GREEN SANCTUARY AND PROJECT NATURE CONNECT
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March 1 2008
EXCITING NEWS The solar installation is completed and producing power!
The Green Sanctuary of the Unitarian Universalist Society Announcement of Celebration and Dedication
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March 30, 2008
Celebration and Dedication of Solar Energy Systerm
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Green Sanctuary by Gaia Davis
January 2008
Great news for our Society, for our area and for Mother Earth! The Board has approved the installation of a solar voltaic system. Solar-Fit, the contractors are contributing to the Society a solar hot water heater and 2 solar attic fans. This package will reduce our electric bills by about half and will pay for itself in less than 10 years. After that, it will save us more and more money each year, as the price of electricity goes up and up!
The Green Sanctuary Team would like to thank the Board for their foresight as our Society embraces becoming a beacon for other organizations to step up and invest in the future of our planet. We intend to do a lot of great public relations with our solar.
Other activities of the Green Team include helping to insure that Earth Day becomes an event of significance in Ormond Beach. We will participate with the City at an event at City Hall on Thursday April 17th and the larger event Washington Oaks Parks on Saturday and Sunday April 19th and 20th. We need lots of people power, so let us know if you are interested in playing with us.
The Wayne Johnson Memorial Butterfly Garden plans are coming together and we will be planting as soon as we are safe from frost. In the spring, the R.E. families will be starting a vegetable garden. We continue to work on clearing “invasives” from the hammock. Again, we need helpers, so all you gardeners contact us.
Many of you have seen our new energy efficient stoves. A plumbed coffee maker has been approved, which will save energy (electric and human!), save coffee and reduce waste, plus be much safer for our coffee helpers. We will be replacing our dishwashers and refrigerators with more energy efficient ones in the future.
As Kermit the Frog sighs, "It's not easy being green," but our Board is courageously showing the way.
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EARTH DAY celebration will be at Washington Oaks in Flagler County the weekend of April 19 and 20th Our congregation will be participating in this event.
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Your Green Team would like to start teaching Earth Institute classes, so please sign-up for: Choices for Sustainable Living, Voluntary simplicity, Global warming; descriptions of each of the classes are by the sign-up sheets in the Sanctuary.
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WORTH WATCHING
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You Tube presentation takes less than 10 minutes and really tells it like it is. Please watch and forward it to your friends.
Teacher's global warming video
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This video will take 20 minutes of your time, but WELL WORTH IT!! Best
thing on the internet in a long time! Enjoy and pass it on!!
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The Story of Stuff
Interesting site
The Great Turning
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Our wonderful backyard needs some help! (again - always) The potato vines and ferns are getting ahead of us again. We are conquering them, but we need to keep pulling up the little sprouts. Kurtland is
going to be out there most Tuesday and Saturday mornings from 9-11 am, so come and join him. Of course, you are welcome to come work anytime, but it is more fun with a group. You will be amazed at what can be done in a short time. Please wear clothing that covers as much of you as possible and bug repellent if you want it. We also bring water. Gaia brings a cushion to sit on.
Call Kurtland Davies with questions 615-2427
 The Vine Squard was continuing its ardous work in the dune clearing exotic grasses and potato vines - the grandaddy root is above Kurtland's head! Barbara Schablik is putting the "last straw" into the sixth full collection bag. They broke bread with the bakers.
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