Green Sanctuary Background June 2007
Contains charter, energy audit, and certification action plan
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Committee Meetings
Regular committee meetings will now be held at the church on the
third Sunday of every month after the late service.
Our next Green Sanctuary Committee Meeting will be held Sunday, October 18th at 12:15 p.m.
All who are interested are invited to attend.
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Core Committee Members
Sandi Smith-Gill (co-chair)
Marney Bruce (co-chair)
Tom Swigart
Sue Singley
Ed Rau
John Dittman
Juya Dittman
Dave Hutchins
Shannon Moore
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Minutes
March 9, 2008
December 4, 2007
May 1, 2007
March 11, 2007
February 6, 2007
January 2, 2007
December 5, 2006
November 7, 2006
October 3, 2006
August 1, 2006
June 6, 2006
May 2, 2006
April 4, 2006
March 7, 2006
February 7, 2006
January 3, 2006
November 1, 2005
October 4, 2005
September 6, 2005
August 8, 2005
July 11, 2005
June 13, 2005
Archived Minutes
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Past Bi-monthly Table Top Presentations
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Upcoming Activities
WE HAVE A BUSY FALL PLANNED!!!!!
Friendly Forum, "Appalachian Voices" film presentation,
and multimedia presentation on Mountain Top Removal Sunday October 11th.
FF at 10:00 and presentation after the 11:00 service.
We will also have a vegetarian pot luck.
Split plate on Oct 18th to Appalachian Voices.
Learn more here: End Mountaintop Removal
Next trash pick-up will be Saturday October 17th at 10:00.
"350" Auction on Saturday October 24th, 3:50 p.m. until 10:00 p.m.
Learn more here: 350.org
November Split Plate - Environmental Justice and the Right to Water issue.
Fair Trade Fashion Show - December 6th at 12:00 noon.
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Past Activities
Learn more here about cleaning up Elmer Derr Road: Frederick County Dept of Transportation
UUCF hosted a Global Warming course in January/February 2008.
There were six class members, facilitated by our own Marney Bruce and Lena Rotenberg from Simplicity Matters.
See their website here Simplicity Matters Earth Institute
The Green Sanctuary "took over" the church in April 2006
We did the set-up, greeting, ushering, tiddy trooping, and kitchen clean up for the whole month.
We hosted the singing and sermonizing of Kathy Moser at the Earth Day service on April 23rd.
We collected money for the UU ministry of Earth.
We also sold lots of Earth-friendly products.
Earth Day Celebration Service with Katherine Jesch - April 17, 2005 was a huge success.
See the outcome below.
UU Ministry For Earth - Katherine Jesch
See her sermon from 2004
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Important Information
Frederick Post-News Article About Green Candidate
Greening Workshop Outcome
Brainstorming Action Items [PDF format - may take a minute to load]
Environmental Audit [PDF format - may take a minute to load]
Courting Disaster Article
Community Building Workshop - 7th Principle Steps
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Photo Gallery
PAWPAW TREE PLANTING
ADOPT-A-ROAD TRASH PICK-UP
NATIVE PLANT SALE AND PLANTING
WILDFLOWER MEADOW PREP
WILDFLOWER MEADOW PREP PART DEUX
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Favorite Web Sites
LANDSCAPING/GARDENING LINKS
GREEN CONSUMERS LINKS
LOCAL ENVIRONMENT LINKS
NATIONAL ENVIRONMENT LINKS
HEALTHY EATING LINKS
SIMPLE LIVING LINKS
OUTDOOR AREAS LINKS
ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES LINKS
UU LINKS
ECO-SPIRITUAL LINKS
MARYLAND CSA LINKS
GREEN TRAVEL LINKS
GREEN CLEANING LINKS
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Reach webmaster, Turner Stokes, at webmaster@frederickuu.org
Reach apprentice sub-webmaster for the Green Sanctuary website, Tom Swigart, at gumbylover47@gmail.com
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