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Spread he planned this man and through space. Your guard and you're a harbour. You're 

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a whole play. 

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Gold son go and gentle blue gi. And sir. 

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Say the morning lie 

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All right, sorry about that. Oh, that was pretty planet.. But someone cheapen those songs. I really, really 

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like to do this time of year with my students at school, so since I couldn't do it with em, you guys got stuck with it this morning when I share some opening words by William Schulz 

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, simply cherish the earth regardless of our differences. There are a host of affirmations that we embrace as the basis 

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for our faith. Whatever we think the holy may be, creation itself is holy. We make no distinction 

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between the natural and the supernatural, the secular and the sacred. We simply cherish the earth and all its creatures, the stars and all the glory 

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lives. Gifts are available to everyone, not just the chosen or the saved. 

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Only human artifice or blind ill fortune can separate us from the source of our blessings. That which is divine, precious, or profound is made evident and 

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not made evident, not in the miraculous or the other worldly, but in the simple and the everyday. We look not to the heavens 

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, or an afterlife or meaning, but to the exuberance of this life's unfolding. Human beings themselves are responsible for the planet 

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and its future. Social and environmental justice is a religious obligation. The future is never faded. Every one of us 

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is held and creation's hand we share its burdens and its radiance. Hence, strangers need not be enemies. The earth is our cherished 

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home. All of its inhabitants, our companions. Though death confronts us all. We love life all the more. Perhaps because 

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we will lose it in honorable and impassioned life may not deny death its due. But it surely can deny it. 

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Deny it of its victory. Thank you. All right. We will share our mission statement. Just go ahead. Remain 

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muted. But let's say it together. We gather as an inclusive community to inspire spiritual growth, compassionate living and joyful service. 

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And our chalice lighting words this morning. Our Bilin Harrison and I've used this chalice lighting several times before, but each 

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time we're doing anything that has to do with nature or our planet, I'd like to come back to it. It's called committed to respond, committed 

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to respond to the call of a wounded world. We joined together this day with loving hearts, hands and minds, embracing the interconnected web of water, air 

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and earth. We light a fire of sustaining Hope Everbright with love and justice. May we bring forth this day new wisdom, strength and courage 

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to create a new world not of wealth, but of well-being, a world of new peace and abundance for all. As we give thanks for this earth 

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, our shared and singular home, may we dedicate ourselves to its ongoing care, rising to the call deep within us and all around us. May we respond today? 

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always with courage and with love? 

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And we will now have our first hymn 

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to the beauty of the Earth. 

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My next reading is by Christopher Abuse of River 

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. Once upon a time, there were two rivers flowing side by side. Both 

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rivers liked to argue about who was best. The water in my river is better than the water in your river, said one. No. The water 

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in my river is better than the water in your river, said the other. The two rivers would flow along all day, arguing about which river was the best. 

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Both were quite sure that they were the greatest. Doesn't my water make joyful sound as it runs over the smooth, polished pebbles on the bottom 

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? And look at the way the sun reflects off the ripples in the eddies that form around the granite boulders at my edge. These things are so beautiful. 

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Surely I am the best river, said one. The other river replied. Oh, but look at all the fish. This woman, my clear, cool water 

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. And have you heard the frog singing that night? They live in the reeds and the lilies that grow up on my banks. I am home to so many wonderful creatures 

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, girlie. I must be the very best river. The two continued to argue, until one day something strange and unexpected happened. 

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The rivers rounded a bend, slid down a small falls, and suddenly saw that they were flowing towards something much bigger and much 

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greater than themselves. Up ahead were big crashing waves and water everywhere for as far as they could see. They continued to rush 

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faster and faster until the water from both rivers churned together into the vast, enormous ocean. Then a sound came from the sky 

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. It came from a cloud that chuckled for a moment, and then said, Now you see how foolish you've been arguing about who is the best 

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. There is no highest or lowest. There is no greatest or least all things are one, and all things are joined together like rivers 

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And with that, I would like to share a song with you guys. This is another one that 

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you really like to use for teaching this year. It's another Tom Chapin song. It's called The Wheel of the Water. And it's basically just a poetic description 

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of the water cycle. But one of my favorite things about this and I'll share it with you guys and I hope that you'll listen for it and enjoy it is the use of 

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text painting or word painting. And you'll notice that whichever direction the water is going in this water cycle, 

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that's the direction of the melody. So there's one continuous line that says the wheel of the water go round and round. And it keeps continuing and never ends throughout the entirety. 

