From zeitz at uni.edu Sat Sep 2 22:20:05 2006 From: zeitz at uni.edu (Leigh Zeitz) Date: Sat, 02 Sep 2006 21:20:05 -0500 Subject: [Greensanctuary] Green Sanctuary mailing list has been created Message-ID: Just wanted you to know that I have created the Green Sanctuary mailing list. You just send an email to greensanctuary at uusbhc.org (notice that it is all one word) and it will go to: Jim Paprocki jpaprocki at mchsi.com Juanita Williams dennisharb at aol.com Julie Fischer julief at cfu.net Betsy Brant bbrant at cfu.net Lynn Brant lynn.brant at uni.edu Kamyar Enshayan kamyar.enshyan at uni.edu Have fun, Z -- Leigh E. Zeitz, Ph.D. Associate Professor University of Northern Iowa SEC 618 Cedar Falls, IA 50614-0606 Office: 319-273-3249 Fax: 319-273-5886 zeitz at uni.edu http://www.leighzeitz.org http://www.leighzeitz.com http://www.keyboardingresearch.org From jpaprocki at mchsi.com Fri Sep 8 11:10:34 2006 From: jpaprocki at mchsi.com (Jim Paprocki) Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2006 10:10:34 -0500 Subject: [Greensanctuary] Fw: Iowa Interfaith Power & Light Message-ID: <001d01c6d358$f545c150$6401a8c0@userxztiolgj12> Re: Iowa Interfaith Power & LightI asked Ruth Walker to attend but she already has a commitment on October 8th. We still are in need of 2 members to attend the workshops in Des Moines. Please feel free to ask anyone you know if they are interested in attending this meeting. Thanks, Jim ----- Original Message ----- From: Rev. Benjamin Webb To: Jim Paprocki Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2006 10:28 PM Subject: Re: Iowa Interfaith Power & Light Sure will Jim. Look forward to seeing you there...Rev. Ben Webb On 9/7/06 9:05 AM, "Jim Paprocki" wrote: Rev. Webb: The Unitarian Universalist Society of Black Hawk County plans to send a representative to the workshops on October 8th. Please reserve a packet of information for our congregation. Thank you very much! Sincerely, Jim Paprocki jpaprocki at mchsi.com --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Text inserted by Panda Titanium 2006 Antivirus + Antispyware: This message has NOT been classified as spam. If it is unsolicited mail (spam), click on the following link to reclassify it: It is spam! --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.uusbhc.org/pipermail/greensanctuary/attachments/20060908/6c7f3307/attachment.html From carolyn.hildebrandt at uni.edu Sun Sep 10 15:58:33 2006 From: carolyn.hildebrandt at uni.edu (Carolyn Hildebrandt) Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2006 14:58:33 -0500 Subject: [Greensanctuary] green sanctuary project Message-ID: <45046E69.9@uni.edu> CLOTH NAPKIN MAKING WORKSHOP Jan Gallagher and I want to do a sewing project for Family Choir, The Needlers,* and any other group that wants to join us. It's a Cloth Napkin-Making Workshop. We'd like to do it sometime in November so that people can make napkins for themselves or for holiday gifts. We would provide the materials and equipment and would charge something like 50 cents a napkin. People who wanted to bring their own fabric could do so at a reduced cost. There would be a cutting station, an ironing station, and a sewing station with multiple sewing machines, as we did with the fleece hat making workshop a few years ago. I have done straight-line sewing with children as young as kindergarten and first grade, so children (accompanied by a parent or other adult) would be welcome to participate. We would ask people sign up in shifts so that we would have enough room for everybody to work and enough experts on hand to help out with the sewing machines and other equipment. My family uses cloth napkins almost exclusively. Each person has his/her own napkin ring and decides when his/her napkin needs to go into the wash. I have about eights sets of cloth napkins. The majority of the sets are over 12 years old and still look pretty good! Please let us know if you think this would work as a Green Sanctuary Project for the church. Carolyn * The Needlers is a group that Jan is interested in starting as a Wednesday evening activity. From paraclete0y14 at yahoo.com Sun Sep 10 16:20:52 2006 From: paraclete0y14 at yahoo.com (DJ Davis) Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2006 13:20:52 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Greensanctuary] "The Future of