Christy Shelton
Van Nuys, California
"While I have been a lifetime advocate for the Earth, seeing An Inconvenient Truth this summer kicked me into another gear. I thought about what I could do in my life to make a difference, and since I teach art to children it was a natural place to bring this issue, and integrate it into my fall curriculum."
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Gary Becker
Racine, Wisconsin
"As a mayor of a city of 80,000 people, I am in the position to affect more than just my own actions. Believing that it is our duty to leave this planet better off than we found it I have tried to raise the awareness level of my staff of the impact they can have, positive or negative, on the environment around us."
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Peter Foster
East Hampton, Connecticut
"My perspective comes from the wide variety of experiences of living in the temperate zone of New England where nature's extremes are experienced annually through seasonal variations. Trips from the forests of upstate Vermont to the expanses of Alaskan wilderness to the wilds of Patagonia and the glaciers of Chile to the wonders of our National Parks of the West to the majesty of thermal springs and cataracts of Iceland and the mysteries of the Himalayas in Northern India have fascinated and captured my attention giving me a reverence for the beauty, the peace, and the rapture of that which has been created of the pleasure, excitement and joy of humanity in this world."
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Jim Hall
Germantown, Maryland
"During the past five years we have expanded our work to build an earth ministry center at Dayspring. We have just completed building two "green" staff cottages; restoration of an old barn that we will use for teaching and construction of a solar, straw-bale greenhouse with an array of gardens lie ahead."
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Kathryn Dietrich
Streamwood, Illinois
"My faith has been the springboard for the environmentally kind habits in my life. I consider this creation a precious gift from God, and what is the appropriate response for a cherished gift? Thankfulness and care." |
Sue Varga
Charlotte, North Carolina
"It is the Christian value of hospitality that drives my environmentalism at all levels of my life. Christian hospitality as I understand it, is the creation of sanctuary — an atmosphere in which all who enter feel loved, accepted, and safe. … Following the traditions of Eastern cultures, I am working on a landscaping plan that will afford those who view my yard — whether as a guest, or from the street — a feeling of comfort, peace, and reflection."
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Pamela Barbour
Duluth, Minnesota
"To practice a mindful connection between the earth's natural resources with an effort to conserve and protect is for me a life-long practice stemming back to the first Earth Day in 1970."
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David Weiss
Carson, Washington
"The Columbia Gorge Ecology Institute is a wonderful organization that gets into the schools and teaches the science of ecology in both fun and interactive ways. I feel our most important goal is to instill in the student a sense of wonder about what they can find in the forests in their own back yard. By helping each other explore the wonders of this world we may gain the knowledge and appreciation needed to preserve it for all life."
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Celia Kiewit
San Diego, California
"My spiritual path has been an evolution, an intelligently-designed learning process that I recommend for a life of purpose and fulfillment. I don't have any children, but I care about how I leave the Earth for those who do."
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Steve Edwards
Lincoln, Nebraska
"I laughed out loud, swore, and wondered how many spectacles just as mighty I'd already witnessed and forgotten. Then a voice inside my head, or maybe from the grasses, very quietly spoke: 'the point is not to remember but to try to live a life as beautiful as what you see, so that everyone you meet can share in this momentary glimpse now before you.'"
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