Ending the exploitation of people and of the earth and its resources.

not sure this is the main thing I'm about...

But that is a negative statement, and what we need is positive statements about what that looks like. Instead of "what should we seek to avoid?" let's try "what can we do? how can we act? how can we mold ourselves into better stewards of the earth and into better brothers and sisters to each other?

To that end, the following:

• environmental justice
• economic justice
• sustainable development
• a fundamental re-thinking of what the Good Life is
• conservation
• sustainability
• human kindness
• peacemaking
• shalom
• feeding the hungry
• caring for the vulnerable
• trees
• preservation
• nature education
• community gardens
• eliminating food deserts
  • urban farming
  • community sustainability
  • food security
  • building social capital
• music
• sharing what I'm passionate about with others
• creating community
• ending imperialism
  • looking at the media with a critical eye
  • humanizing the other
  • buying local
  • reading
• refusing to buy into capitalism
  • making and building things
  • knitting
  • sewing
  • learning to fix things
  • handicrafts
  • giving
  • barter economies - dane county timebank
  • clothes swaps and used clothing
• self-sufficiency
• handmade houses
• subsistence
• frugality
• art
• living with less electricity, instead of wind turbines instead of mountaintop-removal-mined coal
  • turning off the lights for goodness' sake
  • building stuff with more natural light
  • changing stupid rules about keeping lights on in stairwells when a building is closed
  • at least lobbying for the shutting down of coal-fired power plants and for the judicious installation of wind turbines
• cultivating a sense of belonging in ourselves - to people and to place
• resisting cynicism
  • praying
  • caring for each other
  • caring for myself
  • finding hope
  • laughing
  • recognizing that change comes slowly
• speaking truth to power
• liberation
• solidarity
• planting things
• humanity
• putting human needs before the economy ("When you have to classify the very capacity of the Earth to support life as an 'externality,' then it is time to rethink your theory." -Herman Daly, who, though a sometime World Banker, has some cred as an ecological economist)
• cultivating a culture of care for others and for the land
• holding corporations responsible for their corporate asses
• farmer's markets
• love
• stories
• treading lightly on the earth
• carving wildlands out of human artifacts
• biking instead of driving
• designing walkable cities
• parks
• trails
• trying to live my life in a sustainable way, if not with the hope that others will do the same or that my small actions will make a difference on a global scale, then at least as a feasibility study or a way of living out my faith
• seeking the face of God in others
• seeking to show God's love to others