Food" film/video and Green Sanctuary/Conscious Living/Social Action Message-ID: <20060910202052.54308.qmail@web58302.mail.re3.yahoo.com> Dear All--I have a purchased copy of this outstanding documentary (winner of several awards) by Deborah Garcia . It helps us understand a number of little-known facts and issues that we will probably want to take positive action on: (1) How GMO seeds are not "just like hybrids, as the agro-biotech biz wants us to believe; how viruses and bacteria are inserted in them to make them able to "break into" a seed's DNA. (2) How "the right to patent life" (which came about under the Reagan Admin.) has empowered and ramped-up the greed of Montsanto and DuPont and others to claim control/ rights to income forever from stray seeds that get into unwilling farmers' fields (in other countries, too) (3) How these GMO seeds threaten heritage seed stocks and the future of food for the world (already in South America and Central America). (4) How "terminator" seeds are being produced by these GMO agro-biotech companies that can, willy-nilly, affect our heritage and wild seed stocks. Personally, I wish a lot more people could see it before the Nov. elections, so they could ask the candidates for national office where they would stand. But in any case, as the "window" on this process is possibly as little as 5 years, and not more than 10 (according to Garcia's research), it would be a reason for getting new legislation passed (like some forwarded by Kucinich and Boxer, but also some other more far-reaching legislation). Kamyar has a project at UNI that might dovetail with when we decide to show it for our congregation (or the public, with Garcia's OK) for free. Certainly this would fit with the Green Sanctuary purposes/goals/guidelines. Donna D --------------------------------- Get your own web address for just $1.99/1st yr. We'll help. Yahoo! Small Business. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.uusbhc.org/pipermail/greensanctuary/attachments/20060910/bc3a885c/attachment.html From kamyar.enshayan at uni.edu Mon Sep 11 11:16:24 2006 From: kamyar.enshayan at uni.edu (Kamyar Enshayan) Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2006 10:16:24 -0500 Subject: [Greensanctuary] Re: "The Future of Food" film/video and Green Sanctuary/Conscious Living/Social Action In-Reply-To: <20060910202052.54308.qmail@web58302.mail.re3.yahoo.com> References: <20060910202052.54308.qmail@web58302.mail.re3.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <45057DC8.9040002@uni.edu> Hello, It seems to me, one of the very useful actions we can take in the Green Sanctuary process is to develop a contact list of key people in other churches around us who might support certan events, initiatives. So, when we do plan a film series, several churches can be listed if they wish. I am in the process of planning a series of events for 2007 to highlight 10 years of local food development in our metro area. One of them will be showing of a few films, and the one Donna mentioned is one of them. I will be happy to help in whatever way needed. Kamyar DJ Davis wrote: > Dear All--I have a purchased copy of this outstanding documentary > (winner of several awards) by Deborah Garcia . It helps us understand > a number of little-known facts and issues that we will probably want > to take positive action on: > > (1) How GMO seeds are not "just like hybrids, as the agro-biotech biz > wants us to believe; how viruses and bacteria are inserted in them to > make them able to "break into" a seed's DNA. > > (2) How "the right to patent life" (which came about under the Reagan > Admin.) has empowered and ramped-up the greed of Montsanto and DuPont > and others to claim control/ rights to income /forever /from stray > seeds that get into unwilling farmers' fields (in other countries, too) > > (3) How these GMO seeds threaten heritage seed stocks and the future > of food for the world (already in South America and Central America). > > (4) How "terminator" seeds are being produced by these GMO > agro-biotech companies that can, willy-nilly, affect our heritage and > wild seed stocks. > > Personally, I wish a lot more people could see it before the Nov. > elections, so they could ask the candidates for national office where > they would stand. But in any case, as the "window" on this process is > possibly as little as 5 years, and not more than 10 (according to > Garcia's research), it would be a reason for getting new legislation > passed (like some forwarded by Kucinich and Boxer, but also some other > more far-reaching legislation). > > Kamyar has a project at UNI that might dovetail with when we decide to > show it for our congregation (or the public, with Garcia's OK) for free. > > Certainly this would fit with the Green Sanctuary > purposes/goals/guidelines. > > Donna D > > Get your own web address for just $1.99/1st yr > <%20http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=43290/*http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/domains>. > We'll help. Yahoo! Small Business > . From DennisHarb at aol.com Thu Sep 14 22:15:46 2006 From: DennisHarb at aol.com (DennisHarb at aol.com) Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 22:15:46 EDT Subject: [Greensanctuary] Re: "The Future of Food" film/video and Green Sanctuary/Conscious Living/Soc... Message-ID: <563.5eb9093.323b66d2@aol.com> I'm open to finding time and promoting showing this, even if it would be an evening offering or an second hour -going into lunch (if I remember right, it's an hour and a half?) I think we have a lot going on until early November, but if there's good energy on a core group's part we should go for it...What have we got to lose? Juanita -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.uusbhc.org/pipermail/greensanctuary/attachments/20060914/0055b746/attachment.html From john.grinstead at cfu.net Thu Sep 14 23:14:39 2006 From: john.grinstead at cfu.net (John Grinstead) Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 23:14:39 -0400 Subject: [Greensanctuary] Re: "The Future of Food" film/video and Green Sanctuary/Conscious Living/Soc... In-Reply-To: <563.5eb9093.323b66d2@aol.com> References: <563.5eb9093.323b66d2@aol.com> Message-ID: Sounds great! John At 10:15 PM -0400 9/14/06, DennisHarb at aol.com wrote: >I'm open to finding time and promoting showing this, even if it >would be an evening offering or an second hour -going into lunch (if >I remember right, it's an hour and a half?) >I think we have a lot going on until early November, but if there's >good energy on a core group's part we should go for it...What have >we got to lose? >Juanita -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.uusbhc.org/pipermail/greensanctuary/attachments/20060914/09274d9a/attachment.html From jpaprocki at mchsi.com Fri Sep 15 16:50:46 2006 From: jpaprocki at mchsi.com (Jim Paprocki) Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2006 15:50:46 -0500 Subject: [Greensanctuary] Fw: Interfaith Climate and Energy Campaign Bulletin -- Sept. 15, 2006 Message-ID: <000901c6d908$a4b32f10$6401a8c0@userxztiolgj12> Interfaith Climate and Energy Campaign Bulletin -- Sept. 15,2006I am sending the Iowa Interfaaith Climate and Energy Bulletin for your review and consideration. Jim ----- Original Message ----- From: Tim Kautza To: IICEC bulletin Sent: Friday, September 15, 2006 2:10 PM Subject: Interfaith Climate and Energy Campaign Bulletin -- Sept. 15,2006 September 15, 2006 IOWA INTERFAITH CLIMATE AND ENERGY BULLETIN ? a joint publication of the Iowa Interfaith Climate and Energy Campaign (http://www.ncrlc.com/IICEC.html) and Iowa Interfaith Power & Light (http://www.ncrlc.com/IIPandL-webpage.html) Periodic news items and alerts about global climate change justice, energy efficiency, energy conservation, and sustainable energy alternatives for congregations. Please share this with your friends and ask them to subscribe by contacting Tim Kautza at ncrlctk at mchsi.com. As you know, it?s free! Please let us know what you are doing to address climate change as a justice issue and what your congregation is doing to improve energy efficiency, reduce energy consumption, or use alternative energy sources. Also let us know if you DO NOT want to receive this bulletin in the future by simply replying to this email and entering UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line. Blessings! Tim Kautza Coordinator * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * CONTENTS: DES MOINES REGISTER, "SOMETHING?S STIRRING IN THE FAITH COMMUNITY" CONGREGATONS JOIN IIP&L, YOURS CAN TOO, AND SO CAN YOU! PROGRAM SHAPING UP FOR INTERFAITH POWER & LIGHT CONFERENCE; FREE REGISTRATION ENCOURAGED