PRINCIPLE 1: Reduce, reuse, and recycle.

PRINCIPLE 2: Stay close to home. Work close to home, eat grown food from nearby, join local organizations.

PRINCIPLE 3: Internal combustion engines should be minimized.

PRINCIPLE 4: Avoid food grown with pesticides, in feedlots, or by agribusiness.


PRINCIPLE 5: Our consumption choices must encourage and support good behavior; our political choices must support government regulation.

PRINCIPLE 6: Support thoughtful innovations in manufacturing and production for environmental sustainability.

PRINCIPLE 7: Prioritize. An energy-sucking refrigerator is much more worthy of your attention than driving yourself mad fretting over the small electronics.

PRINCIPLE 8: Vote. Political engagement enables the spread of environmentally conscious policies.

PRINCIPLE 9: Don't feel guilty. It only makes you sad.

PRINCIPLE 10: Enjoy what you have—the things that are yours alone, and the things that belong to none of us. Both are nice, but the latter are precious. Those things that we cannot manufacture and should never own—water, air, birds, trees—are the foundation of life's pleasures. Without them, we're nothing. With us, there may be nothing left. It's our choice.