Event: Electronics Recycling & Mercury Collection - Saturday, October 17, 2009

Mark your calendars!

Bring your old electronics and mercury containing items to our
Electronics Recycling & Mercury Collection Event

Saturday, October 17, 2009
9 am to 3 pm
Joe Davis Stadium

Sponsored by
City of Huntsville Operations Green Team
Madison County Commission
City of Madison
Covanta Energy
The Solid Waste Disposal Authority of the City of Huntsville

We will be collecting (free of charge) computers (CPUs, laptops, mainframes and peripherals), monitors, telephones, cell phones, telephone systems, fax machines, printers, copiers, rechargeable batteries, stereo equipment, electronic games, PDAs, electronic circuit boards, and components as well as thermometers, thermostats, mercury batteries, mercury switches, and other mercury containing items.

Fluorescent light bulbs will not be accepted at this event, please bring them to the Household Hazardous Waste Collection held on the 1st Saturday of the month.

Televisions will be accepted for a $10 fee.

Covanta Energy is offering $10 gift cards for the mercury thermostats (limited to the first 50 people bringing mercury thermostats) and $5 gift cards for mercury thermometers. A $50 gift card will be given to the first person bringing in a mercury thermostat and mercury thermometer.

If you have more than 10 items, please contact SWDA at 256-880=6054.

Our community is partnering with Creative Recycling Systems from Nashville. Creative Recycling Systems' data sanitization methods exceed U.U. Dept of Defense specifications for security and electronics disposal.

For more information contact Operation Green Team
256-532-5326 (53-CLEAN).

Event: Saturday, Sept.12 2009 - Interfaith Mission Services Volunteer Day

Just a reminder that Saturday Sept.12 is the Interfaith Mission Services Volunteer Day and one of the environmental projects is clearing trails at Hayes Nature Perserve. Please register and get all information at http://www.interfaithmissionservice.org/unity2009.html

The Day is designed for those who want to improve our community through opportunities to connect through service. There are projects for all ages and abilities - some are local agencies, others global - all can be completed in just a few hours. As we work we do that most human thing- we talk, we dialogue, we recognize one another as people who care about this world we share. The physical work will be completed that day but the experience of working with others who have differences but believe that together we can create a better world will be long-lasting.

Citizens will arrive between 7:30 and 8:00, gathering for breakfast and fellowship. From 8:00 to 8:30 there will be a unity celebration, creative dialogue, and a time of matching of people with diverse teams that will then leave to work at their site locations. The day will end at each site mid-day. The score of service sites located across Madison County with a variety of great projects will allow people to connect and serve working through diverse teams “side by side” with other members of your community.

Event: Awakening the Dreamer, Changing the Dream Symposium - Sunday, July 5, 1:30-4:30

Awakening the Dreamer, Changing the Dream Symposium
Sunday July 5, 1:30 pm --4:30 pm
Unity Church on the Mountain,
1328 Governor's Drive SE, Huntsville.

The purpose of the Awaken the Dreamer, Change the Dream Symposium is to explore an emerging world vision built on sustainability, spiritual fulfillment and social justice. Through dynamic group interaction, leading edge information presented in a multimedia format, participants will explore the state of our industrial world and the thinking that got us where we are today and critical concerns of our times, new ideas of what really matters, greater realization of our deep connections, the new global paradigm that is emerging to reclaim our planet’s future, how each of us is part of it, and the synthesis of surprising new answers empowering individuals to make a global difference through actions in one’s own back yard.

Awaken the Dreamer, Change the Dream Symposium was designed through the collaboration of some of the finest scientific, indigenous, and activist minds in the world in partnership with The Pachamama Alliance. Among the leaders who have come together and given this symposium, which began in 2005, in dozens of countries are South African cleric and activist, Desmond Tutu, Budhist monk and peace activist, Thich Nhat Hahn, environmental activists Paul Hawken, Julia Butterfly Hill,social justice advocate, Van Jones, author, cosmologist and educator, Brain Swimme, artist, environmental and social activist, Majora Carter, Achauz leader Domingo Paez and others. This collaboration explores our plante’s biggest challenges and opportunities from a new perspective and connects the participants with a powerful global movement to reclaim the planet’s future. This symposium is meant to shake up, inspire and move participants to action in accelerating an environmentally sustainable, spiritually fulfilling, and socially just human presence on this planet.