[Green] Virtual Green Sanctuary meeting. PLEASE REPLY with your input, comments, ideas

Sun Mar 15 19:05:07 CDT 2020

A note on technology: for some reason, I did not get the invitation to tonight's Zoom meeting, though I got the one for the test meeting this afternoon. This may be an issue for anything large-scale in April.

Have not done much other thinking as today has been spent largely on details for getting myself and Lori Fahn home two weeks earlier than planned.

Rebecca

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Subject: Re: [Green] Virtual Green Sanctuary meeting. PLEASE REPLY with your input, comments, ideas

Dawn;  Well done!  I was away and did not see that there was a meeting online this afternoon.  I am a terrible co-chair and I own that completely.

I don't see what I can do to help except to say that one thing we probably need to do is to plan that everyone that might want to join in with the forum will not be able to due to lack of broadband or technology skills.  If we can scale everything down to something manageable then it can be recorded (possible easily with Zoom or Facbook) and anyone can listen to what's been said (we could even make copies for a DVD or after things settle back down we could have a wine evening and invite people to join us to "hear" what went on and ask them to add to the list of ideas/goals we will create.  I think making everything super simple and only lasting 40 minutes perhaps on April 5th, and the on April 6th afternoon (people already have that time scheduled perhaps) we could create a good basic list of possibilities.  This is very far from the original plan but it creates a substantial amount of info to build on.  Annie

On 3/15/2020 2:23 PM, Kelcey Jacobs via Green wrote:
I already emailed Jean Ambrose and let her know about changes to come in the Sustainability Forum, and that we'd be in touch.  I was thinking she was planning on being a presenter.  I know at a minimum she was planning on attending.

On Sun, Mar 15, 2020 at 2:07 PM Kelcey Jacobs <cvspedteacher at gmail.com<mailto:cvspedteacher at gmail.com>> wrote:
1. Approval of minutes from February meeting.  Aye!

2. Green Tips volunteer Thank you Patty!  I think we should send them in to Chris to use as needed, but also resubmit later when we know we will actually be having services.

4. Confirmation of presenters and topics for Adult RE classes during April. Here’s what I think it looks like, but
April 5: Myra Moss?  Annie, did she agree to this?
April 12: NONE because of Easter
April 19: George Banziger on the science of climate change
April 26: Vic Elam on environmental impacts on wildlife, and information the Ohio River Islands National Wildlife Refuge
Hopefully by Apr 19 we will be back at the church and George and Vic should be able to proceed as planned.  I doubt we'll be back by Apr. 5, and if we are, well, people will likely want to socialize and reconnect in person rather than sit in RE.

Which leads us to 5. Service on April 5th,  for which we probably could have a tentative plan, but not something elaborate.

8. Sustainability Forum   I agree we need to do something virtual, but extremely scaled back, and suggest a weekend forum this fall.

On Sun, Mar 15, 2020 at 1:45 PM Dawn Hewitt via Green <green at fuusm.org<mailto:green at fuusm.org>> wrote:
Friends,

As promised, here is the agenda we would have covered at our meeting today, if we had had one in person, with my comments in red.

1. Approval of minutes from February meeting.
I’m attaching them again, possibly the third time you’ve received them.
All in favor, please REPLY-ALL with “Aye.” All opposed, please REPLY-ALL with “No,” or with your amendments.

2. Green Tips volunteer for April (Kudos to Michael Chisholm for his tips in the March orders of service!
Patty Troisi has provided nine green tips, intending them for April and May. They’re also attached. (Thank you, Patty!) Should we hold them, or pass them on to Chris Keller for the weekly update? Your thoughts, please!
3. CCL update from Dave or George. Dave or George?

4. Confirmation of presenters and topics for Adult RE classes during April. Here’s what I think it looks like, but
April 5: Myra Moss?  Annie, did she agree to this?
April 12: NONE because of Easter
April 19: George Banziger on the science of climate change
April 26: Vic Elam on environmental impacts on wildlife, and information the Ohio River Islands National Wildlife Refuge

Well, we know Myra won’t be here, and I suspect that we will not have services on these days. How to proceed?

5. The April 5 service is ours, all ours, every aspect of it except Randall’s music.

Myra Moss will present the reflection
Martha McGovern gave me a powerful, powerful poem by Wendel Berry, titled “Questionnaire” that would be terrific.
Rebecca Phillips (assuming she can get back into the country) has agreed to serve as Worship Associate
We need to pick a few hymns (or should we call them “hers,” or possibly “them”?). There are a couple of really super environmental hymns in the hymnal that we never sing. I propose a couple of them. They’re pretty radical!
Chalice lighting  (could be the Wendell Berry poem); responsive reading; etc.  I think I can organize the whole service with Rebecca’s help (and Chris Keller, and Randall Kidder), but don’t want to claim responsibility to do so without input from the committee.

Again, I assume this is not going to happen. Should we continue to plan?

6. Solar installer class is April 6-10.
I have submitted news to the Marietta Times FOUR times, but seen the announcement in print exactly zero times. Has anyone seen the announcement in the newspaper? I’ve also hung a few fliers around town. Last I heard, there were four sign-ups. Annie, can you provide an update?  Since this class is so small, I presume it will continue as planned?
Jay will stay with the Tings.
Dawn will provide  lunch on Monday, April 6
Adeline will provide lunch Tuesday, April 7
George will provide lunch Wednesday, April 8
Cindy will provide lunch Thursday, April 9
We need one more volunteer for Friday (or, Dawn is willing to swap for Monday).

7. Earth Day Marietta is 10-2 Saturday, April 18.
Canopies
Solar gadgets
Coloring for kids
My trusty portable clothes line
Do we want to do anything new this year? Handouts? CCL stuff?  It’s the 50th anniversary, after all!
Hippie theme?
Banner from the children’s RE?
According to its Facebook page, this event is still on, but I’ve written to organizer Kathy Ortt to verify. She might still be trying to decide (and that’s okay, too).  I’ll let you all know what she says as soon as I receive it. Meanwhile, uh. what to do?  Just wait and see, I guess.

8. Sustainability Forum
Next meeting will be Monday, March 16, at 7:15 p.m. (immediately following CCL)
Update on progress for GSC members who aren’t on planning subcommittee
As of 1:38 p.m. Sunday, March 15, the planning committee will meet virtually.
We know this much about the Sustainable Marietta Forum: Myra Moss will not be able to attend in person (but she’s still willing and eager to help us out); there will be no Just Dinner, and no lunch on Saturday. Workshops and the panel discussion will not be held in person on Saturday. There will be no Sunday afternoon discussion in person.
The planning committee is already looking for virtual alternatives: A Zoom meeting, or a webinar; and probably postponing the in-person event until we get an all-clear signal from officials we trust.
We DO NOT want to lose the momentum we have built for this event, so we want to do SOMETHING, and we need to decide ASAP what that something will be. STAY TUNED.
>>>There its a separate mailing list (just a reply-all list) of those who have been involved in the sustainability forum planning subcommittee so as not to bother every single GSC member with email they don’t want. If you would like to be added to that list, please let me know! We’d be thrilled to have your ideas and input, and I’d be glad to add you to that list!! <<

Now, it’s your turn!  Please reply with your input and ideas!!  I need your help with all of the above!!!  Thanks, and virtual hugs.  —dawn

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