How can we live more responsibly? In this A-Z, Ruth Valerio highlights the main threats to people and our planet, God's beloved creation. She shows us how, by making small but significant changes to our lifestyle, we can learn the secret of a life that is both fair and simple.  
  
Scenario: you wake up and jump in the shower. The water is hot and the house warm. You eat breakfast: coffee made with water boiled in the kettle, and cereal with milk kept cool in the fridge. You throw out the foil trays from last night's takeaway before jumping in the car and setting off for work.  
  
You've done nothing unusual, but already your lifestyle choices - yes, choices - have had an impact on people and the environment across the world.  
  
With warmth and honesty, the author shares her personal journey as well as disturbing findings and deep concerns. It is her passion that we would all play our part in caring for the amazing earth that our God has so wisely and generously created.

Ruth Valerio

Acknowledgments

Introduction

A is for Activists

B is for Bananas

C is for Creation

D is for Driving

E is for Energy

F is for Food

G is for Globalization

H is for Habitats

I is for Investments

J is for Jobs

K is for Kippers

L is for Letters

M is for Money

N is for Needs

O is for Organic

P is for Plastic1

Q is for Questions

R is for Recycling

S is for Simplicity

T is for Technology

U is for Unwanted Peoples

V is for Volunteering

W is for Water

X is for Xenophobia

Y is for Young People

Z is for Zeitgeist

Glossary

\["Concerned about the impact we're having on God's creation?","Free of judgement, Ruth Valero will encourage you to make better choices to help God's earth.","This A-Z Guide will help you live more responsibly."\]

Ruth Valerio is a true pioneer... This book brings us all the benefit of her hard-won experience and applied faith, and will be an essential resource for all concerned to live the whole of their lives to God's glory and for the healing of his creation.

__- Peter Harris, A Rocha__

An incredible textbook for changing the world.

__- Shane Claiborne, author and activist__

Offers a challenge that none of us can ignore. Buy it, read it, and make a difference.

__- Elaine Storkey, Theologian, author and social scientist__

A wealth of ideas for those who want to live with integrity in the light of Scripture.

__- Roy McCloughry, author__

We are standing on the brink of ecological collapse. Many fall into the temptation of apathy or despair. In this inspiring book, Ruth Valerio moves us from apathy to action, challenging us with the urgent biblical mandate to become healers of the Earth. She moves us from despair into becoming drivers of change, not only making individual lifestyle changes, but becoming catalysts for significant transformation in society. This is a practical handbook of faith and action that every Christian should read, use and recycle on to as many friends as possible!

__- Dr Rachel Mash, Canon for the Environment, Anglican Church of Southern Africa__

Ruth has a rare ability to change a person’s way of seeing the world, and at the same time provide very practical steps needed to live out that new way of seeing the world. She’s done that for me. Because of Ruth, I see caring for God’s beautiful world as a natural part of following Christ and I have plenty of simple ways to put that faith into action. This book will do the same for you.

__- Jeff Galley, Central LifeGroups and Missions Leader, Life.Church, US__

Ruth's love for the natural world bursts through every page of this book. For many years, she has shaped her life to share this planet with God's amazing community of creation. This book is a priceless handbook on how to live sustainably. Ruth does so humbly and honestly, sharing the joys and difficulties of being planet-friendly in a consumer world.

__- Margot Hodson, church minister and Theology and Education Director of the John Ray Initiative__

I absolutely love this book. There cannot be a more poignant moment to pick such a relevant and engaging read. In these pages we are invited to participate in a journey that will shape the future of our world and the world of so many others.

Ruth takes us on a journey that we can all engage in, with easy-to-access ideas and practices. I felt so energised having read this, to be part of that different story. Buying this book will change your life for the better, and in so doing, change our world.

__- Mark Melluish, Minister, St Paul’s Ealing, and Assistant National Leader of New Wine UK__

Ruth Valero offers an A-Z guide to responsible stewardship of the earth

Philip Mader-Grayson

Great Book. Knew it would be and proved right.

L is for Luifestyle

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Review of first edition -  
Full marks to whoever chose the title. Whichever way you read it, the title describes the help and advice in this book exactly. The author works through the alphabet with chapters such as A for Activist, B for Bananas and so on. Each chapter ends with Action Points, Good Contacts and Good Books for each subject. Ruth Valerio is passionate about the environment and our responsibilities as Christians. She is also practical. She doesn’t demand that we change our lives completely in one grand action, but that we make small and manageable changes, and then when they become our natural way of doing things, take another step. A very readable and worthwhile book that I plan to heed and try to do as she suggests.  
In the introduction to this new edition, Ruth Valerio explains that in the four years since the first edition, climate change has become recognised throughout the world and the need for changes to our lifestyles is universally recognised. This is reflected in this revised and expanded update.

‘L’ is for Lifestyle

Review of first edition -  
Full marks to whoever chose the title. Whichever way you read it, the title describes the help and advice in this book exactly. The author works through the alphabet with chapters such as A for Activist, B for Bananas and so on. Each chapter ends with Action Points, Good Contacts and Good Books for each subject. Ruth Valerio is passionate about the environment and our responsibilities as Christians. She is also practical. She doesn&#146;t demand that we change our lives completely in one grand action, but that we make small and manageable changes, and then when they become our natural way of doing things, take another step. A very readable and worthwhile book that I plan to heed and try to do as she suggests.  
In the introduction to this new edition, Ruth Valerio explains that in the four years since the first edition, climate change has become recognised throughout the world and the need for changes to our lifestyles is universally recognised. This is reflected in this revised and expanded update.

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L is for Lifestyle

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