BISHOP SCARFE?S REMARKS NOW ONLINE 94 CONGREGATIONS, 14 DENOMINATIONS TO ADDRESS GLOBAL WARMING AROUND "AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH" DISPOSE CFLS APPROPRIATELY YALE REPORT OFFERS SOLUTIONS TO GLOBAL WARMING VERMONTERS PROTEST GLOBAL WARMING CLEAN ENERGY NEWSLETTER ONLINE * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * DES MOINES REGISTER, "SOMETHING?S STIRRING IN THE FAITH COMMUNITY" The lead editorial in the September 11, 2006, Des Moines Register newspaper entitled "Washington should take cue from green Iowa" is a result of a "ripple effect" of activities begun several years ago through the Iowa Interfaith Climate and Energy Campaign and intensified in recent months by Iowa Interfaith Power & Light (IIP&L). In summary, the editorial says, "Something is stirring in this country, and it's stirring at the grass roots, S in the faith communitySthe awakening response to global warmingSthe moral imperative to care for the Earth." The previous Thursday morning, IIP&L Coordinator Tim Kautza, Des Moines Mayor Frank Cownie, and guests from the Natural Resources Defense Council, met with Register editors about the very topic of the editorial. That meeting, coupled with a town hall meeting conducted that evening by several state and national organizations including IIP&L, and other interfaith and secular climate and energy activities over the past several year helped bring forth the editorial. Read the editorial at http://desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060911/OPINION03/609110301/1035/OPINION --------------------------------- CONGREGATONS JOIN IIP&L, YOURS CAN TOO, AND SO CAN YOU! Four new congregations have joined IIP&L agreeing to work towards increased energy efficiency, reduced fossil-fuel energy consumption, and the use of sustainable energy. St. Luke?s Episcopal Church, Cedar Falls, was the first inaugural member of IIP&L. Now, Redeemer Lutheran Church, Indianola; Queen of Peace Catholic Church, Waterloo; and the Des Moines Islamic Center have also joined. All inaugural congregations and individual members will be recognized at the October 8 conference in Des Moines. You, too, can be among those celebrated for providing early support to IIP&L. Congregational membership (church, synagogue, mosque, center, school, hospital, or organization) is $50 annually. You can become an individual member with any contribution you feel is appropriate. Contributions can be sent and made payable to IIP&L, 4625 Beaver Ave., Des Moines, IA 50310-2145. For more about membership, visit http://www.ncrlc.com/1-pfd-files/IIPL_Brochure_final.pdf Your support is greatly appreciated and will be put to good use. ------------------------------------------------ PROGRAM SHAPING UP FOR INTERFAITH POWER & LIGHT CONFERENCE; FREE REGISTRATION ENCOURAGED Interfaith Power & Light: The Religious Response to Global Warming will be held 1:00 ?4:45 p.m., October 8, at Plymouth Congregational Church, in Des Moines. Sponsored by Iowa Interfaith Power & Light, the gathering will feature keynoter Rev. Sally Bingham, founder of Interfaith Power & Light and executive director of The Regeneration Project, San Francisco, California. Des Moines Mayor Frank Cownie, Union of Concerned Scientists Consultant Ed Woolsey, a representative of the Iowa Utilities Board, and Rev. Bingham will discuss new initiatives at the local, state and federal levels. Two concurrent workshops will help congregations and members increase energy efficiency, reduce global warming, and move toward more sustainable energy sources. Sustainable designer Kevin Nordmeyer, RDG Planning/Design, Des Moines, will lead a workshop highlighting how congregations can accomplish this within their own facilities and Rev. Benjamin Webb, St. Luke?s Episcopal Church, Cedar Falls, and members of that congregation will describe how households can reduce energy costs and impact on global warming. The conference is FREE, but those planning to attend are asked to register by providing their name and email address to ncrlctk at mchsi.com or by calling 515.270.2634. Please register today and plan to bring a carload with you. Please help us promote this valuable conference by posting the attached poster and sending it to your friends and neighboring congregations. Additional information will be available at