Redding Friends Quaker Meeting
Minutes for January 13, 2008

Submitted by: Lenore Frigo, Recording Clerk

In attendance were: Doris Bond, Lenore Frigo, Tom & Susie Morehouse, Doug Milhouse. We opened the meeting with silence.

1. Review of Minutes:

Minutes from the last meeting were approved. Minutes and other information are available at the website http://reddingfriends.blogspot.com/

2. Treasurer's Report (Doris)

Current balance is $2971, with regular rent due. A budget committee meeting is scheduled for January 27th at 10:00 a.m. Contact Tom or Doris before then if you have budget requests or suggestions; the meeting is also open to anyone who wishes to come.

3. Peace & Social Order (Doug)

The Peace for Earth walkers, Ruah and Louis, will be coming through Redding later this month. Our Meeting is hosting them, including a scheduled potluck dinner and public presentation, the evening of January 29th (see calendar for details).

The Season for Nonviolence, hosted by the Spiritual Enrichment Center starts this month. For more information about the various events go to http://www.reddingsec.org/season/seasonnonviolence.html

4. Business

Concerning the Record Searchlight request for letters in response to religious topics: we revisited this issue and decided as a Meeting to possibly respond to some of the weekly topics. Doug and Susie will be our official representatives to the Record Searchlight. They may work with others within the Meeting, responding not each week, but only when the subject is compelling, based on Quaker Faith & Practice. Tom will contact the Record Searchlight to designate our two official representatives

Doris brought mail from the past month, including multiple solicitations for donations. Some of those requests will be reviewed at the budget planning meeting.

5. Calendar

Sunday, January 27 11:00 a.m. Meeting for Worship (children's activity: Susie, refreshments: Doris)

Tuesday, January 29

6:00 p.m. Potluck dinner at Morehouse home

7:30 p.m. Presentation at Methodist Church (room 10), Walking in the Light, Peace for Earth discussion

Sunday February 10

10:00 a.m. Meeting for Business

11:00 a.m. Meeting for Worship (children's activity: Susie, refreshments: Richard, coffee: Tom & Susie)

Climate Change: Ideas for Action

Redding Friends Meeting
Possible Action Items to Address Climate Change

Individual Level
Unplug or shutdown appliances when not in use.
1) Be careful to turn off lights in house when not in use
2) Less use of plastic
3) More efficient source of heat for the house
4) Avoid driving to the store to buy just a thing or two
5) Walk or ride a bicycle rather than driving your car
6) Turn down the thermostat by four degrees.
7) Install fluorescent lights in house
8) Drive highly fuel efficient cars
9) Take public transit such as buses or trains
10) Avoid airplanes as they are not efficient
11) Cancel a trip – ie. to Europe
12) Heat your water with solar energy
13) Generate electricity with solar or wind energy
14) Weather proof and insulate your home – ie. seals on doors
15) Educate ourselves about the problem and solutions
16) Install ceiling fans
17) Energy efficient appliances
18) Shop locally in our neighborhood
19) Grow a big organic garden and share with neighbors
20) Build community locally. Trade goods and services with friends and neighbors
21) Assess your climate impact at http://www.climatecrisis.net/takeaction/carboncalculator/
22) Work towards a personal goal of reducing personal use of green house gases by 10% in the coming year
23) Let there be peace on earth and let it begin with me

Influencing the wider world
1) Labor with government to utilize environment friendly buildings.
2) Install billboard signs asking people to conserve.
3) When talking to people about global warming, emphasize what is happening morally. We are stewards over the land.
4) Build Cypress pedestrian bridge
5) Eliminate subsidies, so that we experience true costs. Airlines are subsidized because they are used by rich people. Buses are not subsidized because they are used by poor people
6) Roads should be subsidized by those that use them
7) Work for energy efficient van transportation for Shasta College students from remote sites
8) Build pedestrian ways and bike ways rather than highways. More walker-friendly cities
9) Less imports of un-essentials from other countries
10) Keep climate change as an ongoing concern of the Quaker Meeting, engaging in collective discernment and action
11) Network with other Meetings and like-minded groups
12) Labor with those shaping public opinion and policy to care for the earth
13) Speak truth to power in support of public policy that cares for the earth and assists the most vulnerable

(Compiled Spring 2007)


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