[Fuusm-l] Green things for Earth Week

[Dawn Hewitt]

Dear FUUSM friends,

It was great to see so many of your loving, smiling faces this morning!

This is Earth Week, there is no face-to-face Earth Day event in Marietta this week. 

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!)  


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.

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.

Remember the 3 Rs? Now there are at least 6: Refuse, Reduce, Reuse, Repurpose, Rot, and Recycle.  And how about Recharge, Refill, and Rethink?

Try the search engine, “ecosia.org” 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. 

Sign up for “Today We Will” (todaywewillnewsletter.com) for daily e-mail tips to live more sustainably. It’s a not-for-profit newsletter. 

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. 

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.

When buying a takeout lunch, consider a sandwich instead of a salad. It usually means less plastic packaging, and no plastic utensils. 

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. 


One more thing: In honor of the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, we invite YOU, dear FUUSM member or friend, to view the film The Human Element 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!

The film is being provided by Interfaith Power and Light, a national organization of religious communities responding to climate change. The Human Element is a documentary from the producers of Racing Extinction and Chasing Ice, and captures the lives of everyday Americans on the front lines of climate change. To watch the film, visit  https://www.interfaithpowerandlight.org/2020/01/the-human-element <https://www.interfaithpowerandlight.org/2020/01/the-human-element>/. To receive an invitation to join the discussion via Zoom on Sunday, send your email address to me at dawnbirder at gmail.com by 4 p.m. Sunday. 

Gratefully,

—Dawn H. 

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