Request for Faith and Practice Earthcare Query Suggestions

[Sayma Earthcare Action Network]

Hello,

The SAYMA Faith & Practice review committee is going to be working on queries soon and we'd like to offer them some suggestions for Earthcare queries for possible inclusion. The F&P review committee is scheduled to take this up by the end of February and will only accept suggestions that have been brought forward and minuted by monthly meetings, so I'm seeing two possibilities: 

1. Group process through the Earthcare Action Network: Reply to this message with your ideas, where they'll be seen by the members of our listserve.
   We can discuss and season our suggestions virtually, then one of us can take them to their home meeting for minuting.
2. Individual action in your home Meeting: As above, but in-person at your Monthly Meeting. 
   

If you have any thoughts on my suggestions above, please send them. If you choose to offer query suggestions to your home Meeting, please let us know so we'll have a sense of who is working on Earthcare queries. 

Gratefully,

Lisa Rose

[Sayma Earthcare Action Network]

I have started a document where we can share ideas for queries. I've pasted the text into this message, to make it easy to see what I've done so far. Click this link to add your suggestions or suggest edits to mine: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1uT0gvm0XQ_EMeJ-a2j3o29F0QIhbGtFWYTRpVIH5DQA/edit?usp=sharing

Connection and Inspiration

How often do I spend time in the natural world?

Do I take the children in my life to beautiful natural places?

How do I express my gratitude for Creation?

Lifestyle

How do my personal choices contribute to climate change?

Where does my food come from? How much of it is from local sources? How is it packaged?

When traveling in my community, how often do I walk, ride a bicycle, or take public transportation?

Do I invest money in companies whose activities support planetary health? Do any of my investments support industries who are gross polluters?

Meeting Community

How are we addressing climate change as a Meeting community?

Do we try to understand the causes of climate change and minimize our impact?

What are we doing to carry our share of the responsibility for educating people and legislators on necessary changes to ensure the viability of life on earth?

How do we hold the impact of climate change on vulnerable members of the human, animal and plant communities?