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Did you know? Free trade coffee and other goodies available for purchase the first Sunday of the month--shop and feel good about it! Be a part of the UCC Coffee Project. Buy what we serve every Sunday. Cleaning? Feel the need to purge your closets, but you don't want to just throw the stuff away? Have you said "somebody should be able to use this" ? Not good enough for our April Rummage Sale? Here is the answer to your problem--find a useful place for that stuff to go: http://thestuffstop.com Meeting Information: We are always looking for more members! We meet on the fourth Monday of the month at 6:30pm. Please join us. Committee Project Goals for 2012 1. Institute Single Stream Recycling at Church--maintain paper dumpsters and recycle paper separately within the church office 2. Investigate using greener Cleaning Items 3. Apply to become a Green Justice Congregation, and move up to Level 2 http://www.ucc.org/environmental-ministries/pdfs/BECOMING-A-GREEN-JUSTICE-CONGREGATION-Final.pdf 4. Educate the church on having a greener outlook 5. Continue with ongoing Energy Audit to look at ways to save the church money Committee projects for 2011
1. Composting? Results in less trash and good dirt for the Victory Garden 2. Reducing trash by recycling, composting, possible single stream recycling--thus helping the environment and reducing our trash hauling costs-ONGOING 3. Looking at greener cleaning items 4. Educating the church on having a greener outlook in everything we do-ONGOING 5. Getting fair trade coffee to be served and be available for purchase at St. Lucas--Finished 6. Social hall lighting to be completed, and then looking at other energy saving measures at St. Lucas-Finished 7. Making sure that all hymnals have the Apostle's Creed and the Statement of Faith in them so it doesn't have to be printed in the bulletin--saves paper and printing. -Finished |
Turn over a new leaf for 2012 and try to be greener! Each month the Environmental Committee will showcase something that you can recycle right at St. Lucas--we will have a collection box in the corner of the Social Hall. You can purge and make the house cleaner, plus be greener all at the same time! January recycling focus: Burnt out Christmas Lights Stlouisgreen.com and Operation Food Search will collect unwanted holiday lights for recycling from November 19th through January 31st, 2012. The goal for the holiday light recycling drive is to collect 50,000 pounds of lights. Materials from unwanted lights are recovered, reprocessed, and made into new products. Take them to Wal-Mart, South County Mall, or go to http://www.stlouisgreen. February Focus: Printer Cartridges: Bring them to St. Lucas and all moneys earned gets returned to St. Lucas--plus you get to clean out that drawer of empty printer cartridges you have been meaning to take somewhere...or is that just me? :) Did you know? In the U.S., incandescent bulbs will be phased out by 2014 under the CLEAN Energy Act of 2007. Nothing will be mandated until 2012, although in many areas, energy companies are offering incentives such as mail-in rebates to switch to CFLs. St. Lucas has new greener lighting in the Social Hall installed in 2011! Did you know? The Environmental Committee serves you Free Trade coffee and doughnuts every 3rd Sunday of the month in the Social Hall.
What can you recycle at St. Lucas?
In the bins outside:
Paper and Aluminum cans
(NO cardboard please)
Inside in the Social Hall: Ink cartridges, cell phones, plastic grocery bags. aluminum cans and any paper used at church. All moneys come back to St. Lucas--what an easy way to contribute! Reusable St. Lucas
grocery bags Bring Your Own Bag! Get them in the office anytime,
$3.00 a piece.
Go green and spread the word about
St. Lucas all at the same time.
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