UU Service to Celebrate Carson's 100th
Sunday May 27 10:30 am-1:30 pm UU Sunday Service to Celebrate Rachel Carson's 100th Birthday At First Parish Unitarian Universalist in Cambridge, 3 Church Street
Rita Arditti, cofounder of the Women's Community Cancer Project (WCCP), Kathleen Attfield, Staff Scientist at the Silent Spring Institute, and Wendy Irvine, UU Mass Bay District Green Sanctuary Program, will contribute to a service that celebrates Carson's life and explores current efforts to continue her work. Ms. Arditti will give details on creation of the public mural at 10 Church Street, painted by Be Sargent and commissioned by the WCCP in 1998, its topic is the Precautionary Principle and prominently features Rachel Carson as one of twelve social activist women who have died prematurely of cancer. Learn more about the mural here: http://www.peaceworkmagazine.org/pwork/0399/039904.htm Silent Spring Institute is a non-profit scientific research organization dedicated to identifying the links between the environment and women's health, especially breast cancer, http://www.silentspring.org/. The National UU Green Sanctuary Program assists a congregation to live out its commitment to the Earth by creating a sustainable life style for its members as individuals and as a faith community, http://uuministryforearth.org/grs_overview.htm
Rita Arditti, cofounder of the Women's Community Cancer Project (WCCP), Kathleen Attfield, Staff Scientist at the Silent Spring Institute, and Wendy Irvine, UU Mass Bay District Green Sanctuary Program, will contribute to a service that celebrates Carson's life and explores current efforts to continue her work. Ms. Arditti will give details on creation of the public mural at 10 Church Street, painted by Be Sargent and commissioned by the WCCP in 1998, its topic is the Precautionary Principle and prominently features Rachel Carson as one of twelve social activist women who have died prematurely of cancer. Learn more about the mural here: http://www.peaceworkmagazine.org/pwork/0399/039904.htm Silent Spring Institute is a non-profit scientific research organization dedicated to identifying the links between the environment and women's health, especially breast cancer, http://www.silentspring.org/. The National UU Green Sanctuary Program assists a congregation to live out its commitment to the Earth by creating a sustainable life style for its members as individuals and as a faith community, http://uuministryforearth.org/grs_overview.htm
Added on May 19, 2007 by RachelCarson100
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