Green Sanctuary Committee
Who We Are
As a subcommittee of the Social Responsibilities Council, GSC was begun as an effort to make our church more sustainable. Since these early efforts, our goal has become to preserve the global environment on which all life depends by working to make the Earth sustainable and by addressing climate change.
Current Initiatives
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1/14/21: Moving Beyond Plastic Pollution Forum presented by Judith Enck, 7 PM, followed by discussion, via Zoom. Before and after the Forum for a limited time, Watch the movie, The Story of Plastic (URL: https://vimeo.com/474183216, PW: PlasticIsEvil).
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Read Paul Fisk’s Commentary in the Times Union, “Remember reality of climate crisis when casting vote.“
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Read the recent article in the Times Union on the Faith and Values page about the Green Sanctuary Committee HERE.
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Earth Day launching of our campaign to make AlbanyUU green; UU members help us begin by taking the renewable energy SURVEY.
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The Green Sanctuary Committee supports a new online directory, www.BuyLocalGrowLocal.org. The website has resources for growing and buying locally, with a directory that is devoted to a free promotion of businesses/organizations that are sustainable or socially responsible. This is your go-to place for finding sustainable local businesses, and for supporting local agriculture, including in your own back yard. You can also refer a business on the “Contacts” page.
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GSC continues to recycle a number of items in the cloakroom that cannot be recycled otherwise, such as paper egg cartons and toothpaste tubes. See the entire list HERE.
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Read all the dos and don’ts of recycling in the Capital District written by Steve Davis of the Hudson-Mohawk Group of the Sierra Club entitled Aspirational Recycling.
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Sheridan Hollow Alliance for Renewable Energy (SHARE). See our “Working with SHARE“ PAGE.