Environmental Ministries

Creating Environmental Awareness
through Education, Action, and Example

WE ARE NOT ALONE ON THIS PLANET

OBJECTIVES

                       Eliminate use of plastic shopping bags in Brownsville          

                       Create a neighborhood recycling program for every
                       home in Brownsville

                       Institute Green policies for our church

                       Support local efforts to make Brownsville
                       a Green community

                      Work with the Diocesan Environmental Task Force
                      to build a Green church at the Stillman site

CORE BELIEFS

                    Stewardship:  taking care of what God gave us.

                    Education:  discovering the issues and problems
                         and learning what to do and how to do it.

                    Awareness:  creating an informed population
                         who cares.

                    Action:  change our community by changing how we
                         impact our environment.  Working with community
                         leaders and businesses to improve our carbon foot print.

WHAT WE CAN DO TODAY

                                Reduce energy consumption in your church and home.

                                Eliminate waste caused by over-consumption.

                                Participate in recycling efforts.

                               Become politically sensitive and active regarding government
                               environmental issues.

                               Re-buy and Reuse.

                               Personally help reduce pollution.

                               Receive and share environmental information

                                Changing the world begins with changing
                           ourselves.  Living by example is the best
                            witness to the truth of what we believe. 
                            We have one earth.  As we care for it,
                                         it will care for us.

RESOURCES

“The Story of Stuff with Annie Leonard”
A DVD By Free Range Studios

Environmental Task Force of the Diocese
of West Texas, Hall Hammond, Chair
1-210-824-5387

Texas Impact – www.texasimpact.org/environment

Earth Day Network – www.earthday.org

World Resources Institute – www.wri.org

Jane Goodall’s “Roots and Shoots
www.rootsandshoots.org

Environmental Ministries of the Episcopal Church
www.dfms.org/119103_ENG_HTM.

  “It is easy to be overwhelmed by the massive
     problems or mismanagement of creation
      has caused.  Yet it does not belong to our
       Christian identity to become paralyzed.
         Rather, this knowledge spurs us to little deeds
          of creation care that add up to millions of
        small, yet significant, acts that
       restore the earth."

 

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