[dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”lifted-both” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#ffffff” border_width=”1″ border_color=”#dddddd” ]On September 15, 2019, the United Methodist Church of Osterville will be celebrating a milestone: 200 years of Methodism in Barnstable! Please save the date on your calendar and invite your friends and neighbors. There are some surprises in store for you! [/dropshadowbox] In the meantime, are…
AN ITALIAN DINNER EVENT! Come enjoy an Italian dinner on Friday. June 14th at 6:00 PM. Choose between traditional meatballs and pasta or chicken parmesan. Tickets are $14 for adults and $4 for children. Available in the church office. Comment below and let us know if you’ll be there!
[dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”lifted-both” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#ffffff” border_width=”1″ border_color=”#dddddd” ]Planning Your Wedding? Green Your Meals![/dropshadowbox] Consider the planet When setting the menu to focus on plant-based options which use far fewer resources than animal-based foods. Ask your caterer to use locally sourced ingredients to lessen the transportation impact. The same applies to beer, wine, and liquor….
Summer is wedding season, especially on beautiful Cape Cod. The Green Tips for June will offer suggestions for creating more sustainable weddings. Weddings can be very expensive — from travel and food to flowers and party favors — the “big day” often comes at a big expense to wildlife and the environment. But it doesn’t…
[dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”lifted-both” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#ffffff” border_width=”1″ border_color=”#dddddd” ]Gus Speth, former dean of the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies at Yale has been widely attributed to saying: “I used to think the top environmental problems were biodiversity loss, ecosystem collapse, & climate change. But I was wrong.[/dropshadowbox]The top environmental problems are selfishness, greed, and…
[dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”lifted-both” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#ffffff” border_width=”1″ border_color=”#dddddd” ] Around 1 million animal and plant species are now threatened with extinction, many within decades, more than ever before in human history. [/dropshadowbox] This stark finding is from the report released last week from the United Nations Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services. 40% of the…
[dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”lifted-both” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#ffffff” border_width=”1″ border_color=”#dddddd” ]In the “Pitfalls of Plastic” article in the Cape Cod Times[/dropshadowbox] Laura Ludwig from the Center for Coastal Studies reported that plastics found in plankton travels throughout the food chain. These microplastics contain toxic substances used in their manufacturing. A 2018 study from the Food, Health & Environment…
“Human convenience is a price the environment cannot afford.” This quote is from Madhavi Venkatesan in an April 21st Cape Cod Times article titled the Pitfalls of Plastic. In 2017 China stopped accepting our recyclables so companies in Massachusetts have been scrambling trying to find how to manage the enormous amount of plastic we discard….
In celebration of Earth Day, enjoy this Wendell Berry poem. The Peace of Wild Things When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests…