Value Life Itself Above All Elsea!!!
SUPPORTING PLEDGES WHICH I CAN MAKE
Save energy at home: e.g. turn off lights, use low energy bulbs, change to green energy supplies, wear jumpers and turn down thermostats, insulate and draft-proof, fit solar panels.
Reduce carbon emissions to a personally sustainable level, reckoned to be 1.1 tonnes CO2 per annum. Visit Quaker Green Action to work out how much effort you need to make.
Purchase: only what I need, locally, organic food, go vegetarian, cut down on packaging, re-pair, re-fill, re-use, re-cycle, compost food waste, buy efficient non-polluting appliances.
Travel: on foot, by bicycle, by public transport, and by car and air as little as possible.
Lifestyle: simplify my life; lead by example; inform myself more; and don't be put off by others. Increase awareness of everything around me and learn to delight in it.
Encourage Family, Friends and Workplace to do the same as me.
Lobby my Council, my MP, government and corporations.
Join a green organisation.
Participate in activities and organisations which are dedicated to promoting holistic values, practices and initiatives, as well as those trying to halt gross exploitation of natural resources, other species, vulnerable human groups and cultures.
Switch my investments to ethical causes, and review and adjust the balance of my expenditure between personal, household and wider social concerns, with regular giving. Give fully without any expectation of return.
Become my own detective (by cross-checking differing accounts and perspectives) in order to get behind 'spin' and 'double-speak', and thus establish dependable viewpoints.
Try to start the day with inner peace and contentment. Look for and see the best unfold throughout the day. Feel a connection with all Life and cultivate it through yoga, meditation, contemplation and appropriate study.
Practise letting go of attachment to the fruits of my actions, detach from 'doership'. Practise listening to my 'small inner voice' and acting on it.
Develop faith in abundance and being the cause of what happens in my life, in place of being the victim of circumstances, never having enough and needy. Cease looking to others for help. Never give up.
Constantly practise being here and now in the present moment, let go of pre-occupations with past and future events, outcomes, and 'mental soap operas'.
Consider myself great. Never belittle myself. Think the very best and I will draw the very best to myself.
Be inclusive in loving all people, living beings and things, without picking and choosing.
- Move forward into new ways, new and even uncharted waters without fear. Keep wide open. Never be wholly satisfied with my outlook on life. Changes are coming and I am part of those changes
Make a note of your choice of supporting pledge(s) and then: