Try out one “seven-day” practice each month, stay current with eco-news, and find support with others who are endeavoring to live more lightly and lovingly on the Earth. This autumn we’ll pick three practices, explore them individually on our own timetable, and check in with each other during a conference call each month to share and appreciate one another’s insights and good works!

Anyone, anywhere can celebrate Peace Day. It can be as simple as lighting a candle at noon, or just sitting in silent meditation. Take this opportunity to make peace in your own relationships as well as the larger conflicts of our time.

Have you heard about the Ecological Footprint? It’s a measuring tool that has been developed to estimate the area of land and ocean required to support our consumption of food, goods, services, housing, and energy and assimilate our waste. It’s currently projected that humanity is overshooting the Earth’s capacity by 50%. In other words, to sustain present levels of consumption, we would need: 1.50 earths.

Oh my goodness – way to go Beth Terry!

The average American generates about 100 pounds of plastic waste a year. So did Beth Terry, until she read an article about plastic pollution in the oceans and saw a photograph of a dead albatross chick carcass filled with plastic products. Making the connection that her actions were harming a creature she never knew existed, she resolved to live a plastic free life.

I was recently introduced to Jane Jacobs and her thoughts about urban living. She passed away a few years ago at a ripe age of 89 years, a true-blue reformer advocating for some 40 years that communities required connection in their design.

Scanning through my morning news sources the other day I came across a couple new ideas for living more green – an eco-hotel and baby-clothing-rental service.