Good Information for Being Better Stewards:

1. Reduce Global Warming - shovel instead of starting the snow blower. Added benefit is a more fit you!
2. Want to stop receiving so much junk mail? Go to www.reduce.org.
3. If all our newspaper was recycled, we could save about 250 million trees each year!
4. Stop idling your car, even at stop lights. If your car is turned off for as little as 30 seconds and then restarted it saves fuel and pollution.
5. Draining, dredging, and filling wetlands, as well as rising sea level, are destroying coastal wetlands worldwide. They filter out pollutants, buffer inland areas flood damage, and support food production for humans.
6. Grocery shoppers use nearly 40 billion bags each year. Most are only used once and recycled or thrown away. (Bring your own bag.)
7. At Prince of Peace we collect used: eye glasses, printer cartridges, cell phone batteries, cell phones, compact fluorescent bulbs, and clothing. See appropriate collection containers.
8. Buying a new car? Consider the miles per gallon to save $ and CO2 in our atmosphere.
9. Save energy and $! Use compact fluorescent light bulbs.
10. Have you tried the Light Rail? See their route and schedule at: www.metrotransit.org/rail/
11. Save $ by going online to the Metro Free Market where you can give and get used items FREE: www.twincityfreemarket.org.
12. You can use wind energy now. Call Xcel Energy 1-800-895-4999 or Dakota Electric 651-463-6212.
13. Be a smart shopper - buy durables, not disposables (reusable bottles instead of drink packs). (Buy concentrated and add water.)
14. Slow down and save - 55 mph = 21% better mileage than 65 mph!!
15. For every 17 trees planted, 250 pounds of carbon dioxide are absorbed from the air each year. Plant a tree!
16. Mulch your yard. It holds moisture, deters weeds, protects the environment.
17. Mercury fever thermometer should never be thrown away. A nerve toxin, mercury is especially dangerous when inhaled. Dispose of it as a hazardous waste.
18. What's in the street goes into our ponds and lakes - use fertilizers sparingly and sweep up driveways, sidewalks and roads.
19. More aluminum goes into beverage cans than any other product. When recycled, it can be a new can within six weeks.
20. The garbage generated in Minnesota in one year would fill four lanes of trucks, bumper-to-bumper stretching from Albert Lea to International Falls. What do you throw away?
21. Water your lawn and garden early in the morning or late at night to minimize evaporation.
22. Over 1,000 recycled milk and detergent bottles are used to make one 6-foot plastic bench.
23. Throw away an aluminum can and it will still be a can 500 years from now!
24. If every U.S. household changed their five highest-use fixtures to compact fluorescent, we would save more than $6 billion every year in energy costs.
25. In Glacier National Park, the number of glaciers has fallen from 150 to 50 since 1850. Conserve our energy.
26. Computer and TV screens should never be thrown away because they contain cathode ray tubes (CRTs). Inside each cathode ray tube lurks 2 to 8 pounds of lead. Dispose of them properly.
27. Water is a precious resource. Use it with reverence and respect during your earthly journey.
28. Recycle - it saves resources and energy.
29. Stop Global Warming - buy only "Energy Star" appliances.
30. Stop global warming - drive a more efficient car & carpool!
31. Tin cans are recycled into steel products like sign posts, car parts and construction rebar.
32. Bring those old books to a used book store instead of throwing them.
33. Are you living in the right light? Using compact fluorescent light bulbs saves you $ and the earth's energy.
34. Recycle: One glass bottle saves enough energy to light a 100 watt bulb for four hours.
35. A cloth diaper washed at home costs 3 cents per use. A disposable costs 22 cents. (The average baby will use about 10,000 diapers!)
36. The highest point in Ohio is "Mt. Rumpke" which is actually a mountain of trash at the landfill. What do you throw away?
37. Save paper - participate in "Simply Giving" and have your offering directly withdrawn.
38. Global Warming has increased the temperature just one-degree Fahrenheit -- in the last 100 years. While that may not sound like much, it's the biggest heat-gain on the planet since before the middle ages. The growing season has increased 39 days in the last 41 years.
39. Do you use bottled water? 2.5 million plastic bottles are used every hour - most are not recycled!
40. Buy Holiday Greeting cards that are made from recycled paper. Look for "post-consumer" and the recycling symbol.
41. Is Global Warming real? Just ask Minnesota moose. There were four thousand moose here in the late eighties. Today there are 250. Increased temperatures do cause a lot of extra stress on the animal.
42. Americans are 5% of the world's people and generate 40% of its waste.
43. Tired of all that expensive wrapping paper? Try these great ideas for gift wrapping alternatives: Scarves, handkerchiefs, bandannas, old posters and maps, pages from a child's coloring book.
44. A single quart of motor oil, if disposed of improperly, can contaminate up to 2 million gallons of fresh water.
45. Packaging makes up 30 percent of municipal solid waste. (Purchase items that have less packaging.)
46. Deciduous trees are taking over the Northern pine and birch forests because of the increase in temperature.
47. How many Lutherans does it take to change a light bulb? (All of them. We all need to change to compact fluorescent bulbs!)
48. Use the good glasses and cups over the holidays. Each year 25 trillion styrofoam coffee cups are thrown away!
49. Don’t throw those gift bows. Reuse them!
50. Invest in companies that provide clean energy and divest from environmentally destructive companies.
51. It is against the law to throw that Christmas tree in the garbage. Contact your hauler. Better yet, use and reuse an artificial one.
52. Get informed about how to make a good steward of God's Creation, then make a new year's resolution to do your share.
53. Buying fresh cut flowers gives off CO2 and giving a potted plant absorbs CO2! Remember this especially on Valentine's Day.
54. Anything green and growing fights global warming. Think of your garden as a shrine for global warming. Next time you go out to work in your garden say "I am going out to work in my global warning shrine!"