All members are invited to attend the next Board meeting for LDS Earth Stewardship. It will be held Thursday, June 13 at 8:00-9:00 Mountain Standard Time. The meeting will be held via Skype. Please contact lds.earth.stewardship@gmail.com if you are interested in attending. We have a few great activities in the works for June. Right now…
Category “Earth Stewardship”
Intro to a Series: The Air We Breathe
I grew up in Los Angeles in the 1980’s. More than a decade after the passage of the Federal Clean Air Act, LA’s worst air pollution days were behind it by the 1980’s, but smog alerts were certainly not uncommon during the hot summer days of my childhood. It’s not surprising, then, that air pollution…
Sometimes we fail. So we try again.
It’s a good thing that we don’t have to abandon our good intentions when we fail to live up to them. Sometimes we fall short of our ideals. But it does not make us hypocrites to continue to hold those ideals even when confronted with our own failure. It means we tried, and failed, but we can try again.
March is Emergency Preparedness Month
March: LDS Theme: Emergency Preparedness How much can you do without electricity? Or running water? We have long been encouraged to have emergency supplies in place so that in the event of a catastrophic emergency like an earthquake or blizzard we are able to care for ourselves and then our neighbors until we are able…
Without a Car
It’s been a week and a half since we’ve driven our car. We’ve been able to do everything we normally do. I even figured out how to load my 13-year old’s bike into the bike trailer so that when I pick him up from his voice lessons, we can ride our bikes the 3 miles…
LDS Earth Stewardship in February
Our calendar of themes and activities for the next few months will be ready soon. In the meantime, a new month has begun. We at LDS Earth Stewardship would like to host a physical get together each month. We’re thinking about things like lectures, service projects, nature hikes, and visits to the capitol. But we…
Top Ten Reasons to Be Excited About LDS Earth Stewardship in 2013
Last weekend the LDSES Board of Directors met at a retreat to discuss our goals and objectives for 2013. In light of that meeting, I’m pleased to announce the top ten reasons why you should be excited to be a member of our group in 2013. 1. LDSES is going to sponsor activities every month…
LDS Earth Stewardship Retreat
The LDS Earth Stewardship Board will be holding a planning retreat this Saturday in Salt Lake City. (The Board typically meets monthly via Skype on Thursday nights, but this retreat will be a longer affair in order to set priorities for the rest of the year and take care of other business.) In addition to…
Resolutions
I have a hard time with resolutions for the entire year; those have never worked well for me. (See related post here.) But I have already settled on my fast for Lent. I love observing Lent. It is a different kind of fasting that Mormons do every first weekend of the month. It is a…
LDSES Board Elections Results
I’m pleased to announce the results of the 2012 elections for the Board of Directors. We had 6 candidates: 3 new proposed Board members and 3 existing Board members who were up for re-election. All 6 candidates have been approved to serve on our Board with an overwhelming majority of the votes. So, we’d like…