Green Books Discussion Group and Potluck
Thursday, June 14, 2012
6:30pm, Kitchen Lounge, Channing-Murray Building
We will continue to discuss Moral Ground: Ethical Action for a Planet in Peril edited by Kathleen Dean Moore and Michael P. Nelson (Trinity University Press, 2010). All are welcome.
Green Sanctuary Team Meeting
Wednesday, June 6, 2012
7pm, Fellowship Hall, Channing-Murray Building
Green Books Discussion Group and Potluck
Wednesday, May 16, 2012 (note day of week)
6:30pm, Kitchen Lounge, Channing-Murray Building
We will discuss Moral Ground: Ethical Action for a Planet in Peril edited by Kathleen Dean Moore and Michael P. Nelson (Trinity University Press, 2010).
Green Sanctuary Team Meeting
Wednesday, May 2, 2012
7pm, Fellowship Hall, Channing-Murray Building
Outdoor Worship Service at the San Antonio Botanical Garden
Sunday, April 22, 2012 at 11:30am
Please join us for this special event!
Green Books Discussion Group and Potluck
Thursday, April 19, 2012
6:30pm, Kitchen Lounge, Channing-Murray Building
We will continue discussing Reinventing Fire: Bold Business Solutions for a New Energy Era by physicist and environmental scientist Amory Lovins.
Green Sanctuary Team Meeting
Wednesday, April 4, 2012
7pm, Fellowship Hall, Channing-Murray Building
Green Books Discussion Group and Potluck
Thursday, March 16, 2012
6:30pm, Kitchen Lounge, Channing-Murray Building
We will be discussing Reinventing Fire: Bold Business Solutions for a New Energy Era by physicist and environmental scientist Amory Lovins.
Green Sanctuary Team Meeting
Wednesday, March 7, 2012
7pm, Fellowship Hall, Channing-Murray Building
Conference Call with Cynthia Barnett
Sunday, March 4, 2012, 4-5pm EST.
There will be a conference call with Cynthia Barnett, author of Blue Revolution as part of the UUSC’s Human Right to Water campaign. We invite everyone to participate in the call, especially those who read Blue Revolution for the last Green Books Discussion Group.
Siclovia!
Sunday, March 4, 2012
10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Broadway Street will be closed to automobile traffic from Parland Street to McCullough Avenue downtown for fun physical activities. Bring your bike, skateboard, walking shoes, etc.!
Basura Bash Annual San Antonio Waterways Cleanup
Saturday, February 25, 2012, 9am-Noon, Tobin Park
Go to basurabash.org for more information, and contact co-chairs Alexandra or David for volunteer sign-up.
Green Books Discussion Group and Potluck
Thursday, February 16, 2012
6:30pm, Kitchen Lounge, Channing-Murray Building
We will discuss Deep Future: The Next 100,000 Years of Life on Earth by Curt Stager, ecologist, paleoclimatologist, and science journalist.
Green Sanctuary Team Meeting
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
7pm, Fellowship Hall, Channing-Murray Building
Two Screenings of Gasland
Friday, January 27, 2012 at 7pm, and Sunday, January 29, 2012, at 12:20pm
A documentary about the hydraulic fracturing process (aka “fracking”) for collecting natural gas. Guest speaker(s) and locations on campus TBA.
Green Books Discussion Group and Potluck
Thursday, January 19, 2012
6:30pm, Kitchen Lounge, Channing-Murray Building
We will discuss Blue Revolution: Unmaking America’s Water Crisis by journalist Cynthia Barnett
Green Sanctuary Team meeting
Wednesday, January 4, 2012
7pm, Fellowship Hall, Channing-Murray Building
Green Sanctuary Team meeting
Wednesday, December 7, 2011
7pm, Fellowship Hall, Channing-Murray Building
Green Sanctuary Team meeting
Wednesday, November 2, 2011
7pm, Fellowship Hall, Channing-Murray Building
Green Books Discussion Group and Potluck
Thursday, October 20, 2011
6:30pm, Kitchen Lounge, Channing-Murray Building
This will be the second installment of discussion on George Lakoff’s The Political Mind and how Lakoff’s topics might apply to greening our campus and community
“Seeing Climate, Seeing Change” Lecture by Heidi Cullen
Tuesday, October 18, 2011
7:30 pm, Laurie Auditorium, Trinity University
Lecturer Heidi Cullen is the director of communications at Climate Central
Live Green Fest
Saturday, October 15, 2011
10 am – 4 pm, Olmos Basin Park
Enjoy music, good food, and visit the booths of local businesses, government agencies and organizations offering sustainable solutions
Screening of Gasland
Thursday, October 13, 2011
7:30 pm, Moody Life Science Room 102, St. Mary’s University
A documentary about the hydraulic fracturing process (aka “fracking”) for collecting natural gas
Green Sanctuary Team meeting
Wednesday, October 5, 2011
7pm, Fellowship Hall, Channing-Murray Building
Siclovia!
