Our church greenfaith ministry is fully based around the biggest carbon foot print reducing plant CANNABIS,  If every citizen grew just a couple plants carbon footprints would be just a myth, no punn intended.

Seriously, every hippyish church and many main stream churches are finaly losing their blind faith for compiling and learning a simple, from the earth lifestyle is the way!

JUST GOOGLE GREEN FAITH!

 The Sabbath should be a Holy Day of Carpooling!

Whatever your faith (Christian, Judaism, Islam, etc.) why drive alone to your House of Worship when you can carpool? Meet members of your congregation, talk about your week, be a community - and help save our plant! (MORE: http://rewinn.blogspot.com/2009/10/holy-day-of-carpooling.html )

Let me also call to your attention GreenEvangelicals at http://twitter.com/GEvangelicals

"A diet that can lead to heart attacks, cancer, and numerous other diseases cannot be a natural diet," writes Keith Akers in A Vegetarian Sourcebook.  "A diet that pillages our resources of land, water, forests, and energy cannot be a natural diet.  A diet that causes the unnecessary suffering and death of billions of animals each year cannot be a natural diet."

A pamphlet put out by Compassion Over Killing says raising animals for food is one of the leading causes of both pollution and resource depletion today.  According to a recent United Nations report, "Livestock's Long Shadow," raising chickens, turkeys, pigs, and other animals for food causes more greenhouse gas emissions than all the cars, trucks and other forms of transportation combined.  Researchers from the University of Chicago similarly concluded that a vegetarian diet is the most energy efficient, and the average American does more to reduce global warming emissions by not eating animal products than by switching to a hybrid car.

A 2007 journal published by the American Dietetic Association found "meat protein production required 26 times more water than vegetable protein on rain-fed lands."  The journal further states that dieticians "can encourage eating that is both healthful and conserving of soil, water, and energy by emphasizing plant sources of protein and foods that have been produced with fewer agricultural inputs."

"Livestock are one of the most significant contributors to today's most serious environmental problems.  Urgent action is required to remedy the situation." 

---Union Nations' Food and Agriculture Association

A single dairy cow produces approximately 120 pounds of wet manure per day, which is equivalent to that of 20 to 40 humans.

70% of the grain grown and 50% of the water consumed in the U.S. are used by the meat industry.  (Audubon Society)

On average 990 liters of water are required to produce one liter of milk.  (United Nations)

Over 260 million acres of U.S. forest have been cleared to grow grain for livestock.  (Greenpeace)

It takes nearly one gallon of fossil fuel and 5,200 gallons of water to produce just one pound of conventionally fed beef.  (Mother Jones)

Farmed animals produce an estimated 1.4 billion tons of fecal waste each year in the U.S.  Much of this untreated waste pollutes the land and water.

Some discussion of the cruelty of modern factory farming is is necessary here. Most Americans are still under the mistaken impression that animals are raised on idyllic farms with sunshine, fresh air, and open spaces, and are killed humanely, after a pleasant life. The reality, however, is quite different. 
 
A contermporary Benedictine monk, Brother David Steindl-Rast, wrote in Harmony: Voices for a Just Future, a peace and justice periodical, in 1995, that "...the survival of our planet depends on our sense of belonging--to all other humans, to dolphins caught in dragnets, to pigs and chickens and calves raised in animal concentration camps, to redwoods and rainforests, to kelp beds in our oceans, and to the ozone layer." 
 
In a sermon preached in York Minster, September 28, 1986, John Austin Baker, the Bishop of Salisbury, England, attacked factory farming; choosing as his example, the treatment of chickens.
 
"Is there any credit balance for the battery hen, denied almost all natural functioning, all normal environment, lapsing steadily into deformity and disease, for the whole of her existence? he asked. "It is in the battery shed and the broiler house, not in the wild, that we find the true parallel to Auschwitz. Auschwitz is a purely human invention." 
 
On another occasion, Bishop Baker taught: "By far the most  important duty of all Christians in the cause of animal welfare is to cultivate this capacity to see; to see things with the heart of God, and so to suffer with other creatures." 
 
On World Prayer Day for Animals, October 4, 1986, Bishop Baker preached against indifference to animal pain and lauded the animal welfare movement: 
 
"To shut your mind, heart, imagination to the sufferings of others is to begin to slowly but inexorably to die. It is to cease by inches from being human, to become in the end 
capable of nothing generous or unselfish--or sometimes capable of anything, however terrible. You in the animal welfare movement are among those who may yet save our society from becoming spiritually deaf, blind and dead, and so from the doom that will justly follow." 
 
According to Bishop Baker: "...Rights, whether animal or human, have only one sure foundation: that God loves us all and rejoices in us all. We humans are called to share 
with God in fulfilling the work of love towards all creatures... the true glory of the strong is to give themselves for the cherishing of the weak."    

The realization that meat is an unnecessary luxury, resulting in inequities in the world's food
supply, has prompted religious leaders in different denominations to call on their members to abstain from meat. 
 
Paul Moore, Jr., the Episcopal bishop of the Diocese of New York, made such an appeal in a November 1974 pastoral letter, calling for the observance of "meatless Wednedays." A similar appeal had been issued earlier by Roman Catholic Cardinal Cooke of New York. The Reverend Eugene Carson Blake, former head of the World Council of Churches, and founder of Bread for the World, has encouraged everyone in his anti-hunger organization to abstain from eating meat on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. 
 
Ronald J. Sider of Evangelicals for Social Action pointed out in his 1977 book, Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger, that 220 million Americans were consuming enough grain (largely because of the high consumption of grain fed to livestock) to feed over one billion people in the poorer countries. 
 
Father Thomas Berry, a Catholic priest, author, and founder of the Riverdale Center for Religious Research in New York, wrote in 1987 that "Vegetarianism is a way of life that we should all move toward for economic survival, physical well-being, and spiritual integrity."

  The number of animals killed for food in the United States is 70 times larger than the number of animals killed in laboratories, 30 times larger than the number killed by hunters and trappers, and 500 times larger than the number of animals killed in animal pounds.
“If anyone wants to save the planet,” says Paul McCartney in a PETA interview, “all they have to do is stop eating meat. That’s the single most important thing you could do. It’s staggering when you think about it. Vegetarianism takes care of so many things in one shot: ecology, famine, cruelty. Let’s do it! Linda was right.  Going veggie is the single best idea for the new century.”

This is indeed a very hopeful message.  It should be a priority for religious institutions to set the precedent of environmental improvement and sustainability.  We must work to enhance our natural environment.  Collectively, anything is possible.  If there are enough people on board for this positive change, the only possible outcome is success.

A quick word to the editor:

The correct spelling of "Daoism" is Taoism, with a T.

Also, I doubt anyone is making plans to 'plane' trees. (See above, second to last paragraph--"tree-planing campaigns.") I believe you meant to say 'planting.'