UniLu has a long history of living out its commitment to care for Creation... 🌱
Congregational Practices:
Individual 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