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the song. And then all the other things, the melodic direction will reflect the way of the water moving. I hope you enjoy it. 

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OK. My favorite was the way that springs bubble bubble up almost sounded like bubbles when they sang it 

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. I love that piece. We are now ready for our sermon and I'm really excited the day because Norma Scarlett is going to be our speaker 

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. She's been a service coordinator. I think this is the first time that she's actually spoken. And I'm just really proud of her and thrilled that she is doing this for us. 

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She's having a little bit of fluctuation with her Wi-Fi signal a little bit early earlier. So we're going to probably just stick 

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to just doing the audio and listening. And so I'll leave the picture of the chalice up. But we're just going to do the audio feed 

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right now. And if we run into problems, we may have to stop and do 

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a phone call. Leon, if the wifi has not terribly strong signal. So ask your patients and if we have any technical difficulties. Thank you. 

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Thank you. Tracy, I love that song. I'd never heard it before. It was beautiful. Can you hear me? 

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Yes. You're coming through just fine. OK. Well, I'd like to start with a quotation from John Muir

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. I was in the mountains thinking the quad, then in church thinking about the mountains. Today we're celebrating 

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50 years of Earth Day. I'd like to start by looking at the history of Earth Day, looking at Earth Day today and its goals 

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. And then I'm going to talk about one what one man is doing to help the ecology and provide some steps 

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that we could all take individually. That would have a great effect. A lot of people do them. So that's what I'll be doing today. 

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So they started in 1970. Of course I was there. People were protesting environmental ignorance. 

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There were some severe, terrible oil spills. There was smog. In fact, I lived in Los Angeles at the time. And when you would fly into Los Angeles, 

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there was just an unbelievable cloud of smog hanging over. As you approach that, you could see way before you could see the city. And 

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even rivers were on fire. So it seems amazing. But we did have that 

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. The founder of Earth Day was Senator Gaylord Nelson from Wisconsin. He had the idea of a national 

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day to focus on the environment. He asked Pete McCloskey, a Republican conservative, to co-chair the program with him. They hired a 

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national coordinator, Dennis Hays, from Harvard. Hayes developed a staff of 85 people to promote events across America. 

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On the first Earth Day, 20 million Americans, which was one tenth of the population 

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. America at the time on college campuses in hundreds of cities, demanded action to clean up the air in waterways. And in 

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fact, their demands didley to benchmark passage of legislation, including the Clean Air Act, the water and Endangered Species Acts 

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Earth. They pulled many groups under it. Some bro Republicans and Democrats, rich and poor, urban and rural business and labor 

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in 1990. Earth Day continued every year. But in 1990, Earth Day went global. President Clinton ordered Senator Gaylord Nelson 

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the Presidential Medal of Freedom for his role as an Earth Day founder. Today, Earth Day is considered the largest secular observance 

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in the world. One of the major challenges is the use of plastic plastic fish. Slime was first noted in the ocean in the 1950s 

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. The first plastic carry bag was seen in nineteen sixty five in the ocean. Now there are five huge masses 

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plastic garbage in the oceans. One between California and Hawaii is the size of Texas. 

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Every year, approximately 8 million metric tons of plastic is thrown in the ocean. I can't even 

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begin to imagine how much that is. Sea turtles are surface traders and they are caught as bycatch in the Pacific dump 

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and are found to have up to 74 percent Badraie weight. Their dad composed of plastics. Another problem caused by 

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plastic is disease. In Kolbert's, the incidence of disease from coral beds increases from 4 percent to 89 percent 

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after coming in contact with plastic when plastic bags first came out. We thought we were saving trees by using plastic. Little did 

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we know we were jumping out of the frying pan into the fire. Of course it's important to recycle your plastic if possible, and I'm sure that everybody knows that Kroger 

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and Publix both have recycling for plastic bags 

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. But the truth is that plastic lasts forever. So the goal is to use this little plastic as possible 

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. I tried too hard to avoid plastic, but you look around and it is everywhere. So 

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you just try to consider that plastic is always there. Recycling is the goal, but the real goal is to just not use it. 

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So back to Earth Day 2020. Of course, it has gone digital due to the pandemic, but there is a great Web site online at Earth Day DOT org 

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and their activities for children, activities for adults and their suggestions for what to do. And it's a very good website. So how encourage 

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everybody to take a look at it now. Looking at 2020 Earth Day, they created for primary goals. The first 

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is a great global cleanup. This is a worldwide campaign to remove billions of pieces of trash from rivers, beaches, parks, 

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lakes and trials. I'm sorry, trails. The second goal is Earth Challenge 2020. This 

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is the largest ever citizen science initiative. Teaching individuals the tools that they need to report on the health and well-being of 

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the environment, including water and air quality and the species around them. And this is really interesting because I'm a master gardener 

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and that's one opportunity to be a citizen science. And they teach you exactly what you need to do. And it's not anything particularly complicated or anything 

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. And it's really interesting. So I how encourage anybody that's interested in this to look into it. The third goal is food prints for 

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the future. And this is individuals, communities and partners across all sectors of society to address the food system 

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that we have. And when I think of this, the first thing that comes to mind are the confined animal food up 

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of organizations. And of course, this is for me, I think of the hub farms in North and South Carolina. And when it rains 

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, when it floods, both of which occur and the waste material and 

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the fertilizers are carried into the streams, into the estuaries, rivers, estuaries and bays. 

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Of course, then we have the algae bloom. The other thing is that in the United States, we eat so much meat 

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and it's farmed. And when you look at people in other countries who are hungry and you see the resources that we use 

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, the meat, the meat is quite a bit more expensive than the money that we pay in the store. In terms of the input that's needed 

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to grow the meat. So it's this is an odd thing to think about equality, fairness and food for people 

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. These farms, these huge farms like that are one of the largest sources 

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of climate change. And then the fourth goal is artists for the Earth. And this is a global campaign bringing artists 

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from around the world to use the power of their art to express our common humanity. And I'm looking forward to what comes out of that. That should be very interesting. 

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Talked about the history and of what's going on with Earth 2020. I've discovered 

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I'd like to talk about one person and this is something that I got from the latest Smithsonian magazine. So if you take it from there, you go 

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20 years ago, man named Douglas telling me but 10 acres of land in southeast Pennsylvania. He's an entomologist by education 

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. Tell me. Noted there were no chemical caterpillars present in his overgrown acreage. It had been used to of 

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farm for hay previously. Previous to when he bought it. But it had been allowed to grow up for three years. So as he explored further 

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, he realized almost all the plants on his land or invasive species had autumn olive in or yellow. Bittersweet soaks it that he couldn't even 

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walk through it. The Japanese honeysuckle, the Privett and the multiple floor rose and burning. Bush did not support did not support caterpillars 

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. Kelly was aware that while plants can frequently grow in a wide variety of environmental conditions, insects tend to be specialist 

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feeding and pollinating a narrow range of species, sometimes only one species. And even in the same species there may be major differences 

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in what can happen between invasive and foreign, between invasive and native plants. For example, imported 

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Norway maples versus native sugar maples. In the imported species, there may be 68 percent less food for the insects than 

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in the native plants. An example of the importance of this is seen in the Chickadee. The nestlings of a chicken day may consume 

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six thousand to nine thousand caterpillars before leaving the nest, all of which need to be found within 100 feet radius of the nest. 

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It should also be noted that while an invasive plant in its natural natural home may support hundreds of insects in its new 

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environment, it may go totally uneaten. And Paul, we're talking about invasive plants. I just have to bring up bread from payers. They were introduced in 1960 

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as a superpower, introduced to the United States in 1916 as a superpower. And it was thought to be sterile wealth. Cause now we 

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know it's anything but. And in Memphis, where I grew up, it is all over everywhere. And it really is quite pretty right at this 

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time of the year when they're blooming. But it has become a very invasive plant. It's our long streambeds. It's crowding 

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native plants. It has thorns. It's breeding with normal pears that we get Paris from. And it's 

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just really a mess. So in considering all of these things, tell me decided to do some research 

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on the relationship with invasive plants to insects and the food web. So to start, he did what anyone would do. He was reviewing the previous literature 

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on this, but there was no literature on invasive plants were light and the relation to the food web, there was literature on invasive plants, but nobody had looked 

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effect on the food web. So to start 

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five plots that he monitored for three years where he planted native plants 

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. And this was the moment when he realized that there was no research on invasive plants in the food web that he metamorphosis 

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from a specialist in the mating habits of the cucumber beetle to a person using native plants to rebuild the ecology 

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, the native acknowledging. So his research started in 2005. He got several grants. He planted native plants 

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in three different I'm sorry, three different sites and measured insect use over three years at each site. Out of the study came several research papers 

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and also led to a couple of books. One is titled Bringing Native Home, Bringing Nature Home How You Can Sustain World 

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Wildlife with Native Plants, and one that's being published this year titled Nature's Best Hope A New Approach to Conservation that starts 

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in Your Yard. Although most of us would not notice a decrease in insects, two species have recently received a lot 

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, a lot of notice. That would be monarch butterflies. That would be monarch 

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Although the majority of attention is focused on these two insects. Tell me estimates that worldwide decline in insects from the pre-industrial time to be 

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45 percent a loss of insects would cascade to forgo two frogs, lizards, birds and mammals from rodents. 

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through bears. An important point that tell me makes is that the ecosystem cannot be sustained just by national parks and 

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forests. According to Tell Me 

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, 86 percent of land east of the Mississippi is in private hands. Most of this land is either in cultivation or planted in a monoculture. Runs 

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in response. Tell me who's come up with the concept of Homegrown National Park? His goal is to repurpose half of America's landscape 

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for ecologically productive use. His goal? 20 million acres equivalent to nearly 10 Yellowstone parks. The intent 

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is to unite pieces of land into a network of habitat. How many points out that every little bit helps? At minimum, plant a tree 

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, the right tree. As an example, Coulombe points to a 35 foot tall whydo near his front door. He planted the oak from an 

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acorn. He was told that that was not a bright thing to do because it takes 300 years for a hideout tree to mature 

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. However, up to date, up to this day. Tell me has collected two hundred and forty two species of caterpillars from this one tree. 

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which will mature in two hundred and eighty years. In the last year alone, he collected one hundred new caterpillar species. Some of 

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which he had to look at. Now, for an entomologist to have to look up counsellor's species, that's a good thing. 

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Tell me focuses on caterpillars because a single caterpillar has the nutritional value of nearly two hundred aphids as 

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Townley says, they're soft. You can stuff them down the back of your offspring. Down the down the beak of your offspring without damaging 

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their esophagus. They contain carotenoids and build up pigments out of field, pigments up out of them. That's how 

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you make a profit from a tree warbler. For those of you who are not static, that the thought of watching caterpillars eat your plants. 

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Tell me recommends his 10 step program, step back 10 steps and all your insect problems go right 

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. Love it. Although tell me advocates for nature for native plants. It's important to note that across North America, 14 percent of plants 

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make 90 percent of the insect food the keystone species in trees. We have OAPs poplars, willows 

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, cherries, also hickory, chestnut elms and Birch's native plants. Recommended are Joe pie.. We 

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Aster, Marsh, Marigold, Skunk, Cabbage and snake. Well, snake weed. Sorry, I'm only familiar with the Joe pie. weed 

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and the aster, and I certainly encourage everybody to grow them because they're really nice 

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. So Talman came up with eight steps to read. We re wild w ilda America. Number one is shrink your 

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yard, shrink your lawn. Tell me recommends having the area devoted to lawns in the continental United States. This would reduce water 

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, pesticide and fertilizer use. Replace grass with plants that sustain more apple. Sorry 

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, edging closer situation there on the computer. So 

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replace grass with plants that sustain more animal life. He says every little bit of habitat helps number twos remove invasive 

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plants. Introduced plants sustain less animal diversity than natives do. Worse, some exotics crowd out indigenous flora. Notable 

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offenders, Japanese Honeysuckle, Oriental, bittersweet multi-, flora, rose and kudzu. I think if they eliminated native 

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invasive plants in Jackson County, there are places that would have no plants whatsoever. Privett is so invasive here in 

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Moxa is another one that I see a lot just around. Right? Crab live create nomos. Those native caterpillars dropped from a tree's 

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canopy to the ground to complete their life cycle. Put mulch or native ground cover such as Virginia Creeper, not English shy around 

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the base of a tree to accommodate the insects. Birds will benefit as well. Moths and butterflies equip outdoor lights with motion sensors 

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, white lights blazing on. Light can disturb animal behavior, L.E.D. devices use less energy and yellow light attracts fewer flying insects. 

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plant keystone species. I mentioned those already. We have native OAP Cherry, Cottonwood, Willow and birch 

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. Excuse me. Welcome pollinators, goldenrod, native willows, asters, sunflowers, evening primrose and ballots are among 

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the plants that support our beleaguered native bees. 

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7 is 5 mosquitoes with bacteria, inexpensive packets containing beatie or bacillus Thring Genesis can be placed 

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in drains and other web sites where mosquitoes hatch. Unlike pesticide sprays, the bacteria inhibit mosquitoes, but not other insects. 

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Avoid harsh chemicals, dig up or church weeds on hard scaping or douse with vinegar. Discouraged crab grass by mowing the lawn three inches high 

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. So I think he has some great steps that pretty much anybody could take advantage of. 

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And I'd like to just think about turn now to thinking of Mother Earth as a healer. Many of the ancient religions 

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worshipped a mother, godless or mother, a mother goddess or mother earth. Particularly now when we are in such an extreme 

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, stressful situation in the world, being in nature can be very comforting. Most of you know, I'm an avid gardener. And as time has worn 

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on lately, being at home and out of doors has really helped me. This particular time of the year, when my forest floor is carpeted and some flowers 

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there, Violet standalones, Trillium and Phlox and many other plants that I don't know what they are. Flowers everywhere is my favorite 

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time. I'm sure you all have a favorite place from nature, and I'd like you to think about it for just a minute and 

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break the comfort that nature can provide for you. 

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I'd like to thank you all for joining me today. I'd like to close with another John Muir. Quote, The sun shines not 

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on us, but in us. The rivers flow not past but through us. Thrilling, tingling, vibrating every fiber and soul 

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, the substance of our bodies, making them glide and seeing the trees wave and the flowers bloom in our bodies as well as our souls. 

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And every birdsong wind song and tremendous storm song of the wrongs in the heart of the mountains is our song, our very own and sings 

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our love. Thank you 

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. Thank you, Norma. 

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Still struggling. Here we go again. We 

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can't pass it. Pass the plate. So if I put on the order service that if you aren't willing to make an offering that 

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checks can be mailed to you. UCC at 31 West First Street on its could fill 3 8 5 0 1. We have one more hill 

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. So Jennifer, if you will begin the 

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we celebrate this wave of life 

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as we come to the close of our service. 

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We are going to now extinguish our chalice on another SFE. People that had litten can't. Lit candles and chalices. So if you'll 

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while muted, say it loud and proud. We extinguished this flame. But not the light of truth. The warmth of community or the fire of commitment. 

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These we carry in our hearts. Until we are together again. 

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And my closing words for you today are teach your children 

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. Teach your children what we have taught our children, that the earth is our mother. Whatever befalls the earth people. So children of 

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Earth, if men spit upon the ground, they spit upon themselves. This we know the earth does not belong to us. We 

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belong to the earth. This we know all things are connected. Like the blood which unites one family. All things are connected 

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. Whatever befalls the earth befalls the children of the earth. We did not weave the web of life. We are merely a strand in it. 

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Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves.