Evergreen UU Fellowship
1607 Fourth Street ~ Marysville, WA 98270
360-659-6621

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Farmers Market


Comes to a Successful Close
    The coffee hour Farmers Market is over for the winter. The Green Team thanks all who brought produce from their gardens, as well as those who made baked goods and crafts to sell to benefit the Marysville Community Food Bank.


In eighteen weeks, we donated:
Food:   145.75 lbs fresh produce
Sales: $541.25 cash from sales


    I especially want to extend my deepest appreciation to Jo and Kurt Munnich who were not only generous with their garden surplus, but took the donated produce home on Sunday and delivered it to the Food Bank on Monday. So when you begin your planting season for next year, plant a row for the Food Bank.

 

~ Barb Morrow, Green Sanctuary Team Chair


 

Community Garden

Plots Available

 
Now is the time to get in on a P-Patch community garden and start to plan and prepare for your spring planting. Two opportunities:

Growing Forward Gardens

9620  271st St. NW, Stanwood

360 629-5257
A program of the Stanwood Camano Community Resource Center provides space for people to grow their own groceries;  as well as rteaching food-growing techniques through hands-on classes; creating demonstration gardens throughout the community; growing and harvesting food for the local food bank; building community.

Wilcox Farm Community Garden
7215  51st Ave. NE, Marysville

360 659-2022
office@bethlehemlutheran.com
10’x 10' square feet for $30 per plot per year; located at Bethlehem Lutheran Church



  

Green Team


Green Sanctuary
Action Plan for Green Sanctuary Program: APPROVED

 

The Action Plan for the Green Sanctuary Program was approved by Evergreen members at the annual Fellowship meeting on June 14, 2009.

The Green Team appreciates the enthusiastic response we have witnessed from many Fellowship members who are taking action to live our Seventh Principle:  Respect for the interdependent web of all existence, of which we are a part.

The Green TeamBarb Morrow, Coordinator, Jim Anderson, Gabriele Bartholomew, Sarah Bates, Pam Gerke, Victoria McEntire, Gloria Parker, Mason Totten and Michelle Valentine. 


Questions? Comments? Concerns?

Contact Barb Morrow at greenteam@evergreenuu.org.

 


Evergreen Power Update

     As part of our effort to become a Green Sanctuary, we reviewed our energy use for our structure. Usage falls into three categories: lighting, hot water and heating/cooling. The costs to make our sanctuary ‘greener’ from an energy standpoint are lowest for lighting, more for hot water, and greatest for upgrading our heating/cooling systems. The PUD of Snohomish County offers a lighting rebate program for retrofitting fixtures to reduce energy consumption.  We have applied for that and should have the process completed by December 1.

Energy Use at Evergreen

Overall Power Consumption

Power Consumption by Area
Heating               85-90% Beaman Hall     39%
Lighting/Misc.    10-15% Kitchen                23%
  Sanctuary           11%
  Other Areas        27%


      The Green Team is at work reducing energy use in Beaman Hall by upgrading the lighting with plans to change the current lights everywhere beyond Beaman Hall to compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs).
Regarding the cost of heating water, our three hot water tanks are well insulated with blankets. We have checked and adjusted the water temperatures on all of them to 120 degrees F. The last thing we could do to improve the hot water category is to have a temp boost isolated to the dishwashing system.
We can replace our existing toilets with low volume models and reduce our water usage.


      Finally, for  heating and cooling, we can work in two directions simultaneously: creating and installing insulated tapestries over the large stained glass windows to reduce heat loss through those large areas, and ‘creating’ double or triple paned windows in all the classrooms. Read more information in the next issue.

 

Evergreen UU Fellowship accepts the $1,200.00 from the PUD Lighting Rebate Program


November 6, 2009

 

 

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Possessing Happiness
~ Jim Anderson, November 09

“Things are in the saddle and ride mankind.” 
    -
Emerson

    Anyone who has suffered an automotive breakdown on the way to an important engagement knows how suddenly and completely our cars can take over our lives – getting out of a busy road, arranging towing, rescheduling the missed engagement (if possible), paying for repairs – our cars ride us at these times.

    Karl Marx said, “Labour is, first of all, a process between man and nature, a process by which man, through his own actions, mediates, regulates and controls the metabolism between himself and nature.” The “metabolism” in our lives, through which and by which we obtain and maintain our possessions can become diseased, just as the metabolism in our bodies can.


     If we accept the influence of corporate propaganda and come to believe that our happiness depends upon the quantity and quality of our possessions we can become just as sick as if we had a serious disease. No one is happy when they are sick.

 

    Helen Caldicott said, “Living in affluence does not necessarily make us happier than we would be if we lived close to the land, grew our own food, rode bicycles, and read by candlelight.  After all, Dickens, Shakespeare, Beethoven, and Brahms wrote by candlelight.”

    Thinking deeply about what truly brings happiness reveals the truth of the saying, “The best things in life aren’t things.” The question to be asked, perhaps, is:  are convenience and happiness the same? More broadly:  how much stuff do we need to be happy? How much is enough? Do we own our possessions or do they own us?

 

    These are the kinds of questions asked by many who are exploring Voluntary Simplicity. Evergreen Fellowship is now sponsoring two Voluntary Simplicity circles where you can look into these issues.

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DO NOT THROW  IN THE GARBAGE OR RECYCLING! 

CFL bulbs contain a small amount of mercury, which requires special disposal procedures.

Put it in the basket at the Green Team Kiosk table.

The bulbs will be taken to an appropriate disposal site. 
 

 

 

Free recycling of TV & computer monitors at the following locations:

 

Marysville

Goodwill
5 unit limit

 

Everett Mall Way
Goodwill

5 unit limit


Paine Field

Transfer Station

3 unit limit


Arlington

Transfer Station probably 3 unit limit

 

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