Green Team

Articles

• United Methodist Women's Green Team meets with Office Depot on the Chlorine-Free Paper Letterwriting Campaign, January 31, 2006, Delray Beach, FL
• Presentation on Environmental Justice Work from a Faith Perspective To an audience of business and government leaders and environmentalists
• Green Team Guidance: How to Plan Environmentally Responsible Events
• UMW Green Team's Letter-Writing Campaign for Processed Chlorine-Free (PCF) Paper
• UMW Green Team Goes to Conference Schools of Mission
• Why should we care for our environment? -
  A theological reflection ants and acacias genesis 1
• The UMC and Organizational Policies on Environmental Justice
• Why a Green Team?
• Earth Day and the Environment
• Earth Day and the Roadside Trash (pdf format)
  What Can We Recycle?
• Rustle the Leaf's Earth Day Pledge and 5 Things Everyone
  Should Know About Chorine Processed Paper
• The National Council of Churches Eco-Justice Program
• United Methodist Women kicks off Green Team Environmental
  Justice Program
• National Campaigns of the Green Team
• What is Environmental Advocacy?

Videos

• Green Team
• Water is a Gift from God
  

Take Action This Summer:

Summer is in full swing and most of South Florida's farmworkers have
headed north to follow the harvest, many working for the same
Florida-based tomato companies who own land up and down the East Coast
in order to provide the fast-food industry with a year-round supply of
tomatoes. Though the farmworkers have moved, conditions remain the
same- they toil under the summer sun for the same companies enduring
the same conditions and earning the same sub-poverty wages as when they
are in Florida.

There are several things YOU can do this summer-- whether you are on
the road or in your community-- to call on McDonald's to genuinely work
with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers to address the human rights
crisis in the tomato fields:

1. If you are on a Road Trip....

No matter where you are on the road, big towns or small, the golden
arches are never far away. This summer when you stop for gas and see
the golden arches, stop in and let the manager know you support fair
wages and real rights for farmworkers in McDonald's tomato supply
chain. Download the manager letter here:
http://www.ciw-online.org/tools.html

2. If you are at home....

Educate your faith community about the farmworkers' struggle or invite
your youth group to do a special project. They can begin by reading
articles and watching DVDs to learn more and then share what they've
learned with your circle or unit in a pre-printed postcards people can sign to send to McDonald's.
And finally, passing out fliers or a creative action at McDonald's will top it all off.
Contact info@interfaithact.org to receive articles, postcards, sample
fliers, and other materials.

Have a wonderful and safe summer!

From the Office of Community Action, Women's Division, in cooperation with the Interfaith Action Coalition's Summer Fair Foods Campaign. Contact: SLee@gbgm-umc.org.