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

[gbanz42 at suddenlink.net]

Dawn:

    Thanks for all your work in these difficult times.

    Aye on the meeting notes.

    Dave and I have conferred about the scheduled CCL meeting of March 16 and have decided to cancel. A detailed message has been sent to CCL-Marietta members. However, members have agreed to draft letters to the editor. Adeline Bailey has written (and submitted) an excellent letter linking response to the coronavirus to the response needed to climate change. We have asked CCL members to work on these letters but to hold off on submitting them (unless they are tied to the coronavirus) because the latter issue is saturating the media. 

    I have not been involved in the planning group for the Sustainability Forum but have talked with Dave B  about it. It looks like the precautions against the coronavirus will move into next month and beyond. If the Forum as a social gathering is postponed, one option is to run it on Zoom. But that has numerous complications, e.g., how to run a PPT presentation and talk over it on Zoom. It is unlikely that people whom  really want to engage in the Forum will be willing to participate in a Zoom-based event. Since the whole world is looking at a delay of 3-6 months for all public events, I would respectfully suggest doing the Forum in the fall.

     Since Earth Day is an outdoor event, we might consider participating if Kathy Ortt wants to go ahead.  CCL would like to arrange a tabling opportunity on HR 763 if the decision is to go ahead.

     The April 5 UU service as well as the adult RE sessions in that month might also be a bust so our planning for that event will have to be postponed.

     Still waiting to hear from Annie & Jay about the solar installer class.



---- Dawn Hewitt via Green <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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