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Green Sanctuary/Environment News &
Notes
GREEN TIPS
• Sierra Club Activities at
Smith Falls Sate Park.
First Unitarian Alan Vovolka and
Second Unitarian Mary Bamesberger
worked with other Sierra Club
volunteers this past weekend to
remove red cedar and other invasives
at Smith Falls State Park.
6/25
• A New Green Business in
Omaha: Blue Planet Natural
Grill, 6307 Center Street.
www.blueplanetnaturalgrill.com
6/25
• 4 More Green Groups First
& Second Unitarians Are Involved in:
- Heron Haven, a 25-acre
inner-city wildlife sanctuary at
118th and Old Maple Road. Debbie
Hunsberger works with Ione Werthman,
founder of Heron Haven.
- Loess Hills Preservation
Society:
www.loesshps.org. Green
Sanctuary Co-Chair Glenn Pollock, a
longtime prairie conservationist, is
on the Board of Directors.
- Gifford Park Community Garden:
3416 Cass Street. First Unitarian
Dana Freeman is Youth Garden
Director and recently received an
award for her work. The 2009 Youth
Garden Calendar:
www.giffordparkomaha.org/Youth_Garden.html
- Dundee Community Garden: 49th
and Underwood. Sharon Conlon and
Mary Green are Directors and Ken and
Helen Deffenbacher are volunteers at
the garden.
www.dundeegarden.org
6/25
• Farmer's Market.
Thank you to Ellen Shurson for
creating our real local Farmer's
Market and to all First Unitarians
who have bought and/or brought
things. All proceeds benefit our
church.
6/25
• Fair Trade Coffee.
Thank you to everyone who has bought
coffee at our Fair Trade table and
to Susan Grande
and Lynette Ryder who have
volunteered to help Green Sanctuary
Co-Chair Ken Deffenbacher sell the
coffee.
6/25
• To read Paul Hawken's inspiring
commencement address at the
University of Portland in May, go to
www.google.com and enter:
"You Are Brilliant, and The
Earth Is Hiring." (His
book, Blessed Unrest, is in
the Lemon Lending Library).
6/18
• Local green organizations
to which First and Second Unitarians
belong:
- The Nebraska chapter of Nature
Conservancy:
www.nature.org/Nebraska
- Green Omaha Coalition:
www.greenomahacoalition.org
- The Omaha area chapter of the
Sierra Club:
www.sierraclub.org/MissouriValleyGroup
6/18
• New Glass Recycling Site.
New recycling drop-off site at 75th
and Corby Street (one block south of
Maple). Accepts glass and all
curbside recyclables.
6/11
• Recycle Bank.
Earn points for recycling and redeem
them for valuable products and
services:
www.recyclebank.com
6/4
• Gardening Classes
at the City Sprouts/Orchard Hill
Community House at 4002 Seward
Street for adults and children. The
teachers, Bob Green and Amy Smith
are Master Gardeners. 11:00 to 12:30
on the following dates:
July 18: Cooking from the Garden
4/2
• The Little Green
Sanctuary Bookshop needs
used books for all ages on nature &
the environment. All proceeds
will be used to help make our church
more energy efficient. Our
book sales will be on the last
Sunday of every month after Sunday
services in the Common Room. We'll
also sell new books on nature and
the environment, including
publishers overruns, at deeply
discounted prices.
Contact
Helen Deffenbacher.
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Fair
Trade Coffee - On
Sale
Every
Sunday!
The
Green Sanctuary program has teamed
up with A Hill of Beans, a local
coffee roaster, to make the coffee
we enjoy during coffee hour
available for home consumption in 1
lb. and 1/2 lb. ground or whole
bean, regular or decaf bags. 1 lb.
bags are $10, and 1/2 lb. are $5,
with 30% of the proceeds benefiting
the Green Sanctuary program. Also
for sale are 1 lb. or 1/2 lb. whole
coffee beans from
Timor,
Peru, and
Ethiopia, each reflecting a
different roast. These make a fine
coffee and a fine gift, and support
your local church, business, and
planet with one purchase! On sale
during coffee hour - for more
information, contact Shawna
Foster.
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If you have
a Green Tip you would like to share, please email it to Shawna
Foster, editor of Green Tip of the Week. For more information about the environment and the work of our Green Sanctuary Committee, check out our
blog.
Updated
Jun 26, 2009
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