Sunday, October 2, 2011
10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Broadway Street will be closed to automobile traffic from Parland Street to McCullough Avenue downtown for fun physical activities. Bring your bike, skateboard, walking shoes, etc.!
Green Books Discussion Group and Potluck
Thursday, September 8, 2011
6:30pm, Kitchen Lounge, Channing-Murray Building
We will discuss George Lakoff’s The Political Mind and how Lakoff’s topics might apply to greening our campus and community
Green Sanctuary Team meeting
Wednesday, September 7, 2011
7pm, Fellowship Hall, Channing-Murray Building
Green Sanctuary Team meeting
Wednesday, August 3, 2011
7pm, Fellowship Hall, Channing-Murray Building
“Green” Rummage Sale
Friday and Saturday, August 12-13
8am-3:30pm, Fellowship Hall, Channing-Murray Building
Proceeds from sale to benefit unfunded Green Sanctuary projects
Screening of the film The Dark Side of Chocolate
Sunday, July 31, 2011
12:20pm, Fellowship Hall, Channing-Murray Building
Light refreshments and fair trade chocolate bars will be available for purchase!
This next installment of our environmental justice film series addresses the problems of child trafficking and child labor in the chocolate industry and how we can take action.
Green Sanctuary Team meeting
Wednesday, June 1, 2011
7pm, Fellowship Hall, Channing-Murray Building
Screening of the film Truck Farm
Sunday, April 10, 2011
12:20pm, Fellowship Hall, Channing-Murray building
Eats available for purchase!
This is a whimsical 50-minute film about urban agriculture and a mobile community farm. Part of our ongoing Environmental Justice Film series.
Green Sanctuary Team meeting
Wednesday, April 6, 2011
7pm, Fellowship Hall, Channing-Murray Building
Outdoor worship service at the San Antonio Botanical Garden
Sunday, April 3, 2011 at 9:30am
Please join us for this special event!
Green Sanctuary Team meeting
Wednesday, March 2, 2011
7pm, Fellowship Hall, Channing-Murray Building
Green Sanctuary Team meeting
Wednesday, February 2, 2011
7pm, Fellowship Hall, Channing-Murray Building
Screening of “The Story of Stuff” and Swap/Sell Event
Sunday, January 9, 2010, at 12:20pm, Fellowship Hall
Green Sanctuary Team meeting
Wednesday, January 5, 2011
7pm, Fellowship Hall, Channing-Murray Building
Green Sanctuary Team meeting
Wednesday, December 1, 2010
7pm, Fellowship Hall, Channing-Murray Building
Green Sanctuary Team meeting
Wednesday, November 2, 2010
7pm, Fellowship Hall, Channing-Murray Building
International Climate Justice Day film: No Impact Man
Sunday, 10/10/10 at 12:30pm, Fellowship Hall
Green Sanctuary Team meeting
Wednesday, October 6, 2010
7pm, Fellowship Hall, Channing-Murray Building
We meet the 1st Wednesday of the month!
Green Sanctuary Team meeting
Wednesday, September 1, 2010
7pm, Fellowship Hall, Channing-Murray Building (Note Location Change)
Green Sanctuary Team meeting
Wednesday, August 4, 2010
7pm, Shelley Room, Thoreau Building
Green Sanctuary Team meeting
Wednesday, July 7, 2010
7pm, Shelley Room, Thoreau Building
Green Sanctuary Team meeting
Wednesday, June 2, 2010
7pm, Shelley Room, Thoreau Building
We will now meet the 1st Wednesday of the month
Green Sanctuary Team meeting
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
7pm, Shelley Room, Thoreau Building
Green Sanctuary Team meeting: Cancelled
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
7pm, Shelley Room, Thoreau Building
Next meeting will be Wednesday, May 12, 2010 at 7pm
Green Sanctuary Team meeting
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
7pm, Shelley Room, Thoreau Building
The Green Sanctuary Team of the First Unitarian Universalist Church of San Antonio proudly presents:
The award winning documentary Fuel and
members of San Antonio’s ABA basketball team the Texas Fuel
Saturday, February 27, 2010
5pm: Meet and Greet with Texas Fuel basketball players
For adults and children 4 years old and up
Shoot hoops with the big guys on our half court
Promote “Going Green” with our youth!
