1. Care of the earth --This includes all living and non-living things, such as animals, plants, land, water and air. Provision for all life systems to continue and multiply.

2. Care of people -- Provision for people to access those resources necessary to their existence. The aim is to promote self-reliance and community responsibility.

3. Return of surplus -- to pass on anything surplus to our needs (labor, money, information, etc.) to serve the above aims. This carries with it a voluntary setting of limits to population and consumption.

Implicit in this set of ethics is the "Life Ethic": all living organisms are seen not only as a means but an end. In addition to their instrumental value to humans and other living organisms, they have an intrinsic value or worth.

Personal Ethics of Land Use:

How much land can I responsibly look after?

Rather than what we want to do with the land, might we ask, What does the land itself call for?

What uses does the land itself suggest?

Is the land being used to serve the earth and humanity?

How am I replacing to resources I use?

Ethics and Teaching Teaching becomes more important the more we learn that we know very little. There is an old saying about when you teach, you learn. It is important that we re-teach the fundamentals about the basis of our earthly existence to every generation.