1st EcoTeam Notes : Click on triangles to reveal and hide text
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2008- March 8
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Three upcoming events
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OGGOS - March 28 ...Decision: Let's not do this one.
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Reception - March 29 ... Decision: Let's do it just like last year in Crossroads. Theme: Reuse.
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Responsibilities
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Eco cups - Joe de leon (working with Susan Holloway)
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Reusable grocery bags - Linda Stanford and others
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Lunch bag - Lennijo and Kristen
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Story of Stuff - (We'll have this playing on the big screen ) - Gary will arrange for this and prepare some kind of accompanying flyer.
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2 Easels - Tom
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Posters - Susan
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Photos of plastic bags around town - Glen (These will be playing on a laptop in addition to Story of Stuff on the big screen)
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2nd computer - Tom (for Glen's bag photos ... or Glen may want to use his own laptop)
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Bring bags from stores as alternative to plastic bags
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Examples of things we can reuse
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Coffee Cans - Gary will bring / Jo Blount provided
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Wear your button last year - Kristen had those we think
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Wear your Got Green t-shirt if you can find it
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Turn Me Off Light Switch Labels - put out a container with these so people can take them home
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Earth Day - April 19 or 26 ... Decision: We'll do a second instance of the OGGOS Reception in Crossroads. Tom Downing will provide the date after discussion with John Fiedler
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Soul Feast section on Simplicity - Tom shared the common theme
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Future things to think about - August/Sept 2009
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Food Issues
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Local Food Fair as next event
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Best time is August / September
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Post Labor Day Rally Day
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After Church or Evening Event? Make it a big deal. Part of Arts District
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Friday or Sunday night
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Partner with other churches
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Program? Rachel Carson? $2500 might be possible.
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Gary - Lennijo - Susan to share food issues with 1stecoteam
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Pre-cycling theme - Linda Stanford
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2009-Feb 8
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EcoPhones idea from Joe
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Tree Planting
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40 people for the Fall
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Agape Class and Urban Life ... other Sunday School Classes
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Earth Day - April 22
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Find out whether Tom has asked John about Earth Day
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EcoFair
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Maybe not recycling...
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Reuse and reduce - Artifacts
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Remind yourself on the two missing ?
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Tips for grocery bags
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Plastic Cups - Mugs .... having to wash the cup
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Pictures of plastic all over the place
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Plastic Bags
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Lunch boxes
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Reusing
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Cloth napkins
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Belts out of car tires
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Makeup case (Kristen)
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Grocery sacks
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Mike = A video showing a pile of styrofoam
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One ...Two Punch
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Do it whether we have a special Earth Day service or not
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See if we can work a video into the service
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Everybody look for one
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Focus on coffee cups ...
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David Korten - encouraged to watch it
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Glen will teach global warming at Susan Holloway's
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A Web Site That is directed specifically at getting new members
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Twin approach = Good | Bad .... we like it
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Next meeting of Interfaith Environmental Alliance - this Thursday a legislative meeting
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One table
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One Woman Show of Rachel Carson
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One Great Gift of Service
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Girls Inc - Susan will do this again
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LJ and Gary will not be able to be there
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Gardening Project around the church - Elise is our representative
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2009-Jan 11
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From: mike holloway [ m.holloway@sbcglobal.net]
Sent: Sunday, January 11, 2009 1:36 PM
To: Holloway, Mike
Subject: what happened sun. 1/9
-Adam and Brett (?- hope that second name is right), cousins, from urban life, came 2 meeting, and will check with programming as to when Joe can do presentation to them. Urban life has 30-40 attending each Sunday, and if we can present to them, will garner momentum for group, since their generation eco-friendly - This should be high priority to do ASAP to get them attending our meetings. Joe best to present to them, rather than old people like Glen/Mike (sorry Glen, I hope you are used to this reference like me), since he knows "youth-speak".
-I to tell wayne smith (city park board member and member of Class, etc. (Holloway's class). that we want to do tree planting in fall, and may have as many as 25-30 people, given Urban life participation. Need to verify we don't buy trees, but some organization provides, and we just provide labor. Linda Stanford and I to work on this together.
-1st eco meets every 2nd Sunday after worship
-Joe to check with First Meth. Ft. W. re: attending their group, which meets the third Sunday, and Joe to tell us details re: attending their meeting, so we can compare notes with them. Joe to go, but all others welcome.
-We to have booth, computer slide presentation at Chili-cookoff (1/25, Sunday), possibly make "green chili", Lennijo has recipe? Joe to f/u re: us giving info. re: recycling centers, computer/energy efficient light bulb disposal by computer slide at cookoff - other info. to provide by slide being considered? Staff contact Elise Daniel, edaniel@fumc.org, or 214-220-2727, ext.204
Attendees 1/11: Joe, Kelsey, Linda, Connie, Tom, Mike, Adam and Brett
Hope you feel better, Glen!
-Notes by MIke Holloway
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2008-Nov 10
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Don't forget to click on the arrows to see the rest of the notes !!!
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MORE IDEAS
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Ecophones.com a web based resource for recycling outdated electronics: cell phones, ink jet cartridges, laptops, ipods, digital cameras, and video cameras.
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It can be a fundraiser so that 1stecoteam can raise some extra money for activities.
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Our Sunday School Presentations
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We're not using the video any more in intro - It's too long
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Classes have been given to : They've been well received.
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Doubleaires
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Voyagers
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The Intro Class
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The Global Warming Class - Glen Suhren
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Recycling Drive
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To get people signed up (before the first of the year)
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Dan Northcutt - director of environmental studies for St Mark's
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Topics
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Global warming
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Renewable Energy
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Sunday School Officers Meeting
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Coordinate with Dana - join it with an afternoon choir rehearsal
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Contact Rocky about planning an afternoon youth event
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Earth Day
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What is the date of One Great Gift of Service?
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EcoFair can be part of the OGGOS
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Maybe on the Sunday
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Tree Planting (for next Fall)
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At a park?
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Mike will contact Wayne Smith about a possible planting
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A need for moderately sized recycling containers at strategic places - Tom Downing
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An eco label to advertise us
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Make sure you have trash cans
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food politics
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Northwest Earth Institute - Send info about it to ecoteam
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6 week Monday night
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calendar
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EDUCATION - This should be our big push. People are not as informed as they might be.
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What does the Methodist Church say about this. They have strong, public statements that are a part of The Book of Discipline and have been for a number of years.
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We only get 10% of our energy from renewable energy sources. NorthHaven Methodist gets 100% of their electricity from renewables.
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The 1stEcoTeam Web Site
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We need some web based videos for posting on the web site and for use in the Intro class we're offering.
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Everybody should look for good ones and send them to garyduke@gmail.com. Gary will post them on the web site.
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We'll choose one for the intro class (5 minutes on sustainability)
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Story of Stuff. This is an excellent 19 minute video that packs a punch. We'll add it to the site and perhaps even do a class. Showing the video and opening it up for questions would work nicely.
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BBC, Hadley, IPPC - Glen will send me an article to add (along with links)
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A question was asked about how to locate the 1stEcoTeam blog
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The link is on the page found via MISSIONS AND OUTREACH -- Environmental Opportunites
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We decided to change it to: MISSIONS AND OUTREACH -- 1stEcoTeam
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2008-Dec 14
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Tom - not talked
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Tom sent applicable bible verses to John Ozmun
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Chili kick off - we'll have a table where people can sign up for recycling
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Lennijo will do vegetarian chile
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Will actually sign up right then ... for the City of Dallas
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Pass out info on recycling
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Direct people to web site
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We should go for the prize.
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Bring chips and cornbread
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Susan still working on the eco fair for Great Gift of Service
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2008-Sept 14
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PLEASE NOTE: The key to working with these are the TRIANGLES (down pointing and right pointing). When you first bring up the site the outline will be fully collapsed except for the most recent notes...which will be collapsed just enough to convey an executive summary. For more detail, click on right pointing arrows.
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Possible Mission found in earlier notes (by Gary Duke at Joe's request)
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Main Approach - 3 Areas
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Personal change
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Physical aspects of the church itself
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Hearts and minds of the people
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Powerpoint for Intro Class was presented to the group
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God, Nature, and Humanity
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Biblical Basis - John Ozmun
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Sustainability - Susan (script)
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Discussion
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Kimmerer Video : 10 Minutes
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Short Story about Sustainability
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Coffee
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Migratory birds
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Commercially grown coffee vs.
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Shade grown
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Social inequity
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Triple Bottom Line
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Definitions of Sustainability
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How to Make Consumer Decisions
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1stecoteam as a response to a need
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Invitation for others to join us
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Current Issues - Joe DeLeon
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Global Issues
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global warming
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ozone depletion
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melting ice caps
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oil spills
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electriciy generation
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fair trade practices
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dead zones in the ocean
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Regional Issues
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off shore drilling
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logging in national forests
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plastic grocery sacks
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plastic water/soda bottles
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increased pulmonary disease in children (not debatable, nonpolitical)
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Local (What You Can Do Today)
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Come Join Us
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1stecoteam.blogspot.com
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We meet second
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The Intro class will be available as a Powerpoint with script so different ones of us could teach it.
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The group worked with some of the slides and agreed on changes.
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Gave 1stecoteam's presentations a name: Environmental Stewardship Series
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God, Nature and Humanity instead of Man, God, and Nature
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We brainstormed things the group might do:
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Tree planting, maybe for One Great Gift of Service in the Spring
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The light switches - *** hand out the light switch labels: Turn Me Off
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Recycling awareness drive
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Blue bins in the city of Dallas
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Using the downtown area rather than driving
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Ride DART to church : Pick out some place to go to from church
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A book study
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Monitoring your own electricity (Current Energy: wireless connection to a display, not cheap)
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Prepaid electricity cards (not available in Dallas)
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For $2000 + we could get a woman who does a one woman play on Rachel Carson
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Ecofair
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Recycling
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Bee Crisis: Texas Beekeepers Guild
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Farmer's Market natural farmer gives talks
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UMCOR products
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Sell 1stecoteam environmental bag = Tom Downing will check on how to do this
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Pot luck with people bringing locally grown foods
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DISD doesn't recycle at all - Pick an elementary school to work with ( even $$)
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Start with an elementary school
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Can be a fundraiser
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10% of our power is renewable energy = make people aware of this
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Meet with other churches like Northaven (who are doing 100% renewable)
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Environmental awareness videos
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Light bulb table - informative
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By next meeting...on October 14
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One big thing and one smaller thing
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People seemed to like the EcoFair
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Several of these ideas can be put together into a EcoFair
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Susan offered to be a cochair for the EcoFair
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Gary Duke will work at keeping the Blog / Web Site relevant and up to date
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Methodist Book of Discipline statement on care of creation - Put one on the web site
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We'll post the minutes on the blog/web site and make those available who want to follow our work but can't attend all meetings
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Gary will add Joan Cole to the Green Biz Section of the Web Site Links
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Announcement: John Holbrook and Tom Downing will do an upcoming "First the Word" class on what the end of the world might be like (to match their earlier offering on what the beginning of the world may have been like).
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2008-August 10
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Decisions
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We'll design a single introductory class then have a "catalog" of 4 or 5 additional classes we can offer as followups.
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Joe D, Susan and John O will work to design the introductory class.
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We'll start having regular monthly meetings - 2nd Sunday of each month
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Sunday School Class Options (rough titles)
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Global Warming - 2 Sessions with Glen
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Fair Trade Coffee - Lennijo and Gary
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Energy and Competing Interests - John O
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Conservation - Joe D
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Theological Perspective - Tom Downing
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Health and Air Pollution
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To Do List
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Upcoming Events
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Next ecoteam meeting on Sunday, Sept. 14
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Mike and Susan will host an evening at their home on the 4th weekend of September. Elizabeth Cummings will present the research she has done on globalization. This group and other sympathetic individuals will be invited.
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