http://www.ncrlc.com/IIPandL-webpage.html Please spread the word. ------------------------------------- BISHOP SCARFE?S REMARKS NOW ONLINE As reported in the September 8 edition of this bulletin, Iowa Episcopal Bishop Alan Scarfe, a member of Iowa Interfaith Power & Light?s Steering Committee, spoke to an audience of more than 200 people at the town hall meeting "Re-Energize America" September 7 at Plymouth Congregational Church, Des Moines. His moving and inspirational remarks will soon be at IIP&Ls website. Read them at http://www.ncrlc.com/IIPandL-webpage.html and scroll down to "What?s New." You?ll also find a news release with a complete story about the town hall meeting sponsored by IIP&L, National Council of Churches, National Catholic Rural Life Conference, Peace Committee of Plymouth United Church of Christ, Natural Resources Defense Council, Iowa Environmental Council, Iowa Chapter of the Sierra Club, and Iowa Farmers Union. ------------------------------- 94 CONGREGATIONS, 14 DENOMINATIONS TO ADDRESS GLOBAL WARMING AROUND "AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH" We couldn?t imagine this when we guessed, optimistically, that 50 congregations in Iowa would accept the invitation from Iowa Interfaith Power & Light to screen the global warming movie An Inconvenient Truth Oct. 1-8. But, 94 congregations will screen the movie in 45 Iowa communities and include the following faiths and denominations: Baptist, Christian Church, Community of Christ, Congregational, Episcopal, Friends, Islam, Non-Denominational, Presbyterian, Reformed Church of Christ, Roman Catholic, Unitarian Universalist, United Church of Christ, United Methodist, plus several colleges and centers. Watch http://www.ncrlc.com/IIPandL-webpage.html for a list of locations and contact people next week. -------------------------------------- DISPOSE CFLS APPROPRIATELY Let?s not exacerbate one problem as we address another. Compact fluorescent lights greatly improve energy efficiency and their use over incandescent light bulbs is encouraged. But, their mercury content requires safe disposal. Visit http://www.nema..org/lamprecycle/epafactsheet-cfl.pdf#search=%22mercury%20in%20compact%20fluorescent%20light%20bulbs%22 --------------------------------- YALE REPORT OFFERS SOLUTIONS TO GLOBAL WARMING The report: Americans and Climate Change is a wonderful report organized by Yale on why Americans are not responding to the threat of climate change. It offers suggested solutions. The executive summary of the 200+ page report includes some of the solutions. Visit http://environment.yale.edu/doc/748/americans_and_climate_change/ --------------------------------- VERMONTERS PROTEST GLOBAL WARMING Bill McKibben, among others, organized a 50-mile march for global warming known as "From the Road Less Traveled: Vermonters Walking Toward a Clean Energy Future" in Vermont over the Labor Day weekend and sent a series of dispatches during the trek. He was joined by hundreds of people who protested global warming. Bill writes regularly for Grist, is the author of The End of Nature, published in 1989, the first book for a general audience on climate change. A scholar-in-residence at Middlebury College, his forthcoming book is titled Deep Economy. Find his daily dispatches at http://www.motherjones.com/news/update/2006/09/global_warming_march.html ----------------------------------- CLEAN ENERGY NEWSLETTER ONLINE Community Energy Solutions, a developing website and organization, that is committed to a safe, secure energy system for the 21st Century has a newsletter available on line at http://cleanairwaterloo.com/newsletter2-1.php -------------------------------- Let us know if you DO NOT want to receive this bulletin in the future by simply replying to this email and entering UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line. ---------------------------------------- -- JOIN US IN OUR GREAT WORK! IF YOU HAVEN'T ALREADY, BECOME A MEMBER FOR $25. FIND OUT MORE AT WWW.NCRLC.COM Timothy J. 