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Christ Church
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April 2010 Earth Day Celebration at Christ ChurchApril 22 will be the 40th anniversary of Earth Day which was started 40 years ago in honor of John Muir's birthday. Plans for a variety of activities leading up to Earth Day Sunday on April 18 are under way, with guidance by the Earth Day Network (www.earthday.net) and the Eco-Justice Programs of the National Council of Churches (www.nccecojustice.org). The proposed theme this year is "Abundant Life: Worship Spaces as Stewardship." We are planning to focus on "The Living Land" for the Global Days of Service worldwide on April 17-18. The following programs are presented by the EarthKeeping Ministry of Christ Church United Methodist in honor of the 40th Anniversary of Earth Day this year.
Earth Day Sunday Worship Service
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A Sense of Place with Paul Winter and Jack & Nancy Todd; |
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The Living Land with John Jeavons, Wes Jackson, and Alice Waters; David Brower's Fight for Wild America; |
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The Wilderness Idea featuring John Muir and Gifford Pinchot. |
Celebrating the 40th
Anniversary of Earth Day
Saturday, April 17
6:30pm - Social Time / 7:00pm - Program
Being planned by the EarthKeepers Ministry, this is an educational and celebrational multi-media event.
Included will be the following:
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Astronauts speak to us from space; video-story "Wilderness Man John Muir," narrated by Eddie Albert; |
| a slideshow of the life of Archdruid David Brower and his leadership of the Sierra Club 1960-2000; |
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a video message from Bioneers Co-founder, Kenny Ausubel, on our environmental crisis - the challenge of climate change, and what we can do and are doing for a better future for ourselves, our children, and our only home Planet Earth. |
This celebrational event should be much fun and a good community-builder.
Jointly sponsored by groups such as: CCUM EarthKeepers, Sierra Club, Climate Protection Campaign, Peace & Justice Center, Earth Elders, and the Network of Spiritual Progressives.
Ride Your Bike to Church Day
Sunday, April 18
Sunday Worship Service at 10:00 am
Christ Church will be celebrating Earth Day. Join us by riding to church on your bike. Our youth will provide valet parking and watch bikes and decorate their own bikes with streamers and reflectors.
Creek
Clean-up
Sunday, April 18
After Worship Service
Potluck Lunch: 11:30am
Work: 12:30pm
In celebration of the 40th anniversary of Earth Day, the
EarthKeeping Ministry is organizing a Creek Clean-up after our Earth Day Celebration Worship Service. After a
potluck lunch, we’ll proceed to the creek site by Yulupa Circle. We’ll pick up garbage, remove invasive non-native
plants. We also act as “eyes, ears, and voice” to identify and report undesirable conditions and activities such as
illicit dumping, water pollution, illegal camping, and bank erosion. We’ll work together with the Water Agency and
the City to enhance creek corridors to provide efficient
transportation routes, safe neighborhoods, scenery, wildlife habitat, recreation, and social interaction.
What to Wear - Old clothes, sturdy shoes or water boots, work gloves, hat.
What to Bring - Plastic buckets to pick up garbage; pruners and other hand tools; picker-upper tools will be provided.
Please sign up at the back table on Sundays or contact Grace.
Southeast
Greenway Campaign Meeting
Monday, April 26
6:30pm - Social Time / 7pm - Presentation & Discussion
Residents of Santa Rosa have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to link Spring Lake and Annadel Park with downtown Santa Rosa, creating a much-needed East-West connection for alternative transportation, open space and recreation. Imagine trails, bike paths, community gardens, and more.
The Southeast Greenway Campaign is a community-based project to develop a vital urban greenway on the 1.2 mile long property that stretches from Farmer’s Lane to Spring Lake. Caltrans has expressed an interest in releasing this long undeveloped parcel. This is one of a series of neighborhood meetings organized in the next few months. The goal is to bring together neighbors, elected officials, technical experts, and other interested parties to create a vision and a plan for the Southeast Greenway. Now is the time to work together and imagine a future for this land that will make Santa Rosa an even better place to live, work, and enjoy.
What is YOUR vision? How can you help make the vision a reality? Come to this meeting and let your voice be heard.
For more information, Check out The Bennett Valley Neighborhood Association website: http://95405.org/.
Ken
Burn's "The National Parks" Episode Four: Going Home (1920-1933)
Tuesday, April 27
6:30pm - Social Time / 7pm - Film Show
(Bring finger-food to share, if you’d like)
Grace Schulman’s House (call her for directions)
While visiting the parks was once predominantly the domain of Americans wealthy enough to afford the
high-priced train tours, the advent of the automobile allows more people than ever before to visit the
parks. Mather embraces this opportunity and works to build more roads in the parks. Some park
enthusiasts, such as Margaret & Edward Gehrke of Nebraska, begin "collecting" parks, making a point to
visit as many as they can. In North Carolina, Horace Kephart, a reclusive writer, and George Masa, a
Japanese immigrant, launch a campaign to protect the last strands of virgin forest in the Smoky Mountains
by establishing it as a park. In Wyoming, John D. Rockefeller Jr. begins quietly buying up land in the Teton
Mountain Range and valley in a secret plan to donate it to the government as a park.
Please sign up at the back table on Sundays.
Creating a
Safer, More Secure, and Greener Community
A Talk by Jan Spencer
of the Suburban Permaculture Project in Eugene, Oregon
Tuesday, May 4
6:30 – Social Time & Refreshments
7:00 – Presentation & Discussion
Free Admission – Open to the Public
The talk will touch on a wide variety of topics and issues including economics, "power shift", changes in urban land use, neighborhood approaches, communities of faith, social cohesion and much more. The issues and strategies are timely.
Core elements of the presentation include making better use of existing assets and opportunities for taking care of more of our needs closer to where we live. Holistic approaches are explained that can lead to multiple benefits and while calling forth positive human potential. Permaculture - a powerful tool and system of design principles for making more effective green strategies and choices - will also be explained.
Jan Spencer has been transforming his own 1/4 acre suburban property in Eugene for ten years - grass to garden, driveway replaced with edible landscaping, 6500 gallon capacity rain water storage, passive solar redesign, food growing all over, site for many tours, workshops and visits and much more. He has also been on the board of his neighborhood association for ten years, leading to a greater appreciation for how neighborhoods are a powerful location for making our communities safer, more secure and green.
Jan is in California currently on a speaking tour. This is intended to broaden the civic discussion about choices available to individuals and communities, given the deepening global trends relating to energy, the environment, economics, culture, peace, global relations, and climate change. The talk will have widespread appeal for those interested in greener, safer and more secure neighborhoods. For more information about Jan’s projects, visit his website at www.suburbanpermaculture.org
Networking - At this forum, there will also be an opportunity for local grass-root, non-profit organizations to talk about their current projects, display their materials, network, and exchange ideas with other like-minded members of the community. Organizations include: Transition US, GoLocal, Community Alliance with Family Farmers, North Coast Chapter, Green Sangha, Sonoma County Conservation Action, Harvest for the Hungry Garden.
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