For those who do not yet believe in climate change, here's a short article about scientists who don't believe in it (and those that do).

If you believe in climate change, what are you doing?

Last week my county made new laws to help make buildings more environment-friendly, but it can't be done by laws alone. There are things we can do.

Electricity is ( Read more... )

I was just watching an interview video, Bill McKibben: Will Hurricane Irene Be a Wake-Up Call about Climate Change? - thanks to the co-chair of our church's Green Sanctuary Committee for pointing it out. It looks like the media is not reporting on it, so we need to get the word out ourselves. I know there are skeptics - feel free to debunk ( Read more... )

UUs for Social Justice Green Sanctuary - My notes from 10-13-11

Climate Change - Paula Cole Jones, racial justice leader & new staff at JPD & "all in same boat" advocate (we sang Blue Boat Home), spoke about visiting Fiji & how they're negotiating to move due to the rising water.

1Sky speaker, Adi Nochur spoke about federal legislation & laws ( Read more... )

Check out the Unitarian Universalists for Social Justice at the DC Green Fest on Flickr (more photos tomorrow) and Twitter here. Thanks to artist Caryl Henry-Alexander and Jesse also set up and manned the booth all weekend. There's still a day left as I write this, so go on down - you can get in free if you have a cell phone to recycle ( Read more... )

I'm very upset about the situation in the Gulf. Stephen Colbert has a Fund to help the Gulf region, which is a good cause, but I want to join the efforts of some group or advocate for some bill that is fighting all off-shore drilling. Does anyone know of any? The latest news is "Spill’s damage could persist for decades" and "Obama to Reopen Oil ( Read more... )

That was the title of our service today by Isis. She said growing up as an African American girl in the DC area, her first inspiration was Captain Planet, a cartoon on TV for kids (intro on of Captain Planet on YouTube). She now works protecting the environment in a federal agency. A couple of quotes I liked ( Read more... )

Nice article about the environmental work my church is doing in the Gazette today: Air pollution gone with the wind: Camp Springs church embraces eco-friendly power, other ‘green' initiatives. More about our environmental efforts at my church's site. We've always been concerned about the environment as it's part of our principles, but we hope to do

Happy New Year! I can't believe it's 2010 ( Read more... )

I finally got a copy of the photo of the event I attended, the annual regional Unitarian Universalist Green Conference in Bowie, MD (below). A search on 350.org's photos on Flickr give me over 100 before our photo was submitted and I found that Rev. Fred Small wrote a song for it - lyrics and audio here. And if you haven't seen a video of the ( Read more... )

I have a church-related meeting from 8:30 am - Noon in Bethesda, so someone from Davies could spend the day with me or I could pick up someone in Mont. Co. to go with me ( Read more... )