YOUR FOOTPRINT

Would you like to help your congregation measure its carbon footprint? Interfaith Power and Light is pleased to share with you our brand new carbon footprint calculator designed specifically for congregations and congregants. It allows you to input basic information about energy use, and then provides a total "footprint" in pounds of carbon and acres of land. This tool will help your congregation find out where its emissions are coming from and identify steps you can take to significantly reduce energy use. Then, you will be on the path toward saving money and saving Creation at the same time. To further entice you to participate, we are offering $10,000 in cash prizes to congregations that make the most progress in shrinking their footprints. But to enter the contest, you must measure your footprint before the end of the year. Visit CoolCongregations.com today to measure your footprint.

www.actioncenter.org

TINA FEY - Action Center to end world hunger. Tina Fey has a great video on Utube - It will be added to the blog this week. Tina's appeal - "Let's work together to make hunger a thing of the past. Let that next step start with you." Please contact newsletter@merycorps.org

Goals 2008

OUR VISION: The Unity EarthCare International Team co-creates a spiritual consciousness that manifests as loving co-existence with all creation and care for our Earth home. OUR MISSION: The Unity EarthCare International Team supports the Association of Unity Churches International in fostering the awareness of our spiritual oneness with our Earth home and promoting active care of creation.

Unity Churches International Earthcare Team is committed to sharing information and growing Earthcare through Unity worldwide, using the media and events.

2008 SPIRITUAL ACTION GOALS.

WE BELIEVE… We believe in the power of Life. It expresses itself in myriad ways and is sacred in all forms. Our unity and interdependence evidences itself as the diversity of life, intelligence, and substance. We seek to understand divine design. Immersed in the growing consciousness of our true nature, we align our desires, actions, systems, and vision with the principles of universal law.Ideas of entitlement, domination, profiteering, exploitation, and hierarchy are now erased from human consciousness. We atone for the senseless neglect, misuse, and abuse of our mother earth and her majestic inhabitants. Ideas and ideals of collaboration, innovation, sacred awareness, and discernment replace old ways of being as we collectively establish dominion over obsolete, limited,and myopic perspectives. As ambassadors of wisdom, we steward our earth and all of its living inhabitants. With spiritual integrity, we embody compassion acknowledging that animals are worthy of each dignity we seek for ourselves. From the core of the earth to the expanse of our atmosphere, polar regions to national parks, waterways to farmlands, marketplace to dining table, we consciously create a world that works for all. Harmony is our intention, wisdom our currency, discernment our path, integrity our foundation, and unity our inheritance. We immerse our word in gratitude as we release it unto law. 2008 Spiritual Action Goal: To actualize the stewardship and well-being of our sacred Earth and it’s diverse inhabitants through our collective vision of a new consciousness.

Goals for Earthcare in Unity.

Dear friends, It occurred to me that Kym asked us to think about our goals for EarthCare in Unity. Well, the Daily Word prayer of Monday, August 25, 2008, touched my heart. Again, "My loving heart and powerful mind direct me in caring ways toward all life." The Institute knows that EarthCare and our interests are organic and thriving. My goal is to add an EarthCare affirmation to the five currently listed as monthly affirmations. I believe this is possible as a Daily Word World Peace affirmation has been a happy addition. With God, all things are possible. Loving Grace, Ron.

The new artwork......

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