Post by Kent Wittenburg on Jul 6, 2020 15:45:28 GMT -5
Thank you to those of you who were able to join us on July 6. As was said, it's a huge difference to be working on these problems with others in our King's Chapel community.
We started by all sharing some aspect of the environmental crisis we were concerned with. We then turned to our current project focus, plastics waste. We went quickly through the material on our Forum that represents some of what we have learned about plastics waste in the last few weeks, hoping to gather enthusiasm and comradery to do something about this serious problem. We noted that there are informal weekly meetings of this environmental group, which you are welcome to attend, and also we pledged to hold monthly, more structured meetings to focus on particular topics of concern. Next month it will be on getting out the vote.
Action items from today's meeting:
1.If you haven't already done so, visit box-pew-climate.freeforums.net , set up an account, and join the conversation.
2. Mark your calendars for Monday, August 3, for a Zoom conversation about how to take action in electing environmentally-favorable candidates. Note that we have an existing thread on that topic on our forum (https://box-pew-climate.freeforums.net/board/10/efforts-support-politicians-favorable-environment ). Watch for more content in the weeks to come, and add content yourself if you can.
3. Follow up on plastics waste problem for those interested:
We started by all sharing some aspect of the environmental crisis we were concerned with. We then turned to our current project focus, plastics waste. We went quickly through the material on our Forum that represents some of what we have learned about plastics waste in the last few weeks, hoping to gather enthusiasm and comradery to do something about this serious problem. We noted that there are informal weekly meetings of this environmental group, which you are welcome to attend, and also we pledged to hold monthly, more structured meetings to focus on particular topics of concern. Next month it will be on getting out the vote.
Action items from today's meeting:
1.If you haven't already done so, visit box-pew-climate.freeforums.net , set up an account, and join the conversation.
2. Mark your calendars for Monday, August 3, for a Zoom conversation about how to take action in electing environmentally-favorable candidates. Note that we have an existing thread on that topic on our forum (https://box-pew-climate.freeforums.net/board/10/efforts-support-politicians-favorable-environment ). Watch for more content in the weeks to come, and add content yourself if you can.
3. Follow up on plastics waste problem for those interested:
- Pledge to reduce personal use of single-use plastics. As mentioned in the forum, there are many support groups to join such as plasticfreejuly.org or
oceana.org/our-campaigns/plastics/campaign - Help our church reduce use of plastics by volunteering to draft a letter to the Vestry and Council. Kent volunteers to help organize (kentwitt@gmail.com).
- Investigate how to take action to support legislation at regional, state, and national levels. You can subscribe to threads on those topics on our Forum and post your own findings.