Report of September 10, 2006 Green Sanctuary Committee Meeting
A. GREEN SANCTUARY
1. Small Group Reading and Discussion Group. After considering congregational interests, our Fellowship will sponsor, starting October 17 at 7 p.m., a small group discussion group on Articulating Your UU Faith. April will order an extra copy of the materials. We will postpone the proposed discussion group The Great Turning by David C. Korten perhaps to next spring. Harold has the book for anyone who would like to borrow it.
2. Northwest Earth Institute Discussion Course for January, 2007. After reviewing the six available courses, we reached consensus to host in January 2007 the 9 - week Discussion Course on Choices for Sustainable Living. The first session will be Thursday, January 18. We will invite other organizations to participate.
3. Progress on Action Plan
a. Renewable Energy subscription to carbonfund.org? We'll check with Treasurer for progress on this.
b. Energy Star Refrigerator - Katherine gave an extensive analysis of her research on available Energy Star models. The top rated Models are Kenmore model 7452, 7426, 7495, 64095, or 7496. The super-efficient Sun Front refrigerators are prohibitively expensive - $1,900 and up, so we will target a Kenmore model ranging from $731 to $839.
Lesley volunteered to do further web research on how to ensure the old refrigerator is taken off the grid, properly recycled, perhaps returned to the utility Southern California Edison. Katherine offered to host a fundraiser garage sale for the "Green Refrigerator." The sale will be held on Saturday, October 21, 2006. Janet and Lesley will assist organizing and staging the sale. Don said he could come on the day of the sale to help, and hopefully David H. can as well. Members of the congregaton as requested to bring their items to Katherine for the garage sale.
c. Recycled Paper and green cleaning. Lesley volunteered to see if there are less expensive places to buy recycled paper in bulk, in order to get better prices, especially since it is so hard to obtain the 100% recycled paper in Visalia.
d. Library - Environmental and Sustainability books. Harold has a starting list of books to consider. We need another volunteer to work on this, to research and narrow down the best and most appropriate books for addition to our Fellowship Library.
4. Upcoming (of 6 required) Presentations to do this coming church year:
a. Report on UUA Statement of Conscience & what it means for us as a congregation and as individuals. Harold has completed a Power Point on this and has offered it to Worship Committee.
b. Water justice - TBA (April)
c. An Inconvenient Truth - First Sunday Forum – October 1, 2006 – at 3 p.m. at Friends Meeting House.
d. Compact Fluorescent program for the congregation. Harold wondered if there was enough to do an entire worship program on this topic, but the group concluded that there was, because there is so much confusion about their relative cost, their relative efficiency, and which types to buy for different purposes. We also decided to make this a fundraiser as well, making some of the hard-to-get types available to the congregation. This program might not be held until 2007.
e. Book: Asphalt Nation - TBA (Katherine)
f. Earth Day 2007
4. Action Project - CFL Project -- compact fluorescent light bulbs for low-income families in the community of London. Tabled in absence of David.
B. GLOBAL WARMING
1. AB 32 passed the legislature and probably will be signed by Governor. Thus California will have specific targets to combat global warming.
2. Handouts and discussion for An Inconvenient Truth showing - We won't have much time for group discussion immediately after the film showing, but can briefly discuss whether to have a follow-up discussion at a later time.
Next meeting will be October 8, 2006 at 6 p.m. during potluck.
1. Small Group Reading and Discussion Group. After considering congregational interests, our Fellowship will sponsor, starting October 17 at 7 p.m., a small group discussion group on Articulating Your UU Faith. April will order an extra copy of the materials. We will postpone the proposed discussion group The Great Turning by David C. Korten perhaps to next spring. Harold has the book for anyone who would like to borrow it.
2. Northwest Earth Institute Discussion Course for January, 2007. After reviewing the six available courses, we reached consensus to host in January 2007 the 9 - week Discussion Course on Choices for Sustainable Living. The first session will be Thursday, January 18. We will invite other organizations to participate.
3. Progress on Action Plan
a. Renewable Energy subscription to carbonfund.org? We'll check with Treasurer for progress on this.
b. Energy Star Refrigerator - Katherine gave an extensive analysis of her research on available Energy Star models. The top rated Models are Kenmore model 7452, 7426, 7495, 64095, or 7496. The super-efficient Sun Front refrigerators are prohibitively expensive - $1,900 and up, so we will target a Kenmore model ranging from $731 to $839.
Lesley volunteered to do further web research on how to ensure the old refrigerator is taken off the grid, properly recycled, perhaps returned to the utility Southern California Edison. Katherine offered to host a fundraiser garage sale for the "Green Refrigerator." The sale will be held on Saturday, October 21, 2006. Janet and Lesley will assist organizing and staging the sale. Don said he could come on the day of the sale to help, and hopefully David H. can as well. Members of the congregaton as requested to bring their items to Katherine for the garage sale.
c. Recycled Paper and green cleaning. Lesley volunteered to see if there are less expensive places to buy recycled paper in bulk, in order to get better prices, especially since it is so hard to obtain the 100% recycled paper in Visalia.
d. Library - Environmental and Sustainability books. Harold has a starting list of books to consider. We need another volunteer to work on this, to research and narrow down the best and most appropriate books for addition to our Fellowship Library.
4. Upcoming (of 6 required) Presentations to do this coming church year:
a. Report on UUA Statement of Conscience & what it means for us as a congregation and as individuals. Harold has completed a Power Point on this and has offered it to Worship Committee.
b. Water justice - TBA (April)
c. An Inconvenient Truth - First Sunday Forum – October 1, 2006 – at 3 p.m. at Friends Meeting House.
d. Compact Fluorescent program for the congregation. Harold wondered if there was enough to do an entire worship program on this topic, but the group concluded that there was, because there is so much confusion about their relative cost, their relative efficiency, and which types to buy for different purposes. We also decided to make this a fundraiser as well, making some of the hard-to-get types available to the congregation. This program might not be held until 2007.
e. Book: Asphalt Nation - TBA (Katherine)
f. Earth Day 2007
4. Action Project - CFL Project -- compact fluorescent light bulbs for low-income families in the community of London. Tabled in absence of David.
B. GLOBAL WARMING
1. AB 32 passed the legislature and probably will be signed by Governor. Thus California will have specific targets to combat global warming.
2. Handouts and discussion for An Inconvenient Truth showing - We won't have much time for group discussion immediately after the film showing, but can briefly discuss whether to have a follow-up discussion at a later time.
Next meeting will be October 8, 2006 at 6 p.m. during potluck.
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