Twenty Commandments of Conscious Consumption

At a recent Sabbath service my congregants began brainstorming ways to obey the command: “Do not Waste!”

My goal was to create a list of the “Ten Commandments of Conscious Consumption.”

My community, however, said, “You should list 20 so everyone can choose the ten that work for them.” Imagine if the Bible’s Ten Commandments were written by committee so we could pick and choose! Which ten would you leave out? None the less, here are the 20 so you can pick the ones that work for you!

Twenty Commandments of Conscious Consumption:

1. Don’t buy things you don’t need
2. Support businesses and products that have sustainability policies
3. Buy local products and produce, organic and free range foods
4. Install compact fluorescent light bulbs (CFL) and turn off lights when not in use. (If we all replaced one conventional bulb with a CFL, it would lessen pollution as much as removing a million cars from the road.)
5. Buy high efficiency appliances
6. Use eco-friendly cleaning products
7. Lower your heat and lessen your air conditioning
8. Tele-commute whenever possible
9. When it is time to replace you car, buy a fuel efficient vehicle
10. Use wind or solar power for your home and office
11. Drive less: ride your bike & walk more
12. Reduce, reuse, recycle (i.e. encourage the use of hand-me-down clothing, toys, sporting goods and electronics)
13. Install dual 2 flush toilets (different flow amounts based on need)
14. Bring your own reusable, cloth bags to the grocery store
15. Compost
16. Choose products that contain less packaging. (About one-third of the waste in our landfills is from packaging materials!)
17. Vacation near home so you can fly less
18. Don’t use wrapping paper or store bought greeting cards
19. Use less water.
20. Encourage our politicians to create policies that enable us to stop giving oil money to people that hate us and want to kill us.


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