[Official] JOURNAL
5/14
Organic
food, recyclable stuff (how are we sorting the trash?)
Devotion
as setting the tone for the day
JOBS:
see email
SPECIALTIES:
See email
Walk,
children, walk.
(songs of
sustainability)
What did I
learn? What are my questions?
As
individual and as group—what is most important to say?
Thursday,
5/31, will begin at 5:00 for debriefing including the
Encourager.
We hope
CAMS is not sustained. It is a loser.
CAMS
reading list is “mostly resources.” Read as much as we can to
get into the topic.
For
Tuesday (5/15): PCR chapters 7 & 8
For Friday
Porter_Strategy_Society_CSR.pdf
The Social Responsibility of Business is to Increase its Profits.pdf
The Social Responsibility of Business is to Increase its Profits.pdf
For David
Green (TBD)
Groundskeeping—this
borders on a fetish at CTS
And the
jackhammer is a special touch
Institute
for Business & Theology was on campus and is now at GSU. Hmm.
Commit to
church options…
Keeping
Sabbath:
What is a
sustainable church—not just rainchains
What is
sustainable about the church? What practices would that include?
Keeping Sabbath as a militant resistance to consumerism. Sabbath is
the pinnacle and goal of Creation. If we don’t keep Sabbath, it’s
impossible to have adequate sense of thanksgiving and sense of
difference. Lose the watch and the phone; be at church. Find a
time—ideally a whole day, at least a significant chunk—no
commerce, no extra energy, no non-human powered transportation.
Cease regular routine to focus on what God gives us aka the bounty of
the Earth/relationship with God. It’s about stopping what we
normally do. Rethinking the fabric of our lives. The Sabbath is
meant to remind us of who (Whose) we are. How is time/relationship
related to all else? We are not the Creator. Sabbath is not just
what you don’t do. It’s what we do do. What do you do when the
power goes out?
But no
leaving food out to heat in the sun, y’all. On a Sabbath, how
could Jacob Medic get to you??
What
Saturday activities (eg ranger-led hike on Panola Mt)? When go to
church? Go to Atlanta Streets Alive—human-powered event 2:00-6:00
this Sunday?
CDC Crisis
Emergency Response Communication training—for when the zombies
come.
Pastors
ought to know what to do in an emergency. What to do when bad stuff
happens.
Guilt.
Depression. (Foodie, don’t let us down with the food…)
Has our leader
been rubbing folks the wrong way? Nah, seems unlikely. Except for
that nasty email to the Beltline people…
Perkins+Wills
= international architecture firm (CTS too small)
Pronounce
“Gravél” like “Miss Clavel” in the Madeline books
Katherine
Moore tour of Atlanta flora and fauna
Maybe some
evenings?
Sabbaths
=
19th
and
28th
The goal
of Sabbath—it was made for humans, not the other way around. Do
what you can…
Climate
change
isn’t
the
only
biggie.
There’s
also
Peak
Oil
(today’s
video
topic),
Species
loss/biodiversity
(we’re
currently
in
the
6th
great
extinction),
Economic
Overshoot
(pop
growth
and
sustainability).
We’re
now
at
7
billion,
which
is
double
what
it
was
35-ish
years
ago.
It,
obviously,
compounds.
Human
pop
could
double
every
30-35
years.
10
billion
seen
as
the
max,
if
we’re
careful,
which
we’re
not.
The
resources
do
not
exist.
Food,
housing,
energy.
Talking about Climate Change and it’s freezing in here
Intergovernmental
Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
We are
converting tons of buried solid carbon into gas that doesn’t go
away.
We’re a
plague upon the land.
350ppm
CO2
is
a
goal
that
might
hold
us
to
2-degree
increase.
Icecaps
and
glaciers
melting.
Sea
levels
rising
but
also
circulation
patterns
change.
Loss
of
fresh
water.
More
deluge,
more
drought,
more
political
upheaval;
more
fires,
floods.
It’s
been
in
the
zeitgeist
for
a
good
35
years.
Methane
sources: animal farming; released via melting polar caps. What we’re
doing now has impact on future generations; we inherited a problem
and are making it worse. Ah, this is the guilt and depression part.
This generation of pastors must be prepared to deal with lots of
upheaval and lots of death.
Species
extinction frays web of Creation
“Pretty
depressing
but
really
well
done”
=
Crude
Awakening
We’re so
short-term; God is so long-term
“There
isn’t anybody who’s clean.”
Those
in
power
hide
reality
because
we
don’t
want
to
hear
the
bad
news.
Any
way
to
harness
that?
(Remember
the
solar
panels
Carter
put
on
the
White
House
roof?
The
ones
Reagan
took
down?)
Journaler’s
Privilege:
one
thing
I
learned
today
is
that
I
absolutely
cannot
look
at
Bush
or
Cheney—I
am
still
that
pissed
off.
Two things
Stan is seeking in a church: connect faith with environment; people
who are in interfaith discussion. Quakers? But if you want
eucharist or songs or preaching…though power in silence. Some
Christians need to get serious about this! Prophesy. Protestants
lost track of the Creation.
Alternatives:
we need to get a lot more serious about conservation; therefore, we
need Sabbath.
Rob
Hopkins’
The
Transition
Handbook,
The
Transition
Timeline,
etc.
Some
“Transition
Communities”
in
GA.
Local
food
and
energy
and
other
resources.
Get
simple.
Get
local
Rebuild
human communities—calling for church—more intimate,
interdependent. Sustainable life.
PS:
Everything I’ve heard since today’s movie has been filtered
through that movie. Mm mm.
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