How to Become a MEC Member
Anyone can become a member of the Mendocino Environmental Center, given they have energy to contribute to a collective of people that actually desire positive change, and they’re willing to deal with their own issues within community along the way. Becoming a member is the easy part; it is what one does with the membership that actually creates change. To become a member, all you have to do is stop by our office at 106 W. Standley St. and pick up a “Membership Application“. You can also download one online here, then send it in with your donation of $35, 5 Time Dollars, or the accumulation of 5 hours of community service per year at the MEC.
What Does Membership Mean?
What does it mean to be a MEC member? It means many things, most of which can be newly determined as we continually think of them in new ways. It may mean that you’re heart drives you toward environmental restoration, so you start a project out of the MEC that cleans up waterways or polluted areas, or you help out with the Russian River Cleanup. It could mean you’re a student learning how to edit audio materials for the KMEC Radio News Team, who has recorded hours of material and would love the help in organizing it. It could mean you’re organizing a series of nature hikes in Mendocino County in order for folks to get a real idea of the rare beauty present in this county. It could also mean you are the new volunteer coordinator at the MEC, and you are loving using your ability to connect people with tasks that are meaningful to them.
Being part of the MEC means all that, and much, much more. It is up to its members, individually, but especially collectively, to further decide and create what the MEC is. The MEC is community clubhouse, rendezvous point, and social networking station, it is potluck gathering site, school house, and radio station, it is community voice expressed, and quietly acknowledged with heart. It is a place where we can now gather to do all this good work that needs doing, have those important conversations, and record relevant information. Let us all now use this resource as clubhouse, meeting room, radio, and sanctuary, for the greater common good, that continually looks like all of us working together. Join us in our efforts, join us in your efforts, the ones you are working on that you bring to the MEC, and together we will indeed be victorious.