GREEN Team

"Our mission is to live as a faith community in covenant with God and with each other, as stewards of creation, using natural resources responsibly and helping others to do the same."

The Ten Commitments

Reduce your carbon footprint by 10% in the next year.

Guidelines are available at our resource table in the atrium Sunday mornings.
There is a Carbon Calculator at the Belmont Green Team site (www.belmontgreenteam.org).

Perform 10 hours of volunteer work.

Hands On Nashville ( www.hon@hon.org 615-298-1108)

Earth Matters (www.earthmattersnetworks.com 615-252-6953 (Sizwe Herring)

Plant 10 trees or have 10 trees planted in your name in a reforestation project. A $10.00 membership in the Arbor Day Foundation (www.arborday.org) gives you 10 free trees. Two scholarships available: contact Sally Wingate

Compost!

There are many ways to get started – from a simple hole in the ground to a ready-made bin.

EarthMatters offers one made from wooden pallets, which they will deliver to you, plus help you decide a location, set it up, and teach you how to use it. Two scholarships available: contact Sally Wingate

Eat 10 dinners a month using only plants – no meat!

Change 10 incandescent bulbs over to compact fluorescent bulbs.

Read one of the many books on the environment from our resource table, or the library.

Talk to 10 people in the next 10 months about the critical importance of “saving our planet.”

Cancel unwanted mail-order catalogs and stop receiving junk mail. (go for 10!) Sites like these may help: www.catalogchoice.org,www.41pounds.org, www.ecocycle.org/junkmail

Make a list of 10 new ways to reduce/reuse/recycle