Article 8: Prthvi Seva Guide
by Prthvi Seva Guide team & CommUnity
Action to Implement
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🌱 August 2022: This month, read the Prthvi Seva Guide & commit to at least one practice to make your center/community more sustainable.
Past Months Action to Implement
🌱 July 2022: This month, take a closer look at your travel impacts:
🔢 Estimate the carbon emissions of your mode of travel, lodging, food, and purchases
🙋🏻♀️ Commit to making one change to reduce your carbon footprint
🌱 June 2022: This month, take a closer look and identify your food waste as:
🍌 food prep scraps
🍽️ plate waste (unfinished food)
🤦🏻♀️spoiled or unwanted foo
🌱 May 2022: Implement the following actions.
- Reduce food Packaging.
- Learn about local and seasonal foods.
- Support a local grower & shop at Farmer’s Markets.
🌱 April 2022: Sahasra Vrksha Sankalpa – As a CommUnity, bring your heart and hands to the ground to plant 1000 trees together. Track and share here.
🌱 March 2022: Contribute to the health of our planet and the health of beings by doing the following:
Each day take inventory of what goes in the trash.
Identify the most common item.
Find an alternative that eliminates this waste.
🌱 February 2022: Implement the following and encourage others to follow:
- Unplug chargers when not in use
- Use the ‘Energy Saver’ mode on phones & laptops
- Use cold water for laundry & line dry
🌱 January 2022: Identify 3 actions you do that help the environment and 3 actions that harm it
August PS Workshop
CommUnity Reflections
For some years now, my family has been trying to reduce our climate footprint – reducing our trash, composting, using renewable energy, etc. But we knew we could do more.
~Meera S Nair
Our effort multiplied when we joined some friends at Chinmaya Mission Portland to form the Prthvi Sevasanga, with Vivekji’s guidance. Now we were making an impact in our community!
With the Prthvi Seva Guide, ideas and learnings from the Chinmaya Mission family are available as an easy to follow manual. With so many ideas, every one of us has something to choose from – our own sprints in this relay. It is impressive to see many kids leading the way. I also like that the Prthvi Seva Guide follows the Chinmaya Mission pledge. What better way to walk the talk than to work towards solving the most important problem of our times, as one family.