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URL: http://lists.uusbhc.org/pipermail/greensanctuary/attachments/20060915/614195fd/attachment.html From jpaprocki at mchsi.com Sat Sep 16 20:12:40 2006 From: jpaprocki at mchsi.com (Jim Paprocki) Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2006 19:12:40 -0500 Subject: [Greensanctuary] Re: Green Sanctuary Message-ID: <007c01c6d9ee$03787e70$6401a8c0@userxztiolgj12> Pam: I appreciate all of your ideas on becoming a Green Sanctuary Congregation. We need to get everyone in the congregation involved in the process if we are to be successful. The Green Sanctuary Committee is charged with facilitating the process of obtaining accreditation. It is not our responsibility to organize and implement all of the projects. We are hoping to file our Application for Green Sanctuary Candidacy form sometime in October. So far the Green Sanctuary Committee has not gotten feedback on projects for the Religious Education component. Our 12 step action plan needs to include 1 project for Children's RE and 1 step for Adult RE. I would suggest that your committee implement a project in cooperation with Kathy Klink-Zeitz and the Green Sanctuary Committee. Thanks for your enthusiasm about Green Sanctuary and all that you do for our congregation. Jim Paprocki jpaprocki at mchsi.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Pam Hays" To: "Jim Paprocki" ; "Julie Fischer" ; "Kamyar Enshayan" ; "Juanita and Dennis" Sent: Saturday, September 16, 2006 10:31 AM Subject: Green Sanctuary Good morning. I am attaching a list of ideas/projects that were mentioned at the Green Sanctuary workshop that I attended at GA. Frankly, I imagine you have just as good if not better ideas, and that there are many GS resources which have similar and better ideas, but when I took the notes at the workshop I told myself I would pass them on to you, so for whatever they are worth, here they are. Also, I appreciate being in the loop about any "Food" adult education that is being done. One possibility would be to use your Dec. 3 CL Second Hour slot for the video and combine it with perhaps aneducational vegetarian cooking/eating workshop/meal at 12:30, with the > meal being a fundraiser, perhaps for GS or CL. It would be nice to feature some heart healthy, earth friendly alternative recipes to the traditional Christmas meal. This would probably end up being a 3 hour or so workshop, with video, discussion, meal, and cooking instructions. Just a thought. I love to come up with ideas for other people to do the hard work to implement. Just ask my husband. Adult Ed. meets Nov. 14 and we will be finalizing our December offerings, so I would appreciate knowing about any CL GS plans that would have an impact on Adult Ed., especially Second Hour and Wednesday evenings, before that time. Cheers, Pam -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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(2) Iowa Interfaith Power & Light The public launch of Iowa Interfaith Power and Light will take place on Sunday, October 8th from 1-5 pm at Plymouth Congregational Church in Des Moines. Our congregation does not have a representative available to attend this meeting. The committee needs to decide whether UUSBHC should become an organizational member of this organization. (3) Green Audit We will be discussing our baseline as a congregation. If you have not had an opportunity to review the Green Audit form, please take a moment to review the categories so we can establish a baseline on where UUSBHC stands on these issues. (4) Application for Green Sanctuary Candidacy We will take preliminary steps toward compiling our 12 step Action Plan.Our plan will include 12 projects or activities in the areas of Worship and Celebration, Religious Education, Environmental Justice, and Sustainable Living. Some of these activities or projects could be one-time events while others will be on-going over a period of months. A minimum of 2 activities or projects is required in the categories of Worship and Celebration, Religious Education, & Environmental Justice. A minimum of 4 activities or projects is required in the category of Sustainable Living, with one of these being an energy conservation activity. Two additional activities can be selected from any of Worship and Celebration, Religious Education, Environmental Justice or Sustainable Living. (5) Other Business We will discuss any additional issues from committee members. I look forward to seeing everyone on September 21st. Jim Paprocki jpaprocki at mchsi.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.uusbhc.org/pipermail/greensanctuary/attachments/20060918/9fa2cfaa/attachment.html