Beginning the journey to sustainable living is not hard. To help you get started, we've prepared a few suggestions to lower your impact on the earth.

While individual steps to protect and improve our environment are important, these efforts alone are not sufficient. Environmental progress requires collaborative work to address the deep-seeded and systemic problems affecting the health of the living planet. Work in our faith communities is an important part of that healing.

Some of the work includes:

• formal, multi-week courses on issues like global warming.
• occasional Sunday morning forums (at 10 a.m.) on ecology-oriented topics of current interest.
• fundraising events to purchase energy-saving items, such as energy-efficient fluorescent bulbs for the church.
• a collection system at the church for recyclable items, including printer and copier cartridges that are traded for recycled copier paper.
• the Oklahoma City "Adopt-A-Street" program by cleaning litter from nearly a mile of NE 13th St adjacent to our church property.
• a section in our church library devoted to ecology and a bulletin board for the education of church member and visitors.
• field trips to educate and demonstrate sustainable living techniques and principles.

If you would like to join us, or for a complete list of our ongoing ecology-oriented activities, or if you have additional questions regarding the Sustainable Living Organization, contact Fenton Rood.