Care for Creation Tips for Bulletins


Care for Creation Tips Ask the person who prepares the bulletin to place these in the church bulletin Sunday by Sunday until the end of the year. Introduce it with: “A Care for creation tip from you Green Team.” Apr 19 - Turn off the lights and TV when you are not in the room. Apr 26 - Use cloth napkins instead of paper napkins. May 3 - Use organic products for the lawn instead of chemicals May 10 - Pull weeds instead of spraying with chemicals. May 17 - Don't leave water running while brushing your teeth or doing dishes. May 24 - Use old T-shirts as rags for cleaning, dusting or wiping up spills. Try to eliminate paper towels. May 31 - Ask your family to walk, bike or ride a bus whenever possible. June 7 - Shop at the farmer's markets in the summer. Buy local produce whenever possible. June 14 - Always recycle oil. June 21 - Start a compost pile. June 28 - Bring you own bags to the grocery store. July 5 - Buy more fruits and vegetables and less meat. July 12 - Don't buy aerosol products. They hurt the ozone layer. July 19 - Use paper products instead of plastic, and avoid Styrofoam, which is very difficult to recycle. Take you own bags and containers. July 26 - Join a community supported agriculture program. Aug 2 - Buy organic (no chemicals added) food whenever possible. Aug 9 - Bring a lunch box or reusable bag to school or work to save the trees. Aug 16 - Plant a tree at your home. Trees can cool your house in summer and warm it in winter. Aug 23 - Join the non-partisan League of Conservation Voters at www.conservationvoters.org Aug 30 - Use compact fluorescent bulbs and be sure to recycle them safely. Sept 6 - Recycle newspapers. Only 27% of newspapers produced in America are recycled. Sept 13 - Recycle glass bottles and jars. Every month we (in the U.S.) throw out enough to fill up a giant skyscraper. Sept 20 - Most bottled water contains city tap water. Some 60 million plastic bottles end up in landfills each year and twenty million barrels of oil are used to make the bottles. It is 7,000 times more expensive than using your own tap water. Sept 27 - Three-fourths of our plastic bottles end up in the trash or along the side of the road. Recycle! Oct 4 - Save and recycle domestic batteries safely. Oct 11 - The average household contains from 3 to 25 gallons of toxic materials, mostly in cleaners. Make your own cleaners or buy non-toxic products. Oct 18 - Do not buy products that are labeled "DANGER," "WARMING," or "POISON." Manufacturers aren't required to list ingredients such as phenols, diethylene glycol, nonylphenolethoxlate, formaldehyde, petroleum solvents, perchloroethylene, and butyl cellosolve - all with damaging effects to our bodies.

Care for Creation Tips

Ask the person who prepares the bulletin to place these in the church bulletin Sunday by Sunday until the end of the year. Introduce it with: “A Care for creation tip from you Green Team.”

Apr 19 - Turn off the lights and TV when you are not in the room.
Apr 26 - Use cloth napkins instead of paper napkins.
May 3 - Use organic products for the lawn instead of chemicals
May 10 - Pull weeds instead of spraying with chemicals.
May 17 - Don't leave water running while brushing your teeth or doing dishes.
May 24 - Use old T-shirts as rags for cleaning, dusting or wiping up spills. Try to eliminate paper towels.
May 31 - Ask your family to walk, bike or ride a bus whenever possible.
June 7 - Shop at the farmer's markets in the summer. Buy local produce whenever possible.
June 14 - Always recycle oil.
June 21 - Start a compost pile.
June 28 - Bring you own bags to the grocery store.
July 5 - Buy more fruits and vegetables and less meat.
July 12 - Don't buy aerosol products. They hurt the ozone layer.
July 19 - Use paper products instead of plastic, and avoid Styrofoam, which is very difficult to recycle. Take you own bags and containers.
July 26 - Join a community supported agriculture program.
Aug 2 - Buy organic (no chemicals added) food whenever possible.
Aug 9 - Bring a lunch box or reusable bag to school or work to save the trees.
Aug 16 - Plant a tree at your home. Trees can cool your house in summer and warm it in winter.
Aug 23 - Join the non-partisan League of Conservation Voters at www.conservationvoters.org
Aug 30 - Use compact fluorescent bulbs and be sure to recycle them safely.
Sept 6 - Recycle newspapers. Only 27% of newspapers produced in America are recycled.
Sept 13 - Recycle glass bottles and jars. Every month we (in the U.S.) throw out enough to fill up a giant skyscraper.
Sept 20 - Most bottled water contains city tap water. Some 60 million plastic bottles end up in landfills each year and twenty million barrels of oil are used to make the bottles. It is 7,000 times more expensive than using your own tap water.
Sept 27 - Three-fourths of our plastic bottles end up in the trash or along the side of the road. Recycle!
Oct 4 - Save and recycle domestic batteries safely.
Oct 11 - The average household contains from 3 to 25 gallons of toxic materials, mostly in cleaners. Make your own cleaners or buy non-toxic products.
Oct 18 - Do not buy products that are labeled "DANGER," "WARMING," or "POISON." Manufacturers aren't required to list ingredients such as phenols, diethylene glycol, nonylphenolethoxlate, formaldehyde, petroleum solvents, perchloroethylene, and butyl cellosolve - all with damaging effects to our bodies.