Day 49 - Ecology

The Seventh Generation Principle is based on an ancient Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) philosophy that the decisions we make today should result in a sustainable world for seven generations into the future.

Reflection
  • Each of us can begin to heal the environment by changing our daily habits.
  • Nonviolence extends from ourselves, not just to our brothers and sisters, but to the earth as well.
  • Waste is stuff we haven’t found a purpose for yet.
Action
  • Imagine you are planning the world for someone seven generations from now.
  • What would that world look like?
  • Think of three ways that waste can be reduced in your community or find an environmental cause and think of ways that you, and your community, can support their work.
  • Take one action toward these ideas today.
“We do not inherit the Earth from our Ancestors, we borrow it from our Children.”
Native American proverb
“We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect”
Aldo Leopold
“The first law of ecology is that everything is related to everything else.”
Barry Commoner
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Fritzi Horstman is the Founder and Executive Director of Compassion Prison Project. She is a Grammy-award winning producer for her work on “The Defiant Ones”, has been a producer and post-producer on dozens of television projects and documentaries and has directed several films. She believes it is urgent to bring humanity and compassion to those living behind bars and these acts will help transform our society. She has a Bachelor’s Degree from Vassar College.

Day 49