Ecominds-a Mailing List: EcoMinds Meeting this Thursday, August 6th

[Ralph Wyman (rwmuusja]

Hope you can join us!  While we know it's still the height of summer, it's
time to start thinking about September and the start of the "church year."

 

 

MUUSJA EcoMinds meeting

Thursday, August 6th, 2009

6:30 - 9 pm

First Universalist Church

3400 Dupont Ave S, Minneapolis

 

Pot-luck plus pizza!  Please bring a light snack item/cookies/etc.  We'll
count heads and order pizza from Galactic Pizza (all natural, delivered by
electric scooter!) to share.

 

Agenda items include:

 

.         H.I.R.E. Minnesota & Green Jobs working group

.         350.org Day - UU Ministry for Earth has put together a very
thorough page for this event: http://www.uuministryforearth.org/350.htm

.         American Clean Energy Act (Waxman-Markey) - Senate action coming
soon

.         Begin drafting the 2009-2010 EcoMinds proposal for MUUSJA

.         Quick fund-raising update

 

Please bring your calendars so we can confirm a regular monthly meeting time
for the 2009-2010 program year.

 

 

FYI, at a recent Green Jobs/Renewable energy working group meeting of HIRE,
the group agreed on some helpful criteria for what constitutes a green job.
The H.I.R.E. Minnesota Coalition leverages jobs for low income people and
communities of color in the renewable energy and energy efficiency fields.
Six criteria for green jobs are:

 

1. Jobs are long term - not part time, not seasonal

2. Jobs are family sustaining - wages and benefits on a normal 40 hour work
week support a family

3. Jobs employ processes and/or make products that are de-carbonizing

4. Jobs are accessible and intentionally inclusionary

5. Jobs produce a multiplier effect - they contribute to a larger green
economy (they are not "one off gigs")

6. Jobs that value the whole persons - what people bring to the workplace
besides their labor, or, the expression of community in the work-place.

 

- Ralph