In March 2025, in our own version of March Madness, Chalice UUC voted octopuses as our favorite Pacific Ocean dweller. (As otter was our 2024 winner of favorite animal, otter was excluded from this year’s voting). We voted in five rounds over four weeks, whittling … read more.
How congregants are reducing plastic use
Collected ideas from our 9/22/24 water ritual service
Stop using plastic utensils when ordering out (3)
Don’t use plastic straws (8)
Use shampoo bars instead of liquid in plastic bottles
Stop using single use water bottles (10)
Reusable silicone storage bags rather than single-use ziploc … read more.
Five of us from Chalice recently went on a fascinating tour of the Escondido Resource Recovery Center. The facilities are state of the art and do an incredible job of recovering and using almost all of the refuse they receive in either the blue or … read more.
In March 2024, in our own version of March Madness, Chalice UUC voted otters as our favorite animals. We voted in six rounds over five weeks, whittling 64 animals down to the winner. The votes of children and youth ages 17 and younger were weighted. … read more.
Sixteen Chalice congregants attended our North County UU beach cleanup on Saturday, November 2, 2024 from 9-11 a.m. in Oceanside. This cleanup was led by the Surfrider Foundation.
The best way to support sea otters is to protect their ocean habitat. We ask Chalice congregants to commit to one of the following actions:
Attend a beach cleanup with Surfrider Foundation. Check Chalice’s calendar for our next coordinated beach cleanup.
Stop using plastic straws
Stop using single-use water/beverage bottles
Ask … read more.
The Marine Mammal Center in Sausalito, CA www.marinemammalcenter.org
The Marine Mammal Center advances ocean health through marine mammal rescue and rehabilitation, research, and education. This is the organization benefitting from our Sunday morning collection on September 22.
Sea Otter Savvy in Moss Landing, CA … read more.
Sea Otter Awareness Week is the last week of September (September 22-28 in 2024). You can look over the events and activities (many of them streamed online via Zoom or YouTube) on the Defenders of Wildlife website.
Sea otters are a keystone species, meaning they have disproportionate impact on their environment. They are found in shallow coastal waters of the North Pacific, from the coasts of California and Washington up to Alaska. You can read more about them and why they are … read more.
There are over a dozen different otter species in the world, but only two in North America—the sea otter and the North American river otter. The most obvious difference between them is that one lives in the ocean and the other lives in fresh water, … read more.
