The Green Team met on Sunday morning before worship and updated one another on the various “get-out-the-vote” efforts members have been working on this month. They also invite Keystone members and friends to also participate in these different efforts, which include:
Text banking each Wednesday with the Environmental Voter Project. The Pacific Northwest Conference of the UCC gathers on Wednesday afternoons to text voters together to encourage them to vote. Text-banking happens from 2-4 most Wednesdays, using the app Hustle. Talk with Barbara Anderson or Connie Voget if you want to know more about sending texts with EVP, or email Rev. Roberta Rominger at roberta.rominger@ucc-ccmi.org.
Jim Little also works with the Movement Voter Project to help get out the Green vote as well. You can support MVP at the link.
Green Team members also are sending letters and phone banking with the Sierra Club. You can find out more at https://www.sierraclubindependentaction.org/#takeaction. If you want to send letters with Sierra Club, you must send letters ON Saturday (not before and not after!). Find out more at the link.
Members are also text-banking with MoveOn.org. Join them by clicking here.
We also talked about Nori.com, which is a way to offset individual carbon footprints to help mitigate your impact on the earth’s climate. Individual efforts matter, too!
The next Green Team meeting will be 6:30 p.m. Nov. 4, in the Keystone Zoom space. Because of the shortened meeting, we didn’t get a chance to talk about Jim Antel’s book Climate Church, Climate World very much, so at that November meeting, the Green Team will focus on Chapters 5 and 6 of Antel’s book.
In the wake of Pastor Yuki’s departure, Jim and Rich V. will take over leadership and agenda-setting for future Green Team meetings, with Dan. O. providing tech support.