Ecological Integrity
About Us
We are called to live in right relationship with all Creation, recognizing that the entire world is interconnected and is a manifestation of God, and is therefore to be respected, protected, and held in reverence.
We promote these truths by communicating this message, by being patterns and examples and by providing spiritual and material support, as we are able, to those engaged in transforming our relationship to the earth.
Our 13-acre site, although at a busy intersection, is a bit of relatively open space in an increasingly developed suburban landscape. We wish to exercise good environmental care of it, while preserving our historic Meetinghouse with its modern additions (and other related buildings).
The meeting secured a landscape plan and with its guidance we have established a certified pollinator garden.
We have also designed a rain garden, a children’s garden for our school, and a community garden.
We are striving to reduce mowing by experimenting with no-mow native groundcovers in our burial ground.
"We have been removing invasive, non-native plants from our grounds, working to restore a degraded woodland, and installed a rain garden and a children’s garden with the young students in our school.
We also discourage the use of disposable kitchen and dining utensils, and we are thinking long-term about a heat pump or solar energy.
We will care for our wider community by building a bus shelter at the well-used bus stop on the edge of the grounds, with a safer access than has been the case.
Sustainable Choice Articles
Arthur D'Adamo, 11/19/2020