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The UUFA Green Sanctuary Committee met officially for the first time on Wednesday, May 20, 2009. At that time we discussed the process of accredidation as an official UUA Green Sanctuary Congregation.

Erv Klaas was selected to moderate the committee for the time being, but we expressed interest in building into our work intentional leadership succession.

We seemed to agree that our committment to this process would extend beyond simply seeking and obtaining this status, but that we want to find ways for us as individuals, as a faith community, and as members of larger communities to seek ways of living in accord with the principles embodied in the Green Sanctuary Process.

At that meeting divided into working groups and agreed to conduct some business by face-to-face meetings and other business by using the tools provided by this website.

Fritz Franzen's Global Warming Presentation

Submitted by Fritz Franzen on Wed, 11/18/2009 - 20:19

The pdf link provided here is Fritz Franzen's presentation, The Chemistry and Physics of Global Warming.

You can also access this presentation on Fritz's website, http://hfranzen.org.

 

current working version of the environmental assessment

Submitted by Chris White on Wed, 11/04/2009 - 09:51

This document reflects revsions we made at the GSC meeting on Wednesday, November 4.

UUFA Environmental Assessment

Angenda for Wed meetin

Submitted by Chris White on Tue, 11/03/2009 - 20:53

We will meet tomorrow, Wednesday, November 4, at 7pm in the Tower Room. Here is the agenda:

Opening and chalice lighting (Chris W.)

Review minutes of our last meeting (forum post on the committee page as Meeting Notes: October 7)

Review the environmental assessment document (attached for your review)

adding 350 video to order of service

Submitted by Chris White on Thu, 10/15/2009 - 11:50

Hi alla yall,

I'm working with Brenda to put the finishing touches on our order of service for Sunday and I would like to do a slight reversal of course and include 350 day in the service.  Fred Small has composed a song--appropriately titled 350--and the "UU Ministry for Earth (http://uuministryforearth.org/orderform.html) funded a video of Fred and Sol y Canto

October 18 order of service

Submitted by Chris White on Wed, 10/07/2009 - 21:08

This is the working order of service. Linda, could you pick closing words, too? 

We will need to get this into the office no later than Wednesday, the 14th.

Well, I can't upload the actual file, so I'll paste it in here.

Meeting Notes - Wednesday, October 7, 7-8:30pm,GS Meeting Notes 091007

Submitted by Sam Wormley on Wed, 10/07/2009 - 21:04

 

Meeting Notes - Wednesday, October 7, 7-8:30pm

GS Meeting Notes 091007

 

Agenda

  Opening Words - Linda Barnes

Survey results (10/6/09)

This is a link to the survey responses so far. We have not, as far as I know anyway, added any results from people who took the survey on paper. Sue Ann said she'd enter those values, but I don't know what happened to the paper surveys.  Anyone else know?

http://www.surveymonkey.com/sr.aspx?sm=yl_2f_2f0QxSJD_2bnWK3VdmpIbrlodSn...

Snapshot V.4

Submitted by Chris White on Mon, 10/05/2009 - 14:24

The Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Ames (UUFA) is a diverse congregation of just over 300 members and 170 youth, and we employ a full-time minister, a full-time director of youth and children’s ministries, and part-time office administrator (25-hour) and music coordinator (10-hour). We occupy a modern steel building near the campus of Iowa State University (ISU), with large plate glass windows along parts of the east and west arcs of the round, multi-use worship area, known as the Fellowship Hall.

Meeting Notes - Wednesday, September 15 7-8:30pm

Submitted by Sam Wormley on Fri, 09/18/2009 - 14:37

 

Meeting Notes - Wednesday,  September 15 7-8:30pm

GS Meeting Notes 090915

 

Agenda

   Review environmental assessments

   Discuss communication strategies

   Assess progress

   Plan October meetings

 

Present

  *Chris White, Brian Eslinger, Diane Debinski, Greta Anderson, Helen Gunderson, Linda Barnes, Pat Trimbell, Ralph Gandy, Rich Van Valin, Sam Wormley, Toby Ewing

Chalice Reading and Lighting - Pat Trimbell, Noting Tom Barta's loss of Wife

Update on Yucatan project

Submitted by Greta Anderson on Sat, 09/12/2009 - 16:46

Below is how the Social Justice Committee describes the project in the Yucatan. We are still collecting information and feeling around for what is the best "bang" for the travel and $ "buck", and have spent hours and hours discussing this project from many different angles. It began as a spring-break reforestation project; then, when we found out that 1) spring break was a good time to water and weed trees but not plant them, and 2) there was a wonderful organization, the Mani Agroecology College, that we could work with, it morphed.

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