Be part of the Food Scraps Collection project, a collaborative effort of the Town of Bethlehem and St. Thomas Creation Care Team with assistance from Syracuse University. Promote zero waste and create useable compost for the town’s citizens. It’s an “easy opportunity” to Care for Creation. There are a few spots left in the first Food Scraps Collection cohort. Follow this link to sign up: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10c0944afae2ea5ffc34-stthomas#/ Participants will be contacted with the date and time for a short Food Scraps Collection education session and an official start date for the program

Protecting your pet from fleas or ticks this summer? Treat the disposal of these products as the hazardous waste they are. Don’t put them in the garbage or down the drain.

Plastic Free July is a global movement encouraging people to take the challenge to protect the environment by going plastic-free in July.

You’re invited to join Capital Region Interfaith Creation Care Coalition and Riverkeeper May 6, 11 am to 2 pm for a Hudson River shoreline clean-up at Corning Preserve Riverfront Park in Albany. This is part of the 12th Annual Riverkeeper Sweep, a day of service for the river and its tributaries. Help keep the river system clean, for people and wildlife.

Our Creation Care Team, thanks all of our friends from our local Sister Parishes, Christ the King and St. Matthews who joined our Pilgrimage to the Navajo Nation with Sr. Larraine Lauter, Director of Water with Blessings and neighbors of the Navajo Nation. We encountered the beauty of the Western Four Corners of the Navajo Nation and heard witness testimony from Navajo women on their experience with climate change, the stripping of the earth caused by uranium mines and the devastation that remains. They gave witness to the lack of water not only for daily use but the lack of water for livestock, farming and herbs needed for healing. Many to this day live without what many of us may take for granted; running water or electricity even though power lines run over head on their property. Reminder for all of us to return to what God has created us to be...not simply caretakers of Creation rather work together to restore our Relationship with Creation and our Creator. We invite you to read the book Ladder to the Light, by Steven Charleston, leading voice of justice for Indigenous Peoples, the environment and spiritual renewal in North America. Together may we climb the Ladder to the Light.

Come to the free Repair Café with your broken lamps, tools and lawnmowers, torn jeans or sweaters, broken teacups or necklaces or chairs, computers, gardening questions, and your knives to be sharpened. The Café will be at Hoags Corner Firehouse, Sept. 17, 10-2 pm. (7237 NY-66, East Nassau). Keep stuff out of the landfill, and go home happy. Sign up in advance and get more information from Wendy at  [email protected], (518) 526-5594‬.

Beach or the mountains? You can care for creation anywhere your vacation takes you.

Fishing or camping this summer? Follow these tips to care for creation while you enjoy being outdoors.

Capital Region Interfaith Creation Care (CRICC) offers resources and local support to care for creation.

Starting with this Fourth of July, consider challenging yourself to a summer of zero waste celebrations. It will take a little planning, but it can be fun and a great way to form habits that protect creation.