
- "If 190,000 car owners started to get tune-ups for their cars regularly, it would keep an estimated 90 million pounds of carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere."
- "By turning down your central heating thermostat only one degree, your fuel consumption can be cut by as much as ten percent."
- "If you recycle soda cans, the energy used, and air pollution created, is 95 percent less than if the cans were produced from raw materials."
- "The loss of habitat constitutes the greatest threat to the existence of native creatures and biodiversity. The second greatest threat is the biological invasion of non-native plants and animals."
- "Home gardeners use up to 10 times more toxic chemicals than farmers."
- "Americans make 123 million car trips each day that are short enough to be made on foot."
"Our Great Work is to sustain the great story of a God that is in all and through all." - Thomas Berry in "The Great Story"
"Go home and fall in love with life - self, others, and cosmos!" Satish Kumar
"Bake bread, take naps, and be the change you seek in the world!" - Mahatma Gandhi
Be peace!" - Thich Nhat Hanh
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