Our beautiful home, Mother Earth, sustains life from moment to moment, year upon year. Her generosity invokes a spirit of gratitude, a desire to care for the Earth so future generations may be blessed as well. Sadly, human activity is instead contributing to harmful global climate change through exploitation of fossil fuels, deforestation, agribusiness, overfishing, and other practices that are destroying animal and plant species, melting glaciers, and polluting air, land and water. We will strive to foster within ourselves, our communities and our world an ethic of responsible Earth stewardship, with an eye toward the future “seventh generation” cherished by First Nations people. We will practice gratitude toward our brothers and sisters, both human and nonhuman, and the Good Earth that sustains us.