Tag: Earth Day

Planet Vs Plastics

Dear Lord, Forgive us for contaminating this world. Help us to find our way forward to respect, protect and live together as one on this planet. This image is from our own home city. We are shamed.

This Earth Day find your way to protect and renew our environment and global health. Consider signing the Global Plastics Treaty now. This link will take you there.

Working together, the world can:

• Support a highly ambitious Global Plastic Treaty that binds all to the same standards;
• Achieve 60% of reduction of all fossil fuel-based plastic production by 2040;
• Require producers and retailers of plastics to be liable for the cost of any environmental or health-related damages in accordance with the “producer pays” principle;
• Encourage public and private sector investments in innovation to replace all fossil fuel-based plastics;
• Ban all plastic-related tobacco products including, but not limited to tobacco filters and e-cigarettes;
• Ban the export of plastic waste;
• End the incineration of plastic waste;
• Support innovative solutions and alternatives to plastic in all sectors;
• Fully-financed education and public awareness campaigns to inform the public about reasons and strategies for ending plastic pollution.

Photographs for creative contemplation on Earth Day

Dear Mother Earth, gift of God, we thank you,
for you are our life, our breath and our blood.
You bear us in your arms and receive us at our death,
and will never refuse us.
The rolling sea in our heart, the mountains in our bones,
the wind in our lungs, the flowing rivers in our blood,
the many-splendored creatures living within us
all sing praise to God and remind us we are of you.

Dear Mother Earth, we confess:
though the forest and desert are our own flesh
we have wounded you,
we have treated you selfishly, as “the least of these.”
We have betrayed our oneness
with the grasses and the hawk, the beetle and the whale.
Even as we use you, we repent;
even as we torture you you forgive us.

Dear Mother of Life,
as you renew the earth in spring, restore our mercy;
return us to our place in the great circle of life;
give us the generosity of your fields,
the humility and wisdom of your small creatures.

Dear Mother God, hear our praise and our confession,
and renew in us the beauty of the earth,
for the sake of all life. Amen.

From a prayer by Steve Garnaas-Holmes, Unfolding Light

At Craigsbank we are always grateful for the commitment of our tiny but mighty Eco Group who do so much. They engage, they plant, they educate, they nourish, they protest and they encourage. They are an example to us all.