[Green] RE classes and Earth Day

Sun Mar 3 13:23:45 CST 2019

Butterflies sounds like a great idea!  Thanks Dawn for your extra work (and
letting me know about stratifying--I had no idea!).
Kelcey

On Fri, Mar 1, 2019 at 9:43 PM Dawn Hewitt <hewitt at earth-maker.com> wrote:

> Okay then.
>
> George, will you please ask Margaret Clifford if we may have the four
> Adult RE sessions in February for green topics?
>
> So George and Darryl will talk about the presentations they’ll be giving
> in local schools regarding climate change for two of the weeks; Jay Warmke
> will talk about renewable energy for one session, and (I hope) Tiffany
> Harvey or Katy Lustofsen will talk about Friends of the Lower Muskingum
> River for one session.
>
> Are we all in agreement?
>
> Of April 7, 14, 21, and 28, Darryl, George, and Jay (via Annie): Do any of
> you have Sundays that will or will not work for you?  Please let me know,
> so I can ask Tiffany (and or Katy) which subset of dates will work for them.
>
> Also, Earth Day volunteers: Patty had the very good idea that we make
> monarch butterflies the them for our Earth Day booth this year. She found
> an organization that will send us 100 milkweed seed packets for $35.
> https://www.saveourmonarchs.org/store/p41/Earth_Day_2019_~_%2435_Donation_%28100_Seed_Packets%29.html
> <https://www.saveourmonarchs.org/store/p41/Earth_Day_2019_~_$35_Donation_(100_Seed_Packets).html>
>
> With your approval, I’ll order them right away, and stratify a pack or two
> (if they haven’t already been stratified), and maybe we can even have seed
> starts to give out on Earth Day, as well as seed packets. (What am I
> talking about with “stratifying”? Without a month in the refrigerator,
> milkweeds won’t grow.
> https://monarchbutterflygarden.net/cold-moist-stratification-milkweed-seeds/
> )
>
> We could also prepare handouts about monarchs: their fascinating life
> history and decline in the past few decades, and their dependence upon
> milkweeds. We could have paper monarchs decorating the booth, and have
> monarch and milkweed coloring sheets.   Or something like that. I love the
> idea. What do you think?
>
> Thanks, Patty!
>
> —dawn
>
>
> On Mar 1, 2019, at 9:22 AM, Kelcey Jacobs via Green <green at fuusm.org>
> wrote:
>
> All of George's suggestions sound great.  Definitely Katy's presentation
> for adult RE, and Jay's renewable energy talk would be wonderful as well.
>
> On Tue, Feb 26, 2019 at 2:58 PM Annie Warmke via Green <green at fuusm.org>
> wrote:
>
>> jay Warmke has a great talk on renewable energy.  Annie
>>
>> On 2/25/2019 9:19 PM, Patty via Green wrote:
>>
>> I agree that we should have Katy and Tiffany for an RE session. Wish we
>> could drum up a crowd for them.
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>> On Feb 25, 2019, at 8:38 PM, Shari Miller via Green <green at fuusm.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>> I think having them do it for the RE session is a win win
>>
>> *Sent from my LG G6, an AT&T 4G LTE smartphone*
>>
>> ------ Original message------
>> *From: *Dawn Hewitt via Green
>> *Date: *Mon, Feb 25, 2019 8:32 PM
>> *To: *Green Sanctuary List for Environment Issues;
>> *Cc: *Dawn Hewitt;
>> *Subject:*[Green] RE classes in April?
>>
>> Friends,
>>
>> Traditionally, the Green Sanctuary Committee organizes RE classes in
>> April. That’s flour Sundays for which we’d need to provide a a
>> though-provoking lecture/presentation or discussion lasting 45 minutes (10
>> to 10:45 a.m.). Let’s come up with some ideas!
>>
>> George Banziger said that he and Dave Ballantyne have been in training to
>> present climate change science in local schools, so he or they could
>> present that as RE for one or two weeks in April. I love that idea!
>>
>> Other topics, ideas, or volunteers?
>>
>> I’ll be flying to Austin, Texas, for work on Sunday morning, April 20, so
>> I won’t be here for the RE class or for the Green Sanctuary Committee
>> meeting (although I will be here the week before to assemble an agenda),
>> and, presumably, on April 19 for Earth Day events.
>>
>> Ya know, we told Tiffany and Katy Lustofsen that we would give time for a
>> discussion of Friends of the Lower Muskingum River during our March Green
>> Sanctuary Committee meeting. But maybe we should change that, and invite
>> her/them to speak for a full 45 minutes on FLMR as an RE topic?  That way,
>> the audience would potentially be even bigger than the GSC; members and
>> friends of FUUSM who aren’t on the GSC will be encouraged to attend RE
>> sessions.
>>
>> Your thoughts on any or all of this, please?
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> —dawn
>>
>>
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