Tag: Sustainable living

What to Get for the Person Who Has Everything

December 14, 2023

On your Christmas gift list do you have someone who always says, “I have everything I need?” Or someone who is striving to live simply and is downsizing? How do you express your love to such friends and relations with a gift if they don’t want a present? Donate to a good cause in their…
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Dreaming of a Green Christmas

December 4, 2023

Here are some excellent ideas for creation care during the holidays. From Earth 911, four suggestions for making Christmas gift buying and wrapping environmentally sound From Crys, tips for greening your gift giving, greening your decorating, greening your celebrations and greening your putting away And a wonderful place to help the world’s children when you…
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A Sustainable Life

November 16, 2023

We were so fortunate this past Season of Creation to have four of our members come forward and share their ways of living a sustainable life. Here’s a summary so that you can go back to review their tips: Sustainable CommutingStuart Hobbes told us about the value of bus commuting, how it was good for…
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Alternative Commuting

November 8, 2023

During the time of announcements at the 10:30 worship on September 3, Stuart Hobbes talked about his bus commuting, a good way to combat the climate crisis. Stuart and Jamie planned their last move so that they were on a bus route directly to his work. That means they only need one car, which is…
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Creating a Pollinator Garden

September 18, 2023

As part of our Season of Creation talks series, Susan Burghes spoke about the pollinator garden she created at the back of the church with some help from Joe Rutter. Then, after the service, she met people at the garden to answer questions and to give away seed packets. She had an avid audience of…
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Some Positive News About Plastic Pollution and More Useful Environmental Newsletters

May 18, 2023

The UN Environment Programme (Unep) has released a report saying that Global plastic pollution could be slashed by 80% by 2040. The Guardian reports that “The changes needed are major, but are also practical and affordable.… The first step is to eliminate unnecessary plastics, such as excessive packaging, the report said. Then next steps are…
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Want to Cut Down on Plastic at Home? Subscribe to These Excellent Newsletters:

May 18, 2023

EcoWatch EcoWatch started as an Ohio-based environmental newsletter and has expanded world-wide. Scroll down the webpage to find the subscription box. You will receive a daily summary of environmental news, followed by a final article aimed at helping you adopt successful environmental practices at home. Simply Living Speaking of local, Simply Living is central Ohio’s…
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Ways to Engage in Sustainable Living

March 3, 2021

Last week’s article was pretty grim, surveying the ways polluting industries are working to undermine environmental reforms. But not all environmental news is bad. There are many encouraging signs on the horizon.Recently the New York Times published an article to help readers “Stop Freaking Out and Tackle Climate Change.” It offers a five-step program for…
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Fasting from Fast Fashion for Lent (or Longer)

February 4, 2021

It always startled me to begin seeing spring and summer clothing ads from the “Fast Fashion” industry in February. I’ve gotten used to it, and I can see why people who are getting awfully tired of winter, not to mention COVID precautions, might really want to start imagining warmer, freer times and go clothes shopping.The…
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Living the Zero Waste Life

January 28, 2021

Although there are arguments about where the most pollution comes from, industry or human consumers, Lloyd Alter reports that a study from “the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies and Aalto University in Finland…bucked the common belief that 100 companies are responsible for 71% of emissions; it actually claimed that 72% of emissions were caused by…
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