If you care about the earth we live on, start by ditching plastic bags. Why? They don’t actually biodegrade. Sure, they disintegrate into smaller and smaller bits, but they are still there and they are still plastic. Check this out: Buying reusable fabric bags to bring home your groceries is a relatively simple first step….
Care of Creation is an organization that believes that missions and care for God’s creation belong together. This organization was started by Edward Jones, author of Our Father’s World (which I finished reading a couple of days ago though I reviewed it here last Monday), in 2005, and currently works mainly in Kenya. Their stated…
Our Father’s World: Mobilizing the Church to Care for Creation By Edward R Brown 2006, 2008 It seems a lot of times Christians aren’t interested in environmental issues. It’s like we believe that God made the earth for us, handed it over, and we can do what we like with it. As parents, do we…
Sometimes in my country living mode I forget that not everyone has the opportunity to garden and grow some of their own food. Many people in cities–even in smallish towns!–live in apartments, basement suites, or townhouses with no yard at all. Add in all the other renters who don’t have the freedom to dig up…
To me, this seems like a no-brainer. For a bag of flour to say that it is ‘Whole Wheat Flour’ it needs to contain the whole kernel of wheat. What else could it possibly mean? According to Wikipedia here (part way down the page) it can mean this in Canada: “It is legal to advertise…
I’m really blessed to live in an area where a wide variety of foods grow well, and it’s sad that for many years the link between the farmer/orchardist and the consumer was broken. Certainly, we grew the food, but then it was sent off to some big company for processing. In the community, we went…