Green Living Stores

Looking for Tee Shirts that expresses your commitment to the environment?  www.NaturalOrganicClothes.com has a selection of tee shirts that is Enviromentally Friendly and Fair Trade produced that will help you get the word out that going Green is the thing.  There is over twenty-four shirts printed with logos that serve your need for earth friendly statements.  Also there is a selection of shirts that is made from Bamboo, Organic Cotton, and Soy.  You can even find a Tee Shirt made from recycled soda bottles.

Live abundantly by choosing to Live Green.  Choosing between quantity and quality by using good stewardship of your resources will always create personal abundance in your life.  As you purchase your goods and services if you take the time to consider how your choices improve your environment and health you are creating abundance for yourself and your family.  The next obvious benefit is the reduction of waste in your life, which adds to the cycle of abundance.  Taking the time to think (meditate) on what your needs and wants are and how to acquire the resources to meet them is a positive step in living green.  You no longer need to accept what life hands you; you take the time as a part of your daily routine to plan and decide what is best for you.  That in turn provides with mental exercise to improve your mental health.  Living Green is not just existing to robot through your days and life; it a resource to open you up to how to live each day with joy and peace that is the birthright of every soul in creation.  

Being Green is not only a benefit to you personally it is Stewardship of your environment.  No matter what your spiritual philosophy is, you realize that choosing carefully the goods and services you use is part of how you express your belief system.  The following is quoted from the First Baptist Church bulletin in Plano, Texas.

From the Pastor…
What are all those blue trashcans?  Is the roof leaking everywhere?”  Thanks for asking!  The Blue bins are for recycling-and no, the roof is not leaking.

The appearance of the recycling containers coincides with this morning’s sermon, “Serving God in His World,” which I’ve subtitled “Going Green without Worshiping the Earth!”  We are stewards of God’s creation; we are His partners in creation, reconciliation, and redemption.

The blue recycling containers are the most visible sign of some adjustments we’ve been making for a number of months.  All of the changes provide opportunity for us to be more effective stewards of God’s gifts-specifically natural resources.  The blue bins enable us to recycle all paper, cardboard, glass, tin, aluminum, and all kinds of plastic-except Styrofoam.  We have begun phasing in paper products that are made from 100% recycled material; in the next month, Styrofoam will begin to disappear from the campus as we replace current inventory with biodegradable products.

For nearly a year, we have used only biodegradable cleaning products.  Last month, each of the 144 incandescent bulbs (40 watts) in the Worship Center was replaced with 8 watt CFLs which produce more light and last twice as long.  (They will also save more than 4600 watts of electricity used every hour they are illuminated.)   Programmable thermostats wherever possible, regular maintenance, and monthly filter changes mean we use less energy and save money as we keep the facilities comfortable.

Stewardship means managing what God entrusts to us.  It also makes sense (cents?).  Figure on this one:  Baylor University pays one company to dispose of their garbage; another company pays them to collect their recyclable material.  Which do they want to encourage?

It might not be easy being green, but I’m proud to be your pastor,

Dr. Jerry Carlisle, Senior Pastor

Green Living is the sourcing products and services that contribute to the health of our selves and our personal spaces. This creation of health in turn creates environmental and physical health for our selves and our communities.  The services and products either can make use of materials that have been recycled or they can be created from healthy products that are non toxic and / or biodegradable.  Careful choosing of what we consume in turn reduces toxins caused by the products and services we use and creates a Green Living environment that increases our quality of living.  Quality of living is the end game for all our Green Living choices.  Simple daily choices such as what clothing we decide to wear (www.NaturalOrganicClothes.com), what we decide to eat or how we build our homes.  The end result of living in an eco friendly manner is that we gain personally and become social stewards of the world community resources.