Green Tips

Each month's Green Tips are researched and written by members of congregations in our synods. Use them in bulletins, on social media, and more!

August 2024- Regulating the Use of Pesticides on Fruits and Vegetables

July 2024- Managing Your Garden and Landscape: Our Planet and Pollinators Depend on it

May/June 2024- Changing Our Food and Farming Systems: Making Peace with Nature

April 2024- Wetlands, Aquifers, Rivers, Lakes and Oceans: What's In Our Water?

March 2024- Reaching net-zero emissions by 2050

February 2024- How to Spot the Misleading Advertising Labeling an Item or Action as Eco-friendly or Sustainable (Greenwashing)

January 2024- The Problem of Plastic Waste

December 2023- Reversing Biodiversity Collapse and Slowing Climate Change: In Saving the Earth, We Save Ourselves

November 2023- Conserving and Restoring Healthy Forests

October 2023- "What Do Mega-Wildfires Worldwide Tell Us About the Climate Crisis?"

September 2023- "What Do We Owe Our Children? A Livable Climate, a Life-Giving Earth"

August 2023- Caring For Our Earth, Our Common Home: Advancing Cleaner Technologies to Protect Public Health and the Planet

July 2023- Caring for Our Earth, Our Common Home: A Way to Love Both God and Our Neighbor

June 2023- The Products We Buy: Vote with your Dollars to Help Create a Set of Values that are Good for You and the Planet

May 2023- The Products We Buy: Helping the Pollinators We Depend on for Survival Thrive in Our Fields, Yards and Gardens

April 2023- The Products We Buy: Facing the Challenges of Our Modern, Industrialized, Chemically-driven System

March 2023- Figuring Out Climate Change: Global Warming is Making the Planet (including Minnesota) Hotter, Wetter and Drier