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At long last, the Green Sanctuary application is finished; I posted the body as a webpage that is promoted to the front page of uufames.org and as a menu item under the Green Sanctuary Committee. This file has 4 attahcments: the entire appliction and the three appendices.

Unless you alert me about egregious errors, I will submit the application in the next day or two.

Thank you all for your hard work.

Here's a pdf of the most current draft of our application. I have filled in two of the gaps--Jamie Gurganus has agreed to be the policy project lead and our endowment fund is about $160 000.

I edited the document for consistency and for length to create space for an analysis of our survey. I would really appreciate some help with this analysis because I clearly am not getting it done (I've reached my Peter Principle level of in/competence). I apologize for holding this up for so long, but I have trouble asking for help. Any Excel whizzes/data crunchers out there?

See you tonight.

Chris

Green Sanctuary Committee:

The near final draft of our application is available on the Green Sanctuary page. It is all there: the Environmental Assessment, the Action Plan, and the Communications plan.   If you haven't read it yet, please do and send your comments and suggestions to everyone via a Green Sanctuary communication.

Better yet, bring your suggestions to our next meeting, Wednesday, May 5, Tower Room, at 7 pm and join this dedicated, passionate, and congenial group of planners who will put the final touches on the document.

Helen let me know that she wasn't able to open the actual application documents, so I will attach those files to this message. Sorry.

Hi all,

I've created a page that shares the current draft of our application, but before I publish it I thought I'd run it by you all to see if you'd like to modify it. The uufames.org home page needs some fresh content!

Here is the UUA Green Sanctuary Manual.

Green Sanctuary Leaders:

I recently discovered that the First Christian Church in Ames has an environmental group.  Many of its members have gone on a low carbon diet as described in a book published by the Empowerment Institute (see web address below).  I thought perhaps the low carbon diet and other ideas from this web site might provide some tools for our "Sustainable Living" project in the Action Plan.

http://www.empowermentinstitute.net/lcd/

Erv

Green Sanctuary Committee:

We are very close to finishing the application to UUA.  Don't give up now.  We will meet at 7 pm, Wednesday, April 21 in the Tower Room.  Hopefully, we can put the action plan to bed. 

Erv

Here is what we submitted for the UUFA annual report as a .doc and pdf.

Dear Green Sanctuary Committee,

Thanks to all those who responded to my request for feedback on the work of the Green Sanctuary Committee.  Those who responded strongly supported the work we are doing and felt it was important.  No one argued for not going forward.  I don't know what to think about those who did not respond. Several possibilities are possible; they didn't read the email; they are supportive but wish to remain inactive, or they no longer care about Green Sanctuary.

My last email message that announced the cancellation of the March 17 meeting because of spring break contained several questions that I asked each of you to respond to.  The response was underwhelming.

Now we are a week away from another meeting on April 7. 

To:  Member of the Green Sanctuary Task Force

Our next regular meeting is scheduled for March 17, in the middle of spring break.  Attendance at the last several meetings has not been good.  Therefore, I am postponing all meetings of the entire group until April 7.  Please mark this on your calendar now, because we will be making final decisions on the Action Plan at that meeting. 

Erv asked me to forward this to the group:

ACTION: Call to End Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining - Tuesday, March 9th!

More than 500 mountains and 1.5 million acres of land have already been destroyed by mountaintop removal coal mining and Appalachian coalfield residents face frequent catastrophic flooding, pollution, and loss of drinking water. Residents and supporters from across the US are asking for an end to mountaintop removal and an investment in sustainable economic alternatives for Appalachia.

To Green Sanctuary Task Force:

Please attend Wednesday's meeting.  We will continue discussion on Action Plan.  Please review latest update on these pages.

Thank you.

Erv Klaas

Here is a draft of the 2010-2011 GSC budget request form (attached)

Hi Green folks,

I'm re-posting this to call your attention to the attachments. In addition to the two attachments to my orignal post, I am adding a pdf of a sample communication plan.

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I'm attaching documents that include only the our proposed action plan projects.

I've highlighted things yet to be done/blanks that need to be filled in yellow. I used aqua highlighting to indicate correpondence with requirements. The five areas (four related to the biggies and the other category) are in blue. I also numbered the projects (1 of 12 and so on).

Hi Green folks,

I'm attaching documents that include only the our proposed action plan projects.

To: Green Sanctuary Committee:

Several of us from the AMOS ert-team plan to attend a sustainability conference in Dubuque on March 9. This conference will start at 8:30 am and end at 4:30 pm or later if you want to stay for a networking reception.  The cost is $20 and you can pay on line with a credit card or download a registration form and pay by check.

To the Green Sanctuary Committee:

This is a reminder that the GS committee will meet Wednesday, Feb. 17 in the Fireside Room.  (Note the change in rooms).

At the last meeting on Feb. 3, we agreed to look over all the projects in the draft Action Plan and come to this meeting ready to evaluate and make decisions on what is to be included or not included. 

We also need to formulate a budget for the next fiscal year so that we can submit it to the Finance Committee.  The Finance Committee has solicited applications from committee heads for funds. 

Greetings green people,

I'll attach three Word documents and corresponding pdf files to this message: