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