Green Epiphany

Urban Walk and Clean Up

greenepiphany — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 12:32:16 GMT

Epiphanites will be walking 3.4 miles through Dectur on Saturday morning, April 19, and picking up trash and litter along the way. Lunch at Fellini's. Check the website or Crossing Hall for details. Please join in!

Green Spirituality Quiet Day -

greenepiphany — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 12:30:10 GMT

Ten folks have signed up for the Green Spirituality Quiet Day at Hazelbrand Farm on April 26. We will look at some specific eco-spiritual issues and in the afternoon, write liturgy and prayers for Green Sunday. Even if you haven't signed up for the Quiet Day, you can contribute to the writing of the prayers, if you wish. Just add a few now!

RE: Stewardship around the Church

BrendaLloyd — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 17:29:16 GMT

Feb. 27, 2008

Dekalb County will be picking up our recycling, starting today. We have paper recycling bins in the work room and in the music suite. A bin for plastic, metal and glass containers is in the kitchen. Dekalb will pick up paper and cardboard but it has to be free of any particles of food. The same goes for glass, plastic and metal. These must be washed and clean of any food or soft/juice drink residue. Br. Alered, our sexton, will take the paper bin and blue bag of containers to the street on Wednesdays and return the bin again to the church. Please do not count on him also washing out everything for us.

This is a very good step for us in our recycling efforts because Dekalb County accepts more than the Dekalb Farmers Market, which is where we (members of the Environmental Stewardship Committee) were taking much of the recycling. However, they do not accept paper towels or paper plates or styrofoam to-go boxes. They also require plastic caps or lids to be tightly replaced on plastic containers but want lids removed from glass containers. Many of you probably already use the Dekalb County service at your own homes and know their program and procedures.

Thanks so much for your help in reducing Epiphany's footprint on the natural beauty of the earth that God has given us.

Brenda Lloyd

links to Georgia Interfaith Power and Light

greenepiphany — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 05:01:12 GMT

here is the link to the website of Georgia Interfaith Power and Light. Check out all they are doing with faith and evironmental stewardship. www.gipl.org

RE: Tucker carpools

AnnNeff — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 00:58:35 GMT

I live in the Embry Hills area, and would be glad to car pool to choir or the third service.

Stewardship around the Church

greenepiphany — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 18:32:25 GMT

Just so you all know, all the paper we are using in the office is recycled. Our supplier of cleaning supplies is giving us a cost analysis as we prepare to move more of our supplies to those with less offense to the environment. any other suggestions for how the church can be a better steward?

RE: Hike - Sweetwater Creek State Park - Oct. 6

greenepiphany — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 18:28:57 GMT

What will the trees and plant life be like in early October? Anyone bringing a tree book that we could share?

changes we've made to reduce our carbon footprint

BrendaLloyd — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 16:02:48 GMT

Sept. 21

I'd love to hear from people participating in the carbon footprint reduction campaign what they've done so far, whether it's starting to recycle, switching to compact fluorescent light bulbs CFLs), raising the temperature on your thermostat this summer to conserve energy, finding ways to increase gas mileage, carpooling, conserving water, whatever. The blog is a good place to share ideas.

There's a lot I'm already doing, including recycling as much as I can, keeping my thermostat set at 79 or 80 in warm months and under 70 (64 at night) in the cold months, driving a fuel efficient car (since 1974 and the first oil crisis), mulching leaves, and using CFLs. Now, I'm buyng more locally-grown food (at least from Georgia or the Southeast) and beginning to mulch food scraps along with the leaves. I've considered getting a metal tub for outside to catch rainwater (when we get it) and use it for watering plants in dry spells (like a cistern), or keeping a pail of some sort in the shower to catch excess water.

Any other ideas out there?

Brenda Lloyd

RE: An Inconvenient Truth

BrendaLloyd — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 15:39:28 GMT

	Tracy Wells wrote:
	This isn't exactly religion-related, but who all has seen Al Gore's doc, An Inconvenient Truth? What did you think? Discuss!

Gore's documentary was well done -- interesting, well-searched and provocative. But what I liked best is that it opened people's eyes to global warming and to the harm humans have done to the environment and continue to do, and the debate it created.

Brenda Lloyd

Hike - Sweetwater Creek State Park - Oct. 6

greenepiphany — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 04:32:03 GMT

On Saturday, Oct. 6, join Ted Jackson as Epiphany Goes Outdoors on a hike to Sweetwater Creek State Park. As part of our environmental stewardship, we will tread lightly on a new 3-mile trail that will drop into the creek valley and head upstream to the bridge across Sweetwater Creek. This trail passes through some of the most beautiful hardwood forests in the park and has an elevation gain of approximately 350 feet.

We will meet at the Epiphany parking lot at 9 a.m. and carpool to Sweetwater Creek State Park (about 20 miles west of downtown Atlanta, near Lithia Springs off I-20 West). This impromptu trip does not require much preparation: daypack, 2 quarts of water, lunch, and money for the park entrance fee and carpool gasoline reimbursement for those who wish to drive.

Interested and want more details? Contact Ted Jackson via email: TVJackson@aol.com

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