This Month's Focus: Throw Away Less Food
From the United Nations' webpage "Actions for a Healthy Planet:"
Everyone suffers when water and land are contaminated by garbage that's been improperly discarded. Buy only what you need and use it up. If you have to throw something away, do so properly. One third of the two billion tons of trash we create causes environmental harm.
Here are past and future 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.
