<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">Dear FUUSM friends,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">It was great to see so many of your loving, smiling faces this morning!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">This is Earth Week, there is no face-to-face Earth Day event in Marietta this week. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">However, we—the Green Sanctuary committee members—encourage you to spend more time thinking about and “cherishing the universe and its resources” this week, and especially, considering your own impacts on our Mother. If Orders of Service were printed up each Sunday morning in April and May, these would be the Green Tips you’d read. (Thanks to Patty Troisi for coming up with them!) </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span id="docs-internal-guid-4fc41477-7fff-8752-316f-06ebbb3b8a46" class=""><ol style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;" class=""><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: decimal; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;" class=""><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.295;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;" role="presentation" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Look up “environmental impact” of an item before buying. Pull out your phone and search for “environmental impact of ___”. You might find some new information.</span></p></li></ol><ol style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;" start="2" class=""><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: decimal; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;" class=""><div style="line-height: 1.295; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Shampoo and conditioner bottles use energy to produce and recycle. Try bar shampoo and conditioner to reduce energy and packaging. You may even find some locally made.</span></div></li></ol><br class=""><ol style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;" start="3" class=""><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: decimal; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;" class=""><div style="line-height: 1.295; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Remember the 3 Rs? Now there are at least 6: Refuse, Reduce, Reuse, Repurpose, Rot, and Recycle. And how about Recharge, Refill, and Rethink?</span></div></li></ol><br class=""><ol style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;" start="4" class=""><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: decimal; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;" class=""><div style="line-height: 1.295; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Try the search engine, “<a href="http://ecosia.org" class="">ecosia.org</a>” instead of Google. Eighty percent or their ad revenue goes directly to planting trees that sequester CO2. The results should be similar to a Google search. </span></div></li></ol><br class=""><ol style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;" start="5" class=""><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: decimal; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;" class=""><div style="line-height: 1.295; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Sign up for “Today We Will” (<a href="http://todaywewillnewsletter.com" class="">todaywewillnewsletter.com</a>) for daily e-mail tips to live more sustainably. It’s a not-for-profit newsletter. </span></div></li></ol><br class=""><ol style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;" start="6" class=""><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: decimal; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;" class=""><div style="line-height: 1.295; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Choose “no rush” or at least “two-day” delivery when shopping online, if possible. Expedited shipments cause fewer combined deliveries which means more trips and emissions. </span></div></li></ol><br class=""><ol style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;" start="7" class=""><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: decimal; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;" class=""><div style="line-height: 1.295; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Choose bar soap over body wash. About 2 billion bottles of body wash head to landfills in the U.S. every year. Reduce plastic waste.</span></div></li></ol><br class=""><ol style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;" start="8" class=""><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: decimal; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;" class=""><div style="line-height: 1.295; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">When buying a takeout lunch, consider a sandwich instead of a salad. It usually means less plastic packaging, and no plastic utensils. </span></div></li></ol><br class=""><ol style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;" start="9" class=""><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: decimal; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;" class=""><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.295;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;" role="presentation" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Letting your car idle wastes gas and causes environmental damage. Turn your car off if you are going to be parked more than 30 seconds. Ten seconds of idling may burn more fuel than turning off and restarting the engine. </span></p></li></ol></span><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><div class=""><div class="">One more thing: In honor of the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, we invite YOU, dear FUUSM member or friend, to view the film<i class=""> The Human Elemen</i>t at your convenience this week, and to discuss it at 7 p.m. Sunday, April 26, via a Zoom meeting. I’ve sent an announcement of this event to the Marietta Times, so, we hope the wider MOV community will watch also, and maybe even join the discussion!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The film is being provided by Interfaith Power and Light, a national organization of religious communities responding to climate change. <i class="">The Human Element</i> is a documentary from the producers of <i class="">Racing Extinction</i> and <i class="">Chasing Ice</i>, and captures the lives of everyday Americans on the front lines of climate change. To watch the film, visit <a href="https://www.interfaithpowerandlight.org/2020/01/the-human-element" class="">https://www.interfaithpowerandlight.org/2020/01/the-human-element</a>/. To receive an invitation to join the discussion via Zoom on Sunday, send your email address to me at <a href="mailto:dawnbirder@gmail.com" class="">dawnbirder@gmail.com</a> by 4 p.m. Sunday. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Gratefully,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">—Dawn H. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></body></html>