SLD Survey of Environmental Work and Needs
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This ‘survey monkey’ of UU congregations is designed to assist the St Lawrence District in assessing what might be most helpful to our congregations and leadership in moving towards environmental sustainability.
Thank you for taking time to answer the 18 questions.
*It is fine to have more than one person fill out the survey from your congregation. We welcome the perspectives of ministers, lay leaders and interested members and friends.
1
. What is the name of your UU congregation?
What is the name of your UU congregation?
2
. Please check your role in the congregation.
Please check your role in the congregation.
Member
Friend
Committee person for environmental issues
Minister
Religous educator
other
3
. Does your congregation have a group responsible for environmental issues? Please provide the name of that group(s) and contact information for the leader(s).
Does your congregation have a group responsible for environmental issues? Please provide the name of that group(s) and contact information for the leader(s).
4
. What activities do you feel especially good about that your congregation has sponsored to address environmental issues?
What activities do you feel especially good about that your congregation has sponsored to address environmental issues?
5
. Check the environmental issues that are of most interest and concern in your congregation? Has your congregation worked on any of these issues or plans to in the immediate future?
Check the environmental issues that are of most interest and concern in your congregation? Has your congregation worked on any of these issues or plans to in the immediate future?
a. None
b. Climate change
c. Energy Conservation and Alternative Energy
d. Water
e. Food
f. Species extinction/biodiversity
g. Habitat protection and restoration
h. Health, pesticides and toxics
i. Sustainable Living
j. Environmental Justice
k. Green Economics
l. Other
6
. Please check the relationship of your congregation to the UUA Green Sanctuary and or UU Ministry for the Earth.
Please check the relationship of your congregation to the UUA Green Sanctuary and or UU Ministry for the Earth.
a. Greeb Sanctuary certified
b. Greeb Sanctuary candidate
c. Congregational membership in UUMinistry For the Earth
d. Individuals have membership in UU Ministry For the Earth
e. interested but not yet connected
f. Not sure what Green Sanctuary or Ministry for the Earth is
f. not interested
7
. Check the activities that best describe your congregation’s environmental work:
Check the activities that best describe your congregation’s environmental work:
a. Education and support for personal environmentally sustainable lifestyle
b. Education of members on issues
c. Efforts to “green” the practices and buildings of your congregation
d. Legislative advocacy, letter writing, visits to political leaders, petitions, etc.
e. Witness – protest, boycott
f. Fundraising for environmental cause
g. Field action – restoring or protecting land and/or species
h. Environmental justice advocacy or action
i. Other
8
. If other is selected please describe the activity.
If other is selected please describe the activity.
9
. Is your congregation a member of Interfaith Impact of NYS?
Is your congregation a member of Interfaith Impact of NYS?
yes
no
don't know
10
. Is your congregation a member of other faith based community organizing groups?
Is your congregation a member of other faith based community organizing groups?
yes
no
don't know
11
. If yes what local or regional groups are you or your congregation working with?
If yes what local or regional groups are you or your congregation working with?
12
. What on-line resources do you use for information regarding environmental issues and or social justice issues
What on-line resources do you use for information regarding environmental issues and or social justice issues
a. UU Ministry for the earth
b. St Lawrence District Website
c. District Social Justice newsletter “Agenda for Change.”
d. 350 degrees
e. other
13
. What resources are in your congregation (skilled people, curricula, stories) that might be shared to assist other congregations in the district with their environmental work. Please give contact information.
What resources are in your congregation (skilled people, curricula, stories) that might be shared to assist other congregations in the district with their environmental work. Please give contact information.
14
. What additional resources or help do you need to move forward?
What additional resources or help do you need to move forward?
15
. Check the ways your congregation connects the environmental work to spirituality or the religious life of your congregation and the principles of Unitarian Universalism?
Check the ways your congregation connects the environmental work to spirituality or the religious life of your congregation and the principles of Unitarian Universalism?
a. Earth Day worship service
b. Classes, small group ministry, chalice circles that discuss ethical, moral, and spiritual dimensions of environmental issues
c. Periodic use of Earth-based readings, songs, and other worship elements in services throughout the year which reflect UUs relationship to and responsibilities towards the Earth
d. Congregational events such as retreats, hikes or field trips, outdoor worship
e. Other
16
. If other is chosen in the previous question, please describe the activity.
If other is chosen in the previous question, please describe the activity.
17
. Have you or members of your congregation attended a SLD Social Justice
Conference in the past four years?
Have you or members of your congregation attended a SLD Social Justice Conference in the past four years?
Yes
No
Don't know
18
. Will you consider attending this year’s SLD Social Justice Conference jointly
sponsored by the UUA Ministry for the Earth in Syracuse on October 30th?
Will you consider attending this year’s SLD Social Justice Conference jointly sponsored by the UUA Ministry for the Earth in Syracuse on October 30th?
Yes
No
Don't know
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