Why Fair Trade Coffee?

Here's a video on fair trade coffee from Equal Exchange:



For a longer more in depth examination of the impact of fair trade, view this video from their website.

Prop 8 The Musical

See more Jack Black videos at Funny or Die

50th anniversary video

Full screen version available at Google Videos

The music - Thelonius Monk's Straight, No Chaser - ends half way through.

Long Range Planning Committe updates

The Long Range Planning Committee wants to keep you up-to-date on the progress of our planning effort. So, we'll be using this blog to provide access.

We've posted the results of the SWOT (Strengths-Weaknesses-Opportunities-Threats) survey that many of you took part in this spring.

• UU Billings SWOT results
  

Feel free to download it and take a look. It's in PDF format so you'll need Adobe Acrobat Reader. Use the comment feature to let us know what you think about this and future LRP postings.

Long Range Planning Committee
Donald Seibert, Chair
Woody Henry
David Leuthold
Janine Pease
Karen Peterson
Sue Reymer

Service Auction

Heads up – It’s the Billings UU Annual Service Auction:

The theme is Spring time in the Rockies
Let’s make this auction rock
Saturday, June 7, 2008 - 6:00 – 9:30
It’s the best party of year!! And you won’t want to miss it!!

We’ll have food to sell for dinner. This will give you time to look over the auction items and bid on the silent ones. Throughout the night, there will be activities and entertainment.

BUT FOR NOW:

WE NEED ITEMS TO SELL

This is the time when members offer up SERVICES TO SELL. It could be a hike, a offering of music, a boat ride, and offer of work, an offer to build something, an educational outing, a dinner, a dance, a white elephant that has some value – you can be creative and it’s only limited by your imagination

You can send in your offer in three different ways.

1. Call Katherine Jabs
2. Write an e-mail to Katherine
3. Sign up on the Billings UU Blog. Just click on Comments at the bottom of the post. Put your auction item in the box provided, choose an identity and click on Publish Your Comment. It will go to Sue and she will okay it and then it will appear on the blog later.

At any rate, if you send it to me I will put in on the blog and then you can all check the blog from time to time to see what items are being offered.. Thank you Sue for making this available!! This will help us all get our technology skills working.

Last year we had 162 items!!! PLEASE SEND IN YOUR LIST OF ITEMS BY JUNE 1.

THANKS TO ALL OF YOU WHO PARTICIPATE BY COMING, CONTRIBUTING AND BUYING. THIS IS OUR BIGGEST FUNDRAISER OF THE YEAR.

Elizabeth Gilbert videos

If you'd like to hear Elizabeth Gilbert talk about the book we're discussing this month, "Eat, Pray, Love," here are a couple of resources. The first is a half hour talk @Google Talks:



The second is from Borders Book Club

For Love of Water

Here's a clip from a new documentary, For Love of Water: