This Month's Focus: Make Your Money Count
Everything we spend money on affects the planet. You have the power to choose which goods and services you support. To reduce your environmental impact, choose products from companies who use resources responsibly and are committed to cutting their gas emissions and waste. If you have money that is being invested for you, through a pension fund for instance, it may be supporting fossil fuels or deforestation. Making sure your savings are invested in environmentally sustainable businesses can greatly reduce your carbon footprint.
From the United Nations' webpage "Actions for a Healthy Planet:"
Here are past installments:
January – “Saving Energy at Home”
February – “Speak Up” (centered around Washington State Legislation)
March - “Reduce, Reuse, Repair, Recycle”
April – “Plastics” or “Consider Your Travel”
May – “Walk, Bike or take Public Transport”
June – “Plant Native Species”
July – “Switch to an Electric Vehicle”
August – “Eat More Vegetables”
September – “Throw Away Less Food”
October – “Clean Up your Environment”
November – “Change Your Home’s Source of Energy”
December – “Make your Money Count”
(Each Monthly Focus was selected to correspond to the Season of the Year)
The First Congregational Church ‘Green Team’ hopes to help our faith community focus on just one or two items or ideas you and/or your family can try each month: to reduce our carbon footprint; suggest ideas for what you can specifically do; reinforce our monthly ritual in Worship; bring hope to our efforts individually and together on Climate Justice. Comments? Send them to Nancy Fayram or Mark Gale.
What can you do? Try one or two ideas each month. Give us feedback how we are doing.
