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• Non-Toxic Home Cleaning Recipes

  From cleaning the toilet to making your own air fresheners, this complete guide provides recipes for household cleaning -- top to bottom!

Blessed Earth Resources

• Energy Audit Worksheet

  A simple form to determine just what you or your family’s environmental “weight” is. You’ll need to gather a few records together, such as annual electricity use, heating oil purchased, and the average miles per gallon reported for each of your cars. There is also a sample audit included.

• 50 Quick Tips for Going Green

  If you think going green takes a lot of time or money, then this document is for you. These quick steps are not only cost-efficient, but will save time, money and the planet!

• Sustainable Lifestyle Covenant

  This straight-forward worksheet gets you started thinking about what you can do today, this week, this month and this year. Share your e-mail address with us so we can hold you accountable!

• Non-Toxic Home Cleaning Recipes

  From cleaning the toilet to making your own air fresheners, this complete guide provides recipes for household cleaning -- top to bottom!

• Building Bridges

  The Brass Tacks: What we do, and why we do it.

• The Blessed Earth Story

  This document summarizes the Sleeth family's testimony, as well as a brief description about the work of Blessed Earth. Good for church planning meetings or general information.

• Record of Speaking Engagements

  We have shared the creation care message many times throughout the United States over the last few years. Enjoy this record of all the places God has taken us.

Campus Outreach

• Renewal: Students Caring for Creation

  Renewal is a Christ-centered creation care network for students that focuses on living in right relationship with God.

• Creation Care at Houghton College

  After a year-long partnership with Blessed Earth, Houghton College offers this Web portal stocked with resources, a report on their cutting-edge creation care efforts and more.

• Educational Grant Opportunities

  Want to green up your classroom but don't have enough funding? These great opportunities can help you get started.

• Financing Sustainability on Campus

  Published by the National Association of College and University Business Officers, this comprehensive guide provides the handbook to creative green strategies for green campuses.

• Campus Green Builder

  Campus Green Builder assists a variety of campuses in building green facilities on their campuses.

• Campus Sustainability Discussion Forums

  Hosted by the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE), these forums provide a platform for addressing sustainability issues in the college and university settings.

• Creation Care Study Program

  The Creation Care Study program is a high-caliber academic semester abroad connecting Christian faith with the most complex, urgent global issues of the coming decades.

• Au Sable Institute

  Au Sable Institute of Environmental Studies provides university-level courses with transferable credits to over 50 colleges and universities, the framework and services for sustainable community-building, environmental education and restoration for school children and adults, facilities for community and environmental organizations, community and regional conferences and retreats, and outreach services.

Church Outreach

• Denominational Statements on Creation Care

  Official doctrinal statements from the major Christian denominations regarding the care of creation.

• ENERGY STAR: Guide for Congregations

  Use ENERGY STAR's well-researched suggestions for saving energy in this special site specifically tailored to church needs.

• Mars Hill Church's 'God Is Green' Sermon Series

  Mars Hill Church in Grand Rapids, MI, provided its congregants with a sermon series, God Is Green, in 2007. The series is now downloadable. Matthew Sleeth participated as one of the speakers.

• Worship Materials from the Evangelical Environmental Network

  The resources provided here provide outlines of services, serm ons, prayers and readings, and children's lessons.

• Eco-Management of Church Facilities

  This is a simple guide for managing a church's facilities from an ecological standpoint. Provided by Earth Care, Inc.

• Web of Creation: Getting Started

  Here you will find a blueprint for getting your church solidly engaged in the care for creation.

Creation Care Scripture & Inspirational Quotes

• Creation Care Quotes Throughout the Ages

  This comprehensive collection of quotes from history's most renowned leaders of the Christian faith offers inspiration, as well as evidence of the Church's long history of concern about creation.

• Creation Care Themes in Scripture

  This straightforward guide introduces the ten prevailing creation care themes found throughout the scriptures.

• Krueger's Full Guide to Creation Care Quotes

  Thanks to the outstanding scholarship and research of Fred Krueger, his full guide to creation care quotes traces the history of Christian leaders who have advocated protecting the earth.

General Interest