Web-based:

New! Eat, Drink, and Be Wary...? Our new guide to food choices that are healthy for you and for the planet

New! World Water Woes--causes and solutions (special section on bottled water)

New! Styrofoam vs. glass at the church potluck--see how they add up!

New! Cooling Global Warming action guide. Tired of waiting on the politicians? Then don't!

New! Table Tents for use at home, camp or church: print, fold, display, educate! Titles: Trees, Food, Hunger, Consumption, Air, Species, Water, Poverty

New! Trains, planes, cars...and bikes  is NCP's guide to alternative transportation in a car-centered culture

Leader's guide for youth/junior high sessions on care for creation

Nine Commandments for earth-keeping  We're often asked for a simple guide to living more responsibly with the creation--well, here it is! And with nine rather than ten commandments, much easier to achieve! Click here for the pdf version

Trees of Life guide to rainforest ecology and preservation

Operation: Creation is a 5-session elementary-age curriculum created by NCP's Barb Holtz. Great for Vacation Bible School or other short-term learning setting. Includes stories, activities, snack ideas.

Seas and Trees is a handy shoppers guide for seafood and paper products purchases. Also can be ordered in handy bookmark size from NCP for distribution in your church or community.

While not quite as good as reducing or reusing, recycling is an important step in reducing energy and material use. See our REwards of REcycling for all the stats on the good you can do by recycling everything in sight! (Click here for pdf version of this page.)

Measure the impact on the earth of your consumption patterns by checking out How BIG is Your Footprint. How close are you to being sustainable?! Click here for youth version; click here for adult version; click here for young adult version; click here for campus version.

The Amazon will be gone in 50 years if the current pace of deforestation continues. Learn Amazon facts and find out what your role can be in preserving this critical part of the global ecosystem.

More than a fad diet, What's for Supper invites US consumers to rethink their food choices in light of the long-term health of the planet.

Click here to compare the environmental impact of cars, buses, trains, planes, bikes and boats. Guess which one is the most earth-friendly?!

Keep 400 pounds of CO2 out of the atmosphere annually by shortening your shower. Check out your total carbon footprint from home energy use and transportation at http://safeclimate.net/calculator/ Take a look at our info blurbs on global warming -- great for newsletters and campus newspapers.

Fast Food? Not so fast! Read Kylee Leland's expose of the real cost of a burger and fries.

Looking for an informative overview of how to live more responsibly with the planet? Try the Three-Step Plan.

Consuming Appetites is a one-pager comparing the consumption habits of your typical US citizen to other people in the world. Hint: we use a little more than our fair share.

Browse our selection of healthy--for you and for the planet--recipes!

Order the following materials using the order form link in the upper right:

• New! Water...here today, gone tomorrow flyer highlighting water woes facing the planet as well as water ways--things we can do to preserve this precious resource
• The Average American paints a not-so-pretty picture of the consumption patterns of the "average" US citizen. For who don't want to be average, the flip-side of this colorful flyer has loads of simple yet significant ways to live more responsibly with God's earth.
• Polar bears may join the ranks of the extinct!! Handy bookmark tells all about endangered species and what you can do to protect them.
• It's as Easy as 1, 2, 3.4, 5, 6, 7 offers seven ways for congregations to be good stewards of God's earth in their use of energy and other stewardship practices.
• Save the Earth post-it note for youth gives ideas for daily stewardship of the earth.
• Turn Down the Heat post-it note offers great daily deeds to combat global warming! 
• Paper Trail is a brochure chock full of info on US paper consumption (30 percent of the world total), the consequences of paper production (three pounds of wood for every one pound of paper) and things we can do to reduce, reuse and recycle (lists sources for 100 percent post-consumer paper).
• Turn Down the Heat focuses on the threat of global warming to humankind and to the eco-system (what will happen if the Gulf Stream stalls?), and gives practical suggestions for turning the tide.
• Going, going, gone . is our catchy bookmark inviting youth to make a difference for the good of God's earth by the choices they make every day.
• The Be(e/a)tles Guide enlists the Fab Four to prompt our thinking on things like paper consumption (Paperback Writer), car use (Baby You Can Drive My Car) and water resources (can you guess?).

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