Individuals and households make healthy and sustainable environmental choices because of commitments to holistic creation care. Understanding environmental impacts in the areas of food systems, transportation, energy consumption, chemical selections, and consumerism will inform careful decisions.

HOUSEHOLDS IN ACTION

Voluntary Gas Tax Shades Goshen Streets
A group in Goshen gathers three times a year to disperse funds they have raised by taxing themselves on every gallon of gas they buy.  Prices at the pump, they say, do not really reflect the true foreign policy or environmental costs of using gasoline.
Read about their latest project to provide shade trees for poor neighborhoods.

More stories about individuals and households caring for creation.

FEATURED RESOURCE

Living More with Less 30th Anniversary Edition Due Out November 2010

What does living more with less look like in 2010? It looks like cucumbers growing in a vacant lot in New Mexico. A voluntary gas tax group in Indiana. A composting toilet in central Pennsylvania. A zero-emissions vehicle in Ontario. A Facebook fast in the Midwest. A pastor on a bike in Manitoba. Find these stories and many others in the 30th anniversary edition of Doris Janzen Longacre’s classic handbook, Living More with Less, scheduled for release by Herald Press in November 2010.

Revised by Valerie Weaver-Zercher, with essays and chapters by a variety of Mennonites and others and an afterword by Brian McLaren, the volume celebrates the actions, large and small, of people trying to live more simply and sustainably. The volume includes two new chapters—Gardens & Farms & Markets, and Technology & Media—and a mix of entries from the 1980 book and contemporary contributors. Available for order soon from www.heraldpress.com. Leaders’ guides for small groups and Sunday School classes will also be available online.

Also visit our web-searchable Creation Care Resource Library.

SEND US YOUR STORIES

Mennonite Creation Care Network seeks examples from individuals and households that share MCCN's goals and are practicing environmental stewardship. Send stories of creation care actions your household is practicing to lukeag@goshen.edu or jenniferhs@goshen.edu.

"As servants of God, our primary vocation is to be stewards in God's household."
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Confession of Faith in a Mennonite Perspective, 1995 more

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Luke Gascho provides leadership for MCCN.
Contact him at 260-799-5869 or by email at lukeag@goshen.edu.

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