Our Environmental Justice Task Force challenge for February is to get in the habit of bringing your own reusable bag when you go shopping. The average American family takes home almost 1,500 plastic shopping bags a year and 100,000 marine animals are killed by plastic bags annually. How can you...
Our sewing event went great! We had about 30 people show up and made over 200 reusable bags! About half who attended were church members, the other half from the community. What a great way to help the environment and our local community!!
The First U has an environmental team – the Environmental Justice Task Force! We will have our kickoff 2020 meeting in the Parish Hall on Tuesday, February 18th at 6:30 p.m. We want to meet YOU and learn YOUR priorities for the environment. Please join us for this vegan potluck...
Make Reusable Bags for Wilmington Residents. Please join us in Parish Hall on Sunday, February 9th from 2:30- 5 p.m. when we will change t-shirts into reusable shopping bags. The new Delaware law to ban plastic bags is starting in 2021 and we want to make bags for people that...
Each month, the Environmental Justice Task Force challenges you to make changes in your daily life that benefit the environment. Our January “ask” is probably the most important one all year. What we eat has a profound impact on the planet. Animal Agriculture is responsible for up to 30 percent...
We will have a table at coffee hour on Sunday, December 8 with information on our Solar Panel Research Project. We will have information on what we have learned and we will be available to answer questions.
Did you know Americans throw away about 25% more trash than usual between Thanksgiving and New Year’s Eve? If every American family wrapped just three presents in reused materials, it would save enough paper to cover 45,000 football fields! Our Green Challenge for the month is to make some changes...
On November 15, 2019 we held our annual Vegan Thanksgiving Pot Luck. A good time was had by all!
Consider changing to wind power instead of dirty fossil fuel energy for our November challenge! You will still get the same bill from Delmarva, but your energy will be coming from wind instead. This simple move will significantly decrease your carbon footprint. The Delaware Sierra Club recently had a post...
Did you know Delmarva customers can easily change to wind power instead of dirty fossil fuel energy? The Delaware Sierra Club recently had a post on this very topic with step by step instructions on how to change to wind power, including all the different companies that offer wind power....
The Environmental Justice Task Force welcomes you to join us in our “Green Monthly Challenge” starting this month! Every month we will challenge you to make a change in your daily life to help fight climate change and be more environmentally friendly. We are looking for new ideas and initiative...
The Environmental Justice Task Force would like to share the good news that the long-awaited groundbreaking of the South Wilmington Wetland Park in Southbridge took place on Friday, October 18th. It has been a 13 year long journey with tireless work by our friends in Southbridge, as well as collaboration...