to do list for good ecology

1. Action Plan
 Personal Level.
 Live simple life and close to nature
 Stress vegetarian diet
 Eco-friendly gifts to friends and benefactors
 Wear eco-friendly clothing
 Make conscious effort to reduce the use of electricity, of fuel, of
water and food
 Have nature walks and nature meditations
 Use bicycles
 Prefer natural lemonades and drinks to varieties of expensive
Colas
 Take care of Plants
 Use less of plastics
 Write through the media on issues related to ecology

2. Community Level.
 Develop Herbal Gardens
 Organize a Plastic Free Campus
 Replace all bulbs with CFL Lamps or LED lights
 Re-use plastic bags and wrappers
 segregate and compost waste
 Vermiculture
 Organic farming
 Introduce solar cookers, solar heaters, solar electricity
 Display posters on community notice boards

3. guidelines
 More “Franciscan forests” (plots of land for herbs and
natural growth) in our communities
 Organize eco-awareness programmes in communities
 Eco-friendly picnics
 Stress vegetarian diet
 Display environment friendly “thoughts for the day”
 Encourage eco-friendly clothing
 Avoid ‘use and throw’ materials like cups, plates
 Organize ongoing reflection on eco-spirituality
 Organize special eco-liturgies, celebrate seasons of the year
 Promote simple living, eco-friendly consumption habits
and waste management in our communities.
 Make conscious effort to reduce the use of electricity, of
fuel, of water and food
 Simple decorations (no thermocol) & illuminations

4. Province/Diocese Level.
 Train personnel to give eco-spirituality workshops
 Encourage members to do IGNOU correspondence
diploma (6 months) on environmental sciences
 Make ecology an important component in formation
programme
 Promote study in formation centres on the teachings
of the Church, of modern Indian thinkers like Gandhi/
Aurobindo / Tagore regarding ‘ways of living’ in tune
with the nature
 Encourage studies of scriptures, including Indian
scriptures with regard to the eco-friendly living.
 Organize farmers co-operatives for organic farming
/marketing

5. movements
 Participate in movements to safe-guard creation and to
fight against environment pollution
 Collaborate with Govt for the construction of toilets for
the poor
 Train personnel for ecological ministry and leadership
 Introduce rituals of eco-friendliness in our daily life
and celebration and promote ecological sensitivity in
our pastoral ministry
 Form Eco-Cells in our neighbourhoods, parishes,
dioceses.
 Promote alternate use of natural resources such as solar
energy.

6. movements
 Encourage movements to safeguard, document and
research on indigenous knowledge as lived out by
tribals and other indigenous groups with regard to
knowledge-system, health care and folk medicine.
 Call upon our theologians to evolve a theology of
ecology based on our scriptures and Indian
Philosophical heritage.
 Network with other churches, NGOs and peoples’
movements in conservation and greening efforts.
 Study Government policies on SEZ and keep vigilance
on the developmental plans of the industry that
impoverish mother earth.

7. Institution Level.
 Herbal Garden
 Plastic Free Campus: avoid the use of plastic glasses for
parties
 Replace bulbs with CFL Lamps and LED lights
 Re use plastic bags and wrappers
 Organic Vegetable gardens
 Motivate students to plant gardens
 Use simple natural decorations, instead of artificial
ones
 Each year plant some new trees
 Celebrate Environmental day in schools and colleges
 No to burning of dry leaves
 Introduce nature walks and nature meditations

8.  Rainwater harvesting
 Proper disposal of garbage: segregate and compost
them
 Introduce solar cookers and power generation
 Display posters on the roads and institutions
 Caption competitions, cartoons, essays, slogans
 Discourage lawns that grow expensive varieties of
grass that require regular watering
 Use organic manure
 More :”Franciscan forests” in our communities

9.  Name the trees and display them
 Introduce environmental education in schools
 Organize awareness programmes in communities and
schools
 Start and energize eco-clubs
 Environment friendly “thoughts for the day”
 Prepare Biodiversity Register for your area
 Collect the seeds of the local trees and propagate them
 Eco-exhibition in our schools
 Encourage eco-friendly clothing

10.  Use less concrete and coal tar in our campuses
 Tying Rakhi amulets on trees on Rakshabandhan
feast
 Avoid ‘use and throw’ materials
 Organize ongoing reflection on eco-spirituality
 Encourage children to participate in eco-friendly
activities
 Institutional cultural festivals on eco-themes
 Organize eco-tours to demonstration places such
as eco parks and other experimental places.
 Organize eco-melas
 Facilitate and promote environmental research