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Green Sanctuary
Green Marketplace Success
We raised over $8,400 with all of the fun events and tasty dinner offerings that everyone conjured up for the Green Marketplace. Thanks so much to all who participated in this first venture for Cedars. We look forward to many more. We’re very close to a final figure and should have it soon. If you haven’t sent your check to Sandy Bullock yet, please do so as soon as you can so we can close our books on this project.
If you have signed up for something and paid for it, you should already have your event tickets. Once we have all the checks in, we will be sending guest lists to all the donors so they will know who will be attending their events. At that point, if any further information or scheduling is needed, donors and guests will be able to contact each other directly.
Richard Wilson did an interesting bit of math and discovered that by the time all our events and dinners have taken place, we will have sparked 1,296 person to person connections. Now that’s community!
If you have any questions, or want to volunteer for our committee, contact any of us: Tracy Dickerson, Jane, Martin, Carolyn Meredith, Channie Peters, or Richard Wilson.
Wishing you good times with good friends, − Tracy Dickerson for the Green Marketplace Committee
The Green Sanctuary Committee will meet at 6:30 pm on fourth Tuesday of the month, in the upper conference room of the Sterling Building 600 Winslow Way E, Bainbridge Island. Contact Leslie Marshall or Herb Hethcote for more information.
Thanks to everyone for their support of the Environmental Film and Discussion Series over the past two months. Because of the success of the series, we will sponsor other film events occasionally throughout the year. Stay tuned for announcements of these in the Sunday bulletins.
Although Green Sanctuary has no special events planned for April, please remember that Earth Day is April 22. For updates on community events on Bainbridge Island during that week, please see www.sustainablebainbridge.net.
The Green Sanctuary Committee invites everyone in the congregation to join us in treading more lightly on the Earth during our social time together by bringing our own cups to the coffee hour on Sundays.
The Sustainability Book Group meets for discussion at the home of Herb Hethcote and Leslie Marshall at 7:30 pm on the fourth Monday of the month. We will continue our discussion of David Korten’s Agenda for a New Economy, led by Bill Scarvie. Contact Leslie Marshall for more information. The Sustainability Book Group is sponsored by the Green Sanctuary committee.
Hot tip for a cooler planet Over the course of the year, energy consumption from personal computers contributes the same amount of greenhouse gas emissions as burning 32 gallons of gasoline. You may not be able to cut back on your web browsing, but your search engine of choice can help cut back on that energy use. Powered by Google, Blackle provides the same search results as Google but on a blacked-out background, saving over 944,500 kilowatt hours of energy since the engine's launch in 2007. If the transition from white to black is rough on the eyes, try www.thegreenspider.com, also powered by Google, which saves a bit less energy than Blackle but allows the user to choose from a variety of colorful alternatives to the white screen. Source: www.uuministryforearth.org, December 2008 E-NEWS
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