Our Covenant with the Earth
1. Ecology of Living
To integrate labour, community contribution, personal maintenance and creative endeavours.
2. Community Living
To live in a supportive, cooperative setting with people of like intent.
Work toward a common path and live a deep commitment to self, others and the earth.
3. Voluntary Simplicity
To enhance quality of life by consuming less and living simply.
To encourage ourselves to receive daily nourishment from renewable, preferably organic, green plants.
4. Right Livelihood
To know the social and environmental impact of our work.
To work or volunteer in only those efforts that enhance the quality of all life.
5. Environmental Action
To practice non-violent action in defence of the Earth.
To know the facts and implications of an action and ‘stay the path’.
6. Spiritual Practices
To perform a daily practice that encourages attunement with those encompassing powers
that nourish the Earth and intuitively guide all human endeavours.
7. Scientific Understanding
To know the basic universal laws of ecology and apply them to a specific bioregion
and be able to extend such understanding to others.
8. Cultural Diversity
To study past and present cultures who live in harmony with the Earth.
To know the psychological, sociological and cultural roots of one’s own tradition.
9. Education of the Citizenry
To use every action, insight and interaction to share environmental understandings.
To be a model world citizen.
To spend time with children, elders and people of all ages.
10. Personal Growth
To “know thyself” with and through the universe.
To search, find and accept a path of insight and action that will assure peace, love and truth for all life.