UUs and members of Elders Climate Action have been busy with the UU Project Drawdown Initiative 2021. As Unitarian Universalists, we know there are many paths to truth. Similarly, there are many paths to climate action. The UU DD initiative offers a clear path towards climate justice rooted in science-based, and solutions-oriented actions, mobilizing teams […]
Turn LEARNING into Drawdown Actions while hearing from fellow UU friends & activists. RSVP for the Zoom link to all the presentations below. [Start times are shown in Eastern Standard Time] Be sure to Select and Log your Actions so they count towards our 10,000 Action Goal – Log them in your Drawdown EcoChallenge Account. […]
While the climate crisis is global, taking action locally is one of the most effective ways to create a lasting impact. The Strengthening Local Climate Commitments (SLCC) campaign is a powerful avenue for UUs to create a just transition through supporting ambitious climate commitments and holding officials accountable through civic engagement and partnership. By working […]
What if we all started talking — going from neighbor to neighbor, community to community, business to business — and collectively opening our selves to the reality that climate change is an urgent crisis that demands urgent action? Your UU colleagues, trained as Climate Reality Leaders are doing just that. On Wednesday, November 20th, 2019, […]
In April 2019, UU Ministry for Earth and Universalists for Social Justice (UUSJ) partnered to hold a letter writing advocacy campaign in its Spring for Change: a Season of Sacred Activism program, with a goal of collecting 600 letters. On May 14th, 2019, twenty UUSJ Advocacy Corps volunteers delivered 850 letters from 29 congregations in […]
Throughout the month of February, the United States House Committees on Natural Resources; Science, Space, & Technology; and Energy & Commerce held numerous special hearings related to climate change. Doris Marlin, a member of All Souls Church Unitarian in Washington D.C. and the Green Sanctuary Program Advisory Board, attended many of these hearings and offers […]
And why not? The youth have the most at stake at the United Nations Framework Convention of Climate Change (UNFCCC) COP 24 climate talks, so their summary statement of what the COP process needed was no surprise. This message was delivered by a confident Asian woman as her peers surrounded her with determination. They assured […]
