Announcing our first UUCWC Outdoor Adventure of 2012: A Hike on Baldpate Mountain – Sunday January 29th (Weather Permitting). We are offering a soup and bread lunch at UUCWC 12:15 so we can talk about plans for hikes and outdoor activities in 2012. We will carpool from UUCWC at around 1PM. For details: see the [...]
On Sunday, April 17 at 2:30pm, UUCWC will host a screening and discussion of under our skin, a documentary that follows several adults and children whose health deteriorated seriously when their Lyme disease was not diagnosed. This captivating movie — a “best documentary” winner at several regional film festivals this year — also examines the political [...]
Green Covenant: Living in Right Relationship with Earth Saturday, March 19, 9am – 4pm Community Unitarian Church at White Plains This conference is sponsored by the UU Ministry for Earth and the UU District of Metropolitan NY. It will feature a keynote address by Rev. Fletcher Harper, the Executive Director of Green Faith, and and [...]
A confusing variety of wet wipes are on the shelves of grocery and drug stores. They are even showing up next to shopping carts at grocery stores. Read the fine print if you are thinking of buying or using them. Don’t presume they can be used safely to wipe hands and faces. Some are only [...]
The next gathering of the Sustainability Circle will be Saturday, Feb. 26 at 6:30 pm. We will start with a vegetarian potluck dinner and will follow with a presentation by Geri LaPlaca, executive director of Your ReSource, a not-forprofit corporation in Ewing. Your ReSource collects donations of gently used home medical equipment, refurbishes these items, [...]
The next sale of used books and other media, sponsored by Sustainability Circle, will be held on Sunday, Dec. 12 in the Crossings Room. Donations are welcome and can be dropped off in the main lobby any time up to the morning of the sale. Other arrangements can be made by calling Al Johnson. Proceeds [...]
With all the media hype about the bedbug resurgence and the big “icky” and “shameful” factors, it is easy to understand why people panic and use pesticides in an attempt to wipe out the little blood suckers. But bed bugs are becoming resistant to poisons, and the cure may be worse than the problem. That’s [...]
The Sustainability Circle will gather on Saturday, Nov. 20, at 6:30 pm at the home of Janet Hubbard. All are welcome. We will begin with a vegetarian potluck dinner. Possible agenda items include a follow-up discussion of the climate change presentation at the October meeting, possible improvements to the outside compost bin, allocation of excess [...]
The combined global land and ocean-surface temperature made this July the second warmest on record, behind 1998, and the warmest averaged January–July on record, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reported Aug. 13: www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2010/20100813_globalstats.html. The New York Times reported on Aug. 14 that if the earth were not warming, random variations in the weather should [...]
Many of us have little space for a garden. Tomatoes are a favorite and can be a good producer in a small area. if you tried tomatoes for the first time last year, you might think you have a black thumb. The tomato crop all over the northeast died very early and only gardens in [...]