6:30pm: Pizza for a Cause
Delicious pizza for $1 a slice
7pm: Free screening of the movie Fuel, winner 2008 Sundance Film Festival
Learn about the myriad alternatives to oil, 11 years in the making
A serious subject viewed through a humorous lens
Location: Fellowship Hall (Channing-Murray Building)
Please RSVP for estimating seating, food and child care needs by
contacting Alexandra Neville at alexandra.gwynne@gmail.com
Mapping address: Gill Road & Beryl Drive; San Antonio, Texas 78213
A Family Event! Free Admission!
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On Wednesday, February 24 Green Sanctuary Team members will travel to the Comal County UU Society in New Braunfels to hear retired UU minister Greta Browne present “Walking Against Climate Change,” describing her walk from New Orleans to the Canadian border as a meditation and an action to call attention to the issues of climate change. We’ll meet at First UU parking lot at 6pm to carpool to the 7pm presentation. We’ll also meet with their congregation’s Green Team. If you’d like to join us, contact Diane Duesterhoeft.
Green Sanctuary Team meeting
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
7pm, Shelley Room, Thoreau Building
Thirst: Green Task Force Movie Night Presentation
Saturday, January 23, 2010
7pm, Fellowship Hall, Channing-Murray Building
Is water a human right or a commodity to be bought & sold in the global marketplace?
Learn more about Thirst (the movie)
Free admission! Stimulating discussion. Join us Saturday evening!
Green Sanctuary Team meeting
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
7pm, Shelley Room, Thoreau Building
Renewal!: Green Task Force Movie Night Presentation
Saturday, January 9, 2010
7pm, Fellowship Hall, Channing-Murray Building
The film Renewal! is a documentary composed of eight stories of various faith communities engaging in environmental work inspired by their faith. As a faith community, Unitarian Universalists (UUs) envision a world where all people are assured a secure and meaningful life that is ecologically responsible and sustainable and recognize every form of life has intrinsic value. UUs are called to meet this challenge through education, service, witness and advocacy.
Free admission! Stimulating discussion. Join us Saturday evening!
Green Sanctuary Team meeting
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
7pm, Shelley Room, Thoreau Building
Community Gardens presentation, Wednesday, November 18, 7pm, Fellowship Hall
Angela Hartsell, a staff member with Green Spaces Alliance of South Texas will make a presentation about the Community Gardens Program on Wednesday, November 18 at 7pm in the Fellowship Hall at First Unitarian Universalist church.
Read more about the Community Gardens Program.
This informative presentation is designed to provide background information to interested members and friends of our congregation and the neighboring community.
Green Sanctuary Team meeting
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
7pm, Shelley Room, Thoreau Building
Fuund Lunch for the Green Sanctuary Team
Sunday, October 18, 2009
following the Worship Service (approx. 12:20pm)
Fellowship Hall
The Sustainability/Green Task Force has become the Green Sanctuary Team!
Green Sanctuary Team meeting
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
7pm, Shelley Room, Thoreau Building
Sustainability/Green Task Force meeting
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
7pm, Shelley Room, Thoreau Building
Green Workshop: Solar Texas
Please join us for a Green Workshop about solar thermal generation for hot water.
Presenter: Tony Stephenson, Solar Texas
Saturday, August 15, 2009, 9-11 am
Location: Darwin Room, Thoreau Building, First Unitarian Universalist Church of San Antonio
Contact: Todd O’Neill, oneill.todd@gmail.com
Sustainability/Green Task Force meeting
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
7pm, Shelley Room, Thoreau Building
No meeting in July!
Ethical Eating meeting
We will start our meeting with San Antonio Food Policy Initiative blogger, Leslie Provence. Leslie will discuss her blog, her journey, partnerships, and answer questions. We’ll find out how one woman is trying to make a difference in our community and if we have any “common ground” with her goals.
7pm, Shelley Room, Thoreau Building
Sustainability/Green Task Force meeting
Wednesday, June 3, 2009
7pm, Shelley Room, Thoreau Building
Sustainability/Green Task Force meeting
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
7pm, Darwin Room, Thoreau Building
Green Workshop: Urban Biking
Presented by Jim Stewart, League of American Bicyclists, League Cycling Instructor (LCI)
Saturday, May 2, 9-11am, patio
Earth Day Booth – Fiesta
Saturday, April 18, 10am-4pm
Woodlawn Lake Park
Free admission vegetarian event!
Green Workshop: How to Build and Use a Rain Barrel
Presented by Susan Oualline of Texas Rainfall Catchment
Saturday, April 4, 9-11am, Jefferson Building
Contact: Todd O’Neill
Sustainability/Green Task Force meeting
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
7pm, Darwin Room, Thoreau Building
Anna Lange from Environment Texas (www.environmenttexas.org) will make a brief presentation.
