March 2026 

Plan for April’s Earth Day/Month. Consider visiting local environmental centers or setting up a resource fair with handouts, seedlings, samples, and crafts such as making seed balls or mobiles from nature items. Look for a service-to-Earth project, such as trail or invasives clearing. Hold an outside worship service with liturgy on the theme of Creation care.
Dispose of worn-out, stained, torn clothes and fabric scraps with Earth in mind. Send them to ReTold Recycling. As of 2025 this repurposing company has diverted 312 tons from landfills, the equivalent of saving 4.4 million liters of water, preventing 980,805 pounds of coal burning, and removing emissions from 206 gas-powered cars for a year.
Connect the dots. Climate change is affecting food prices. Super storms, drought, floods, extreme heat—all mess with food production and our budgets. Food cost is the second biggest way climate change is impacting people globally. Climate change is real.
Be a bee saver. One in three bee species is facing risk of extinction largely because of neonicotinoid pesticides in lawncare products such as Round Up. First, do no harm: boycott those products and their suppliers (Amazon and Home Depot). Second, do good: plant gardens or patches that offer pollinator blooms early spring through autumn.
Use your influence at work. At your place of employment—in your office, on your work team—invite others to join you in doing something for the environment. Could they agree to avoid single-use plastics? Recycle paper? Reuse rather than trash? Compost lunch food scraps? Even one action by a group is powerful! Publicize your efforts for more impact.
Read more. A book club could read Saving Us, by Katherine Hayhoe, or Stewards of Eden, by Sandra Richter, for starters. As part of the discussion, encourage people to talk about what they are doing and bring their questions.
Watch for connections to faith. As a Sunday school class, choose a speaker, film, or panel to discuss sustainability, the connection of climate change to environmental justice, and actions individuals, families, and the church can take. 
Wait before you buy. Sorting out wants from needs takes time. Give yourself a deadline of 48 hours, a week or two, perhaps a month to reflect then decide to buy or not. Avoid mindless consumerism.
Update your laundry practices. More earth-friendly options are available, including powders in tablet form, liquids in non-plastic pods, refills, wool dryer balls, clothes pins for hanging up laundry to dry. Avoid plastic bottles, save emissions from transport and from dryers, save water. Check out blueland.com and ecoroots.com.
Spread the ban. Banning single-use bottles and bags prevents millions of tons of plastic from entering the waste stream, forces companies to innovate, and helps shift consumers’ mindset as people recognize the dangers. Contact your employer, city council, and state lawmakers to say, “No more!” Make it official.