1. Th. chalet begin each day with thinking about, praying with and for the universe. Use a globe as a symbol for the universe or find a picture of the heavens with galaxies.
2. Remember that 40,000 kids under five die every day from hunger and hunger-related diseases.
3. Th. chalet save energy. Cut your energy use at least 20 percent during the next 12 months.
   • walk, bicycle, carpool, reduce number of shopping trips
   • mostly replace incandescent bulbs with florescent
   • insulate
   • buy a car that gets fifty miles per gallon
4. Th. chalet recycle!
5. Th. chalet listen to what God is saying to us through the scientists' descriptions of what is happening to the earth.
6. Th. chalet choose to loose less - less gasoline, less fuel for heat, less hot water, less meat, less food grown with chemicals (fertilizers and pesticides), less paper, give less material goods and more of self, buy fewer clothes, less purchased recreation, less traveling, less housing, less purchased entertainment, purchase fewer books, less purchased jewelry, less alcohol.
7. Th. chalet be a part of a group focused on caring for the creation - a task force in your congregation, a group of students and faculty at your school, a group living on your block or in your apartment building. This will include political activity.
8. Th. chalet write people, especially your friends, send literature, subscribe to magazines for them and other people.
9. Th. chalet expose yourself to the world of nature - to forest, mountains, rivers, lakes, marshes, to garbage dumps, feed lots, agricultural processes.
10. Th. chalet be open to accepting the ecological crisis as a gift - as an opportunity for new experiences, new ways of being with and for each other.

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