Support Your Local Planet!

Spring is coming (really!)—and with it come a number of exciting opportunities for us to support our community and our planet. Following up on the very satisfying work party we had last year at Martha Washington Park, this spring the Social Action committee invites you to participate in a spring planting of traditional Native American foods and medicinal plants at Daybreak Star Indian Cultural Center (next to Discovery Park) on March 25, as part of our environmental stewardship commitment. GO HERE for details and to register.

This promises to be an interesting and rewarding experience open to all ages. Contact Lisa at lkjaer79@gmail.com   for more information about the QALC group that is going.

The theme for Earth Day, (April 22), is “Invest in Our Planet.” There are quite a few opportunities to participate, from the Arboretum Foundation’s clean up and restoration event (April 22, 9-12:30) to simply taking a family walk in your own neighborhood and picking up litter together. I think Seattle University’s Center for Environmental Justice and Sustainability has it right—they are calling it “Earth Month”—but then again, maybe we should be calling it “Earth Year”? How do you plan to celebrate Earth Day?

We hope you will join us at church for the Adult Forum on April 30: Eco-theology with SPU professor and biologist, Dr. Eric Long.

Finally, mark your calendars for May 7th, the tentative date for the Camas Celebration at Martha Washington Park, where last fall, we joined Columbia City Church of Hope members to remove ivy and blackberry vines, and to plant camas and giant camas bulbs. Now we are invited to come back and see the wildflowers resulting from our efforts.
Details to follow.