Green Practices 🌱

UniLu has a long history of living out its commitment to care for Creation.

Congregational Practices:

• Communal grieving
• ​Cultivating gratitude and practicing prayer
• Acknowledging the history and work of repair for and with indigenous peoples
• Composting
• Minimizing paper goods for sharing food
• Installing heat pump heaters in the parsonage and in 2023, in the seminar buildings
• Nurturing community
• Giving to green nonprofits 
• Giving a voluntary shuumi land tax to the Muwekma Ohlone 

Individual Practices:
Practicing the 3 Rs: Reduce, reuse, and recycle
Biking, public transportation, and electric cars
Rationing air travel
Electrifying homes
Gardening
Keeping chickens
​Birding
Supporting local economies
Eating seasonally, locally and supporting ecological farms
Veganism, vegetarianism, and regenerative and holistic animal husbandry
Regenerating native habitats
Making and mending
Reducing plastics
Responsible investing
Divesting from banks who fund fossil fuel pipelines
Protesting and participating in direct action
​Nurturing community
Volunteering with and giving to green nonprofits
Devoting one's career to care of Creation
Giving a voluntary shuumi land tax to indigenous peoples on whose land one resides
Greening death