Green Sanctuary

By Yetta Jager, Green Sanctuary Committee he GS committee is excited about our new environmental partner, Keep TN River Beautiful...

By Yetta Jager, Green Sanctuary Committee My mother was a gardener, and some of her advice about gardening applies to life in general....

By Yetta Jager, Green Sanctuary Committee Below is a collage of pictures of some of the plants and wildlife that live on our land. A...

By Yetta Jager, Green Sanctuary Committee It is the perfect season for hiking; cool enough to avoid overheating, no leaves to block the...

By Yetta Jager, Green Sanctuary Committee The UUA sponsored a UUA Green Sanctuary Celebration webinar to give congregations an...

By Yetta Jager, Green Sanctuary Committee The Green Sanctuary team has been busy in the past few months. Several of our activities have...

By Yetta Jager, Green Sanctuary Committee Key principles to reduce our environmental impact include the 5 R’s, Refuse, Reduce, Reuse,...

By Charlie Dudney, with Yetta Jager, of the Green Sanctuary Team Recently, the Southeast has experienced unprecedented hurricanes...

By Yetta Jager, Green Sanctuary Committee We are all addicted to plastics. Plastics have lowered the cost and increased the practicality...

By Yetta Jager, Green Sanctuary Committee Located in an affluent and fast-growing suburb of Knoxville, we are not far from the...

By Yetta Jager, Green Sanctuary Committee Delivering a bouquet of Dutch roses requires 27 kg of CO2-equivalents. A Valentine’s Day...

By Yetta Jager, Green Sanctuary Committee Green Sanctuary Blog (6-15-24) Eco-anxiety We’re headed into a hot summer. This week, heat...

By Yetta Jager, Green Sanctuary Committee For everything, turn, turn, turn. There is a season, turn, turn, turn. And a time for every...

By Yetta Jager, Green Sanctuary Committee Baby steps toward reducing our carbon footprint Our climate is changing faster than expected....

Yetta Jager, Green Sanctuary Committee Perhaps one of the most famous speeches in popular memory is one delivered by Dr. Martin Luther...

By Yetta Jager, Green Sanctuary Committee Trees are good for us, locally and globally. Forest restoration is a promising strategy for...

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