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April 2019 EcoChallenge
Between April 3 and 24, take the challenge to impact climate change using actions from Project Drawdown, the most comprehensive plan ever proposed to reverse global warming. Help The Community Church defeat ERUUF in a friendly competition! It's an easy and fun way to make a difference locally and globally. Learn more and join the challenge!
Write a Letter in support of a Green New Deal! Find talking points, addresses and a sample letter here: green_new_deal_letter_writing.docx
The climate change crisis is the biggest problem facing our world today. Unfortunately, the fossil fuel industry is a rich and powerful obstacle to combating it. But there are things we can do, and lots of local, national and global groups working on this problem from different angles.
April 2019 EcoChallenge
Between April 3 and 24, take the challenge to impact climate change using actions from Project Drawdown, the most comprehensive plan ever proposed to reverse global warming. Help The Community Church defeat ERUUF in a friendly competition! It's an easy and fun way to make a difference locally and globally. Learn more and join the challenge!
Write a Letter in support of a Green New Deal! Find talking points, addresses and a sample letter here: green_new_deal_letter_writing.docx
The climate change crisis is the biggest problem facing our world today. Unfortunately, the fossil fuel industry is a rich and powerful obstacle to combating it. But there are things we can do, and lots of local, national and global groups working on this problem from different angles.
- North Carolina Interfaith Power and Light (NCIPL) is a state organization that is working to "connect the faith voice of North Carolina around climate change, encouraging mitigation of the effects and resilient communities through its programs and engaging in the public policy process by advocacy with compassion." Visit their website and blog for lots of information about what's going on in the state, how to get involved, and resources for congregations. With NCIPL's help, ECO members have visited members of our legislature to advocate for clean energy. In 2016, ECO partnered with NCIPL to host the first ever Environmental Collaboratory for NC UUs, bringing representatives from eight UU congregations around the state to share ideas, build connections and learn from one another.
- NC Clean Path 2025: Achieving an Economical Clean Energy Future is a groundbreaking new report by engineer Bill Powers for NC Warn, showing how North Carolina can replace fossil fuels with local solar combined with battery storage to meet our electricity needs, while creating jobs and saving billions of dollars.
- 350.org is a worldwide grassroots organization founded by Bill McKibben, activist and author of The End of Nature. 350.org (350 refers to the "safe" upper limit of parts per million of carbon in the atmosphere) uses online campaigns, grassroots organizing, and mass public action to oppose new coal, oil and gas projects, take money out of the companies that are heating up the planet, and build 100% clean energy solutions that work for all. 350 Triangle is the local group network.
- Citizens’ Climate Lobby is a non-profit, non-partisan, grassroots advocacy organization focused on national policies to address climate change. They are currently working toward a climate solution called Carbon Fee and Dividend Policy, in which carbon fees would be collected on all fossil fuels and greenhouse gases at the point they enter the economy, placed in a trust, and paid out to every household as a monthly dividend. There are a number of NC chapters, including ones in Raleigh and Greensboro.
- For current science and images of climate change, visit http://climate.nasa.gov. To learn about some of the economic risks of climate change, visit http://riskybusiness.org.