Sustainable Living
I have the pleasure of serving the children this week with Jeff and Carol Morgan. Let me just say that these jokers do not mess around. You want to find out about how to create sustainable living for your own family, spend 1 hour with Jeff and Carol and you will be dreaming. I have been wanting to have an in-home kitchen composter for years now. I have done online research and havn’t really found what I thought would work for our family.
In about 5 minutes Jeff shared with me a cheap, simple and effective way of composting all kitchen waste. I can’t wait to start when we get home. I have been thinking through now for some time, how to begin developing sustainable living. How does a typical suburban family pull this off, practically? I don’t even own any land, except about 2 feet around 2 sides of our town home in a planned development. Can I do this with no land? Well, yes, and people all over the world with very little space are doing it and doing it well.
As Christians, it is something that we need to seriously look at. Recycling, using less consumable paper products like paper plates etc. are important issues that I don’t think most people think about. I guess it depends on your theology and your exposure to the rest of the world. Are we not as Christians to be renewing this world, as we wait for The Father to bring about total renewal? I tell you what, no one in Peru uses paper plates or paper towels. You even have to bring your own TP when you are out and about, and it isn’t necessarily a conservation thing it is a cost thing.
Anyway, my mind is churning with thoughts about this, but here is another helpful resource that may help you just start thinking. Jeff told me about ECHOa ministry in SW Florida that is fascinating. I plan to take the kids over for a homeschool field trip. I see earth boxes (homemade) or maybe square foot gardening in our homeschooling future. I may not live on a farm, but darn it I am going to have a garden.
