Ecological Health

GPRC’s Twelve Components of Ecological Health:

1. Create Safe Places for people and wildlife; work to protect, restore and connect wildlands.
2. Protect, teach and serve children. Ensure interaction with Nature, making sure youth learn and understand that Nature is not made up of objects but is a community of living beings and interwoven relationships that includes us.
3. Understand consequences of actions; accept personal responsibility.
4. Strive to cause less pain to others, whether it is to people, animals, yourself or Earth.
5. Embrace vitality. Eat clean and low on the food chain (preferably plant-based), reject factory farming, reduce your carbon footprint, exercise daily, drink at least half a gallon of pure water each day.
6. Embrace earned confidence and humility; reject arrogance, waste, violence, hatred and ugliness.
7. Live like a watershed; become an ecosystem participant wherever you live.
8. Embrace physical work; fear no mental challenge (don’t be taken for a fool because of willful ignorance, such as with “greenwashing”); connect meaningfully within your community.
9. Fight Environmental Injustice pollution as the act of violence it is.
10. Seek peace and health-based solutions over endless conflict; claim the same over endless despair.
11. Give thanks; get outdoors with our living, breathing Earth.
12. Seek silence, wisdom, deeper thought and personal growth for the rest of your life.

Visit Bush Foundation, a GPRC funder and great supporter of Ecological Health

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