Here’s the video we watched on Sunday of Jeanette in Bolivia. Continue to pray for her and the volunteer work she is doing there at an orphanage for four months. If you want to contribute to the Christmas project (we are sending money to the orphanage she is working at in order for them to have gifts, etc.) please drop us a line.

Our senior’s group contributed to this month’s art exhibit. Here’s a video they made of the process. Go senior’s!

It’s certainly not breaking news that we are having an increasingly detrimental impact on our environment – our planet, our home.  We all know how important it is to care for the earth by changing our lifestyles to lessen our impact.  However, finding simple ways to do this can feel overwhelming at times.

The No Impact Project is an international, environmental, nonprofit project designed to do just that: help us make changes which will lower our environmental impact and better our communities through our daily actions.

Following Colin Beavan and his family’s year-long experiment of living a zero-waste lifestyle in New York City, the No Impact Project was created. 

Online, you’ll find a week-long how-to guide to lessen your impact, and create a better environment.  You can work through the ‘how-to manual’ any week, but starting November 15 there’s going to be a focused week-long challenge.  Join with others around the world working to lessen our impact on the world!

Please use the comments section to share with us all how your challenges are going, new ideas you stumble upon, and reflections from a week  (or more?) of living with No Impact.

Individually, we really can affect environmental, political and cultural change.

We have so much stuff.  So.much.stuff.  Too much stuff?

What if … instead of accumulating more and more stuff that we might only use occasionally, we shared it?  Once-a-year-camping-trip-tents, a drill to hang one piece of art, a giant pot for a fruit canning experiment, specialized tools, bicycles, cars, time, skills, etc, etc, etc. 

We’ve created a simple way to do just that … share our stuff!  If you have anything that you’d like to lend or borrow, check out the share it board – it’s above the milk’n’sugar station at the coffee house.

Fill out a simple card & let us all know what you’d like to borrow or share with others!  Items, time, skills, etc.
 
In this simple way, we’re hopeful that this experiment will help us all share more and consume less.  Share it.

The Freeway is part of an initiative called the “Good Food Box.” Every month we order boxes of fresh fruit and vegetables from a great organization, called Food Share, for folks in our community. Here’s what the Food Share website says about the Good Food Box initiative:

The Good Food Box makes top-quality, fresh food available in a way that does not stigmatize people, fosters community development and promotes healthy eating.

The Good Food Boxes that we order cost $15 each and provide approximately $30-$40 dollars worth of produce. Not too shabby. If you want more information, drop us a line.

( Good Food Box )