Principles of
ENVIRONMENTAL FRIDAYS 

  1. Environmental Fridays focuses on both education and engagement, awareness and action. It promotes curiosity about and enjoyment of our ecosystem.
  2. Life in our observable universe exists only in relationship and transaction with the environment. Life ceaselessly exchanges matter, energy, and information with the environment.
  3. The environment and life are in us as we are in them. We are connected to the environment materially, relationally, and spiritually. Human existence itself is evidence of both life and the environment.
  4. Our human ecosystem consists of four significant and interacting environmental influences: natural, built, temporal, and socio-cultural.
  5. Diversity is essential to life and the environment. It is the fundamental enabler to the emergence, resilience, and ceaseless creativity of life.
  6. All biogeochemical cycles are evidence of the relatedness and interdependence of life and the environment.
  7. All fundamental particles and forces of nature exist in relationship to each other either through interaction, origination, or as medium.
  8. As conscious beings of life and environment, we are the universe aware and curious about itself. We are the universe assigning meaning and value to itself and taking responsibility for itself.
  9. As conscious beings of life and environment, we are called to be stewards, caretakers, and protectors of life and the environment.
  10. Concern for the environment is not vague philosophy or fad, it is health, it is economy, it is education, it is action, it is real and is unmistakably personal.