[Green] RE classes and Earth Day

Mon Mar 4 10:48:02 CST 2019

From: Dawn Hewitt via Green 
Sent: Sunday, March 3, 2019 8:42 PM
To: Green Sanctuary List for Environment Issues 
Cc: Dawn Hewitt 
Subject: Re: [Green] RE classes and Earth Day

That would be great, Rebecca!  Thanks! 

Regarding Adult RE in April: Katy Lustofsen will take April 7 to discuss Friends of the Lower Muskingum River and its projects. Yay!

Then George can have April 14 to discuss, maybe, teaching climate change to kids.

Jay Warmke will discuss renewable energy on April 21.

And April 28 is open…. however, if no one claims it, I’ll start working on an investigation of “dying green,” which is not the same as dyeing green. I’m talking about environmentally friendly burial practices. I’ll research the topic between now and then—a topic that has long been of interest to me—UNLESS, that is, someone else has a better topic or idea. I won’t be hurt. I’d actually be a tad relieved.

Yay! We have a tentative plan!

—dawn

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  On Mar 3, 2019, at 3:16 PM, Rebecca Phillips via Green <green at fuusm.org> wrote:

  I just checked the site, and the organization is sending native milkweed. (There was an issue a few years ago with one of the monarch organizations sending tropical milkweed.)  Good idea! 

  I probably have leftover wildflower seeds of various types if we want any general pollinator packets to give away.

  Rebecca

  "If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need."-- Cicero

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  From: Green <green-bounces at fuusm.org> on behalf of Kelcey Jacobs via Green <green at fuusm.org>
  Sent: Sunday, March 3, 2019 2:23 PM
  To: Dawn Hewitt
  Cc: Kelcey Jacobs; Green Sanctuary List for Environment Issues
  Subject: Re: [Green] RE classes and Earth Day 

  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

    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

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            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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