Field trip!!

Water Saving Plant Fair
Saturday, March 14, 2009
Water Conservation Garden of Cuyamaca College

Vendors from throughout southern California will be selling drought-tolerant plants perfectly suited to your San Diego garden. A bounty of choices will include native plants, water-smart perennials, succulents, trees, shrubs, herbs, and more. Visit our "Ask the Experts" area to get information from landscape designers, Master Composters, and other plant and gardening specialists who will help you cultivate your green thumb! Entries and information for San Diego County's Sixth-Annual California Friendly Landscape Contest will be available. Don't miss this water-smart plant extravaganza! FREE Admission and Parking.

The carpool will depart the PUUF parking lot at 9:00 a.m. and return by 3:30 p.m. See Karen on the patio to sign up.

WATER CONSERVATION AWARENESS

The Green Sanctuary Team and the Peace Team recently offered two films linking environmental justice and peace - "FLOW" (For Love Of Water) and "I Know I'm Not Alone." For more information about these films, here are links:
www.flowthefilm.com/ and www.iknowimnotalone.com/

These resources were recommended for actions you can take:

San Diego Walk for Water, Sunday, March 22 (World Water Day), sponsored by Project Concern International. Join in the walk to promote awareness that millions of people around the world lack access to clean and safe water.

Take Back the Tap Pledge Take control of your right to water, sign up and start now by giving bottled water the boot.

The Agua Hedionda Foundation Works to conserve, restore and enhance the environmental features of the Agua Hedionda Lagoon, marsh, wetlands and watershed area, to protect sensitive land to promote balanced uses to assure future lagoon vitality.
World Water Day, March 21, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Agua Hedionda Discovery Center, 1580 Cannon Road, Carlsbad. (760) 804-1969. A day of displays and events for families focusing on water conservation.

The Carlsbad Watershed Network A coalition of non-profit conservancy groups dedicated to the protection of the four Northern San Diego County coastal lagoons and their watersheds.

Fair Trade Products for Sale, an Eco-Justice Project

Every month on the first Sunday during the brunch on the patio a Green Sanctuary Team volunteer will be selling Fair Trade coffee, tea, and chocolate distributed by the UU Service Committee in conjunction with Equal Exchange. Our volunteer for this worthy project is Marianne Swift Gifford. Please call her at 941-1955 if you can help her.

Our Fellowship has an opportunity to put our values into action by helping small farmers in Latin America, Africa, and Asia through purchasing Fair Trade coffee, tea, chocolate, and other goodies from the UU Service Committee Coffee Project.

The UUSC Coffee Project partners UUSC with Equal Exchange, a worker-owned fair trade organization founded in 1986. Buying coffee, tea and cocoa directly from farmer cooperatives, Equal Exchange follows the standards and principles of fair trade on 100 percent of its products, ensuring that low-income farmers earn a fair price for their products. In 2001 alone, Equal Exchange paid farmers almost $1 million above what they would have earned under conventional trade practices. This allows farmers to better meet their families' basic needs, such as food, education, and health care.

Magazine Exchange, Another Way to Recycle!

Do you have a stack of recent magazines that you hate to throw away because they have some great articles? Bring them to PUUF on the second Sunday of each month for a magazine exchange on the patio. Hobbies, boats, cars, sports, food, travel, politics, news, etc., but please bring only magazines from the past 6 months. Any magazines remaining at the end of the second service will be recycled.