Webinar: Planning the Energy Future of your Congregation

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Join the Interfaith Power & Light, the United Church of Christ, and other faith partners in learning about benchmarking your facilities’ energy use, so that your congregation can cut energy costs and care for creation. This is the first step…

Movie Screening: The Ants and the Grasshopper

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Join us online for a free screening of an acclaimed documentary that follows the life of the inspiring Anita Chitaya. After successfully confronting challenge after challenge in her home country of Malawi, Chitaya comes to the United States faced with…

Getting Ready for Earth Sunday: Resources for Congregations

Many churches celebrate God's creation on the Sunday closest to Earth Day (April 22nd). It is an opportunity to not only address some of the most pressing issues faced by our world today, but to also give people a vision…

What’s Possible?: Earth Day Stories of Hope

On April 22nd, the United Church of Christ will inaugurate an annual Earth Day summit to lift up, celebrate, and further ministries dedicated to caring for God's creation. This two and a half hour digital event will feature a keynote…

Seeing through the Smoke: Wildfires, Climate, and a Path Forward

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How can we find a path forward in addressing the wildfires that have created a landscape of crisis in our climate changed world? This webinar will feature three leading thinkers and practitioners in answering this question. John Vaillant has recently…

Climate Hope Cards Prayer Service

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Join us for a brief online prayer service as we enter into the final week of collecting Climate Hope Cards to deliver to Washington, DC in September. Climate Hope Cards is an effort to strengthen EPA protections so that we…

The Climate Strike Movement 5 Years Later

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Five years have now passed from when Greta Thunberg and soon others went on strike from school to launch a movement that expanded and reverberated around the world. The movement continues as organizers prepare for the March to End Fossil…

From Greenwashing to Environmental Justice

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The United Nations Charter declares that one of its central mandates is "to employ international machinery for the promotion of the economic and social advancement of all peoples." Despite this, the upcoming UN Climate Change Conference (COP28) transparently reveals a…

Primary Season: Prioritizing Climate Solutions

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In reference to the prospects of progressive candidates in 2024, recent headlines have highlighted a "waning enthusiasm" among Black, Hispanic, and young voters. Among voters concerned about the climate crisis, dissatisfaction and anger have arisen as fossil fuel projects in…

Black History: Unsung Heroes of the Environmental Justice Movement

Livestream

For Black History Month, we will celebrate past environmental justice leaders and their historic contributions to the movement. We will lift up and reflect upon the lives of these champions for justice: Dana Alston, Cecil Corbin-Mark, Hazel Johnson, Patsy Oliver,…

Climate Action Assembly

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The UCC Council for Climate Justice will be hosting a Climate Action Assembly to hear updates on the three endeavors launched for this year: the Freedom from Plastics Campaign, the Electrification Checklist Initiative, and the Vote for Climate Hope Campaign.…

How Long Till Justice?: Flint, Jackson, and Red Hill

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In April, the 10th anniversary of the water crisis in Flint, Michigan will be marked. Yet, justice, in many forms and by many measures, has remained elusive. For instance, not a penny of the $626 million settlement has been distributed…