Category Archives: News

  1. RECY (Religious Education for Children and Youth) Weekly 4.6.2012

    Dearest OCUUC Parents, Friends and Members- We have a great event coming up tomorrow. Please join us in a potluck lunch for the Brock Family. Rev. Ed’s family is visiting us from Washington, and we would love to have you join us, Saturday April 7 at 12 noon, OCUUC. Details are below, see you there! [...]

    April 6, 2012 | News, Our Whole Lives (OWL), RECY Weekly, Share Our Selves, Uncategorized | No comments

  2. The Story of Bottled Water

    Hat tip to Reverend Karen on this one. Yesterday, March 22, was World Water Day. The good folks at “The Story of Stuff” tell the story of manufactured demand—how you get Americans to buy more than half a billion bottles of water every week when it already flows from the tap. Great food for thought. [...]

    March 23, 2010 | Best Practices, News | No comments

  3. The Major Project

    As I mentioned in the last post, we can get all the projects done except for the one major environmental justice project working with another congregation or collaborative organization. My preference for a major environmental justice project is tied toward another goal of Green Sanctuary – to quit carbon energy as the church’s energy source. [...]

    March 21, 2010 | Certification, News, Solar | No comments

  4. News and Thoughts About Climate Change/Global Warming

    Tom Friedman in today’s New York Times provides some timely food for thought and I wanted to share. Here are the points he likes to stress: 1) Avoid the term “global warming.” I prefer the term “global weirding,” because that is what actually happens as global temperatures rise and the climate changes. The weather gets [...]

    February 17, 2010 | Emerging Trends